 | Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City Subjects: City planning -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Forecasting; Bacon Edmund N.; Bacon Edmund N. -- Political and social views; City planners -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography; Philadelphia City Pl; In his 1959 essay "Philadelphia in the Year 2009," Edmund Bacon described a city remade, modernized in time to host the 1976 Bicentennial celebration and Philadelphia World's Fair. Imagining Philadelphia assesses Bacon's vision, discussing what has been accomplished and what might have been. Scott Gabriel Knowles is Associate Professor of History and Politics at Drexel College and Associate Dean and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry at Pennoni Honors College. He is also author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
