Analysis of the Philadelphia Comprehensive Plan
Author : Charles F. Robinson
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Page : 694 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 1963
Category : City planning
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Author : Charles F. Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 1963
Category : City planning
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Page : 638 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 1979
Category : City planning
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Author : Gregory L. Heller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2013-03-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 081220784X
In the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia, architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon turned his sights on shaping urban America. As director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, Bacon forged new approaches to neighborhood development and elevated Philadelphia's image to the level of great world cities. Urban development came with costs, however, and projects that displaced residents and replaced homes with highways did not go uncriticized, nor was every development that Bacon envisioned brought to fruition. Despite these challenges, Bacon oversaw the planning and implementation of dozens of redesigned urban spaces: the restored colonial neighborhood of Society Hill, the new office development of Penn Center, and the transit-oriented shopping center of Market East. Ed Bacon is the first biography of this charismatic but controversial figure. Gregory L. Heller traces the trajectory of Bacon's two-decade tenure as city planning director, which coincided with a transformational period in American planning history. Edmund Bacon is remembered as a larger-than-life personality, but in Heller's detailed account, his successes owed as much to his savvy negotiation of city politics and the pragmatic particulars of his vision. In the present day, as American cities continue to struggle with shrinkage and economic restructuring, Heller's insightful biography reveals an inspiring portrait of determination and a career-long effort to transform planning ideas into reality.
Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library
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Page : 822 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 1975
Category : City planning
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Author : Carolyn Adams
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 1993-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781566390781
Philadelphia is a patchwork of the political and economic changes dating back to 1683. Having been re-created repeatedly, each era of the city's development includes elements of the past. In this book, the authors describe the city's evolution into a post-industrial metropolis of old communities and newly expended neighborhoods, in which remnants of 19th-century industries can be seen in today's residential areas. This book explores a wide range of issues impacting upon Philadelphia's post-industrial economy--trends in housing and homelessness, the business community, job distribution, a disintegrating political structure, and increased racial, class, and neighborhood conflict. The authors examine the growth of the service sector, the disparity in the city's urban renewal program that has enriched center city but left most neighborhoods in need, and they evaluate the realistic prospects for regional solutions to some of the problems facing Philadelphia and its suburbs. Author note: Carolyn Adams teaches in the Geography and Urban Studies Department at Temple University. David Bartelt teaches at the Institute for Public Policy Studies at Temple University. David Elesh is Professor of Sociology, Temple University. Ira Goldstein teaches at the Institute for Public Policy Studies, Temple University. Nancy Kleniewski teaches Sociology at State University of New York, Geneseo. William Yancey is Professor of Sociology, Temple University.
Author : Theodora Kimball Hubbard
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Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Cities and towns
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Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library and Information Division
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Page : 970 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 1972
Category : City planning
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Author : United States. National Water Commission
Publisher :
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Philadelphia (Pa.). Department of City Transit
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Page : 138 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Local transit
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Author : Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Publisher :
Page : 1292 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Bible
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