Ed Bacon : Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia [1 ed.] 9780812207842, 9780812244908

In the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia,

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Ed Bacon : Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia [1 ed.]
9780812207842, 9780812244908

Ed Bacon is the first biography of the innovative and controversial urban planner who transformed Philadelphia in the mi

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In his 1959 essay "Philadelphia in the Year 2009," Edmund Bacon described a city remade, modernized in time to

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This major work by Laurence Lampert provides a new interpretation of modern philosophy by developing Nietzsche's vi

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Art and cultural production in Egypt during much of the last hundred years has operated against a backdrop of political

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The nation’s Latina/o population has now reached over 50 million, or 15% of the estimated total U.S. population of 300 m

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of

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Blue-Collar Conservatism examines the blue-collar, white supporters of Frank Rizzo—Philadelphia's police commission

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The uprisings of 2011, which erupted so unexpectedly and spread across the Middle East, once again propelled the armies

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