Book chapter
Philadelphia in the Year 2059
Imagining Philadelphia, pp 112-144
31 Dec 2010
Abstract
For nearly 300 years, Philadelphia had a brilliant run.
From its founding in 1682 by William Penn as a proprietary colonial capital through the heady, federally funded urban renewal days at the end of World War II, Philadelphia was often at the forefront of national and international trends in city planning, public works, technology, industry, and the applied arts. Straddled by two great rivers, the Delaware and the Schuylkill, Philadelphia’s rise to prominence was fueled by the confluence of ideals, leadership, natural resources, and location. Powering America’s ascendancy as the ‘‘workshop of the world’’ from the end of the Civil War to the dawn of the Cold War, a prosperous and expanding Philadelphia was at the epicenter of the American experiment. [1st paragraphs]
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- Title
- Philadelphia in the Year 2059
- Creators
- Harris M Steinberg - Drexel University, Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
- Publication Details
- Imagining Philadelphia, pp 112-144
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press; Philadelphia
- Number of pages
- 33
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
- Other Identifier
- 991021903712504721