Philadelphia in the year 2009 / Edmund N. Bacon -- Salesman of ideas : the life experiences that shaped Edmund Bacon / Gregory L. Heller -- A utopian, a utopianist, or whatever the heck it is : Edmund Bacon and the complexity of the city / Guian McKee -- Staying too long at the fair : Philadelphia planning and the debacle of 1976 / Scott Gabriel Knowles -- Philadelphia in the year 2059 / Harris M. Steinberg -- Afterword / Eugenie Birch
Summary
In his 1959 essay "Philadelphia in the Year 2009," Edmund Bacon described a city remade, modernized in time to host the 1976 Bicentennial celebration and Philadelphia World's Fair. Imagining Philadelphia assesses Bacon's vision, discussing what has been accomplished and what might have been
