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Contents Introduction: Revisiting Edmund Bacon’s Vision for the City 1 1. Philadelphia in the Year 2009 8 Edmund N. Bacon 2. Salesman of Ideas: The Life Experiences That Shaped Edmund Bacon 19 Gregory L. Heller 3. A Utopian, a Utopianist, or Whatever the Heck It Is: Edmund Bacon and the Complexity of the City 52 Guian McKee 4. Staying Too Long at the Fair: Philadelphia Planning and the Debacle of 1976 78 Scott Gabriel Knowles 5. Philadelphia in the Year 2059 112 Harris M. Steinberg Afterword 145 Eugenie L. Birch Notes 151 List of Contributors 171 Index 173 Acknowledgments 177 This page intentionally left blank ...

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