Saffron Inga Saffron

Becoming Philadelphia (eBook, PDF)

How an Old American City Made Itself New Again

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Produktbeschreibung

Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been-the "e;Next Detroit"e;-Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century. Over the past two decades, Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of the city's physical transformation as it emerged from a half century of decline. Through her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns on architecture and urbanism in the Philadelphia Inquirer, she has tracked the city's revival on a weekly basis.Becoming Philadelphia collects the best of Saffron s work, plus a new introduction reflecting on the stunning changes the city has undergone. A fearless crusader who is also a seasoned reporter, Saffron ranges beyond the usual boundaries of architectural criticism to explore how big money and politics intersect with design, profoundly shaping our everyday experience of city life. Even as she celebrates Philadelphia s resurgence, she considers how it finds itself grappling with the problems of success: gentrification, poverty, privatization, and the unequal distribution of public services.What emerges in these 80 pieces is a remarkable narrative of a remarkable time. The proverbial first draft of history, these columns tell the story of how a great city shape-shifted before our very eyes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978800670
• Artikelnr.: 72471914

Autorenporträt

INGA SAFFRON has served as the architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer since 1999 and has received numerous honors, including the Vincent Scully Prize, Harvard University's Loeb Fellowship, and the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. She formerly worked as an Eastern European correspondent, witnessing the destruction of Grozny and Sarajevo, which sparked her interest in urban renewal.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Suburbanizing the City                         
Chapter Two: The Architecture of Revival               
Chapter Three: Sweating the Small Stuff     
Chapter Four: Age of the Mega-Projects                     
Chapter Five: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back   
Chapter Six: Rebuilding                                
Chapter Seven: The Spaces between the Buildings              
Chapter Eight: Building the Equitable City  
Chapter Nine: Getting Around Town
Chapter Ten: Success and its Discontents
Index