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Imagining Philadelphia : Edmund Bacon and the future of the city / txt edited by Scott Gabriel Knowles. - 178 p. ill., maps 23 cm. book

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Philadelphia in the year 2009 / Edmund N. Bacon -- Salesman of ideas : the life experiences that shaped Edmund Bacon / Gregory L. Heller -- A utopian, a utopianist, or whatever the heck it is : Edmund Bacon and the complexity of the city / Guian McKee -- Staying too long at the fair : Philadelphia planning and the debacle of 1976 / Scott Gabriel Knowles -- Philadelphia in the year 2059 / Harris M. Steinberg -- Afterword / Eugenie Birch.

ISBN: 9780812220780

LCCN: 2009008430

Subjects--Personal Names:
Bacon, Edmund N.
Bacon, Edmund N.--Political and social views.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Philadelphia City Planning Commission--Biography.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
City planning--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--20th century.
City planning--United States.--Case studies.
City planners.--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Philadelphia Pa.--Forecasting.

LC Class. No.: HT168.P43 / E56 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 307.1/21609748110904