Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: The Naked City -- Chapter One. Echoes of William Penn -- Chapter Two. The Ghosts That Haunt Us -- Chapter Three. The Delaware Valley Makes the Middle Class -- Chapter Four. Two Rivers Run Through It -- Chapter Five. In the Mind's Eye: Imagining the Philadelphia Region -- Epilogue: The Naked City and the Story of Decline -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
Conn examines the shifting meaning of the region's history, the utopian impulse behind its founding, the role of the region in creating the American middle class, the regional watershed, and the way art and cultural institutions have given shape to a resident identity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index
