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Digging in the City of Brotherly Love

Author : Rebecca Yamin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300142641
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Digging in the City of Brotherly Love written by Rebecca Yamin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the modern city of Philadelphia lie countless clues to its history and the lives of residents long forgotten. This intriguing book explores eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Philadelphia through the findings of archaeological excavations, sharing with readers the excitement of digging into the past and reconstructing the lives of earlier inhabitants of the city.Urban archaeologist Rebecca Yamin describes the major excavations that have been undertaken since 1992 as part of the redevelopment of Independence Mall and surrounding areas, explaining how archaeologists gather and use raw data to learn more about the ordinary people whose lives were never recorded in history books. Focusing primarily on these unknown citizens-an accountant in the first Treasury Department, a coachmaker whose clients were politicians doing business at the State House, an African American founder of St. Thomas’s African Episcopal Church, and others-Yamin presents a colorful portrait of old Philadelphia. She also discusses political aspects of archaeology today-who supports particular projects and why, and what has been lost to bulldozers and heedlessness. Digging in the City of Brotherly Love tells the exhilarating story of doing archaeology in the real world and using its findings to understand the past.

First City

Author : Gary B. Nash
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812219422
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book First City written by Gary B. Nash and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2006-04-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering more than two centuries of social, economic, and political change, and offering a challenging, innovative approach to urban as well national history, First City tells the Philadelphia story through the wealth of material culture its citizens have chosen to preserve.

City of Neighborhoods: Philadelphia

Author : Joseph Minardi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780764360596
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book City of Neighborhoods: Philadelphia written by Joseph Minardi and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the 20 years that transformed Philadelphia into a city of neighborhoods, from Kingsessing to Wissahickon. At the turn of the 20th century, Philadelphia was the "workshop of the world," with builders toiling tirelessly to fill the staggering demand for housing. This golden age of construction resulted in whole new neighborhoods for the city's burgeoning population, transforming it into a place where immigrants could easily find jobs and a community to call their own. More than 200 vintage photos and postcards whisk readers back to the neighborhoods as they once were, exactly as our grandparents and great-grandparents knew them, before modern influences altered them beyond recognition. Arranged by neighborhood, this Philadelphia family album, a scrapbook for the city, is filled with rare vintage photographs and comprehensive information about the houses, the builders, the neighborhoods, and the people who lived in them.

Strange Philadelphia

Author : Lou Harry
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439904448
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Strange Philadelphia written by Lou Harry and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forgotten, and often bizarre, history of Philadelphia is unearthed in these quirky vignettes.

Discourse and Destruction

Author : Robin Wagner-Pacifici
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226869766
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Discourse and Destruction written by Robin Wagner-Pacifici and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface Acknowledgments 1: A Framework for Articulating Horror 2: What Is MOVE? 3: The Language of Domesticity 4: Bureaucratic Discourse: The Policy, the Plan, the Operation5: The Law and Its Apparatus: Speaking Warrants and Weapons 6: Decarcerating Discourse Notes Bibliography Index.

Social Capital in the City

Author : Richardson Dilworth
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592133460
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Social Capital in the City written by Richardson Dilworth and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first interdisciplinary work to examine "social capital" in a single city.

The Contagious City

Author : Simon Finger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801464005
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Contagious City written by Simon Finger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped to create new urban forms that combined the commercial advantages of a seaport with the health benefits of the country. The Contagious City details how early Americans struggled to preserve their collective health against both the strange new perils of the colonial environment and the familiar dangers of the traditional city, through a period of profound transformation in both politics and medicine. Philadelphia was the paramount example of this reforming tendency. Tracing the city's history from its founding on the banks of the Delaware River in 1682 to the yellow fever outbreak of 1793, Simon Finger emphasizes the importance of public health and population control in decisions made by the city's planners and leaders. He also shows that key figures in the city's history, including Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush, brought their keen interest in science and medicine into the political sphere. Throughout his account, Finger makes clear that medicine and politics were inextricably linked, and that both undergirded the debates over such crucial concerns as the city's location, its urban plan, its immigration policy, and its creation of institutions of public safety. In framing the history of Philadelphia through the imperatives of public health, The Contagious City offers a bold new vision of the urban history of colonial America.

Wicked Philadelphia

Author : Thomas H. Keels
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614231052
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Wicked Philadelphia written by Thomas H. Keels and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Thomas Keels tells many ribald stories in his book, "Wicked Philadelphia: Sin in the City of Brotherly Love," including various methods of body snatching and murder. --Marty Moss-Coane, WHYY-FM Prim and proper Philadelphia has been rocked by the clash between excessive vice and social virtue since its citizens burned the city's biggest brothel in 1800. With tales of grave robbers in South Philadelphia and harlots in Franklin Square, Wicked Philadelphia reveals the shocking underbelly of the City of Brotherly Love. In one notorious scam, a washerwoman masqueraded as the fictional Spanish countess Anita de Bettencourt for two decades, bilking millions from victims and even fooling the government of Spain. From the 1843 media frenzy that ensued after an aristocrat abducted a young girl to a churchyard transformed into a brothel (complete with a carousel), local author Thomas H. Keels unearths Philadelphia's most scintillating scandals and corrupt characters in this rollicking history.

The Planning of Center City Philadelphia

Author : John Andrew Gallery
Publisher : Center for Architecture
ISBN 13 : 9780979378706
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book The Planning of Center City Philadelphia written by John Andrew Gallery and published by Center for Architecture. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking guide and history of planning in Philadelphia, America's first capital. For tourists/architecture buffs.

Philadelphia Architecture

Author : John Andrew Gallery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781589881105
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia Architecture written by John Andrew Gallery and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated, comprehensive guide to Philadelphia's architecture will appeal to visitors, residents, and architecture enthusiasts.

Imagining Philadelphia

Author : Scott Gabriel Knowles
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205960
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Philadelphia written by Scott Gabriel Knowles and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Philadelphia's iconoclastic city planner Edmund N. Bacon looked into his crystal ball in 1959, he saw a remarkable vision: "Philadelphia as an unmatched expression of the vitality of American technology and culture." In that year Bacon penned an essay for Greater Philadelphia Magazine, originally entitled "Philadelphia in the Year 2009," in which he imagined a city remade, modernized in time to host the 1976 Philadelphia World's Fair and Bicentennial celebration, an event that would be a catalyst for a golden age of urban renewal. What Bacon did not predict was the long, bitter period of economic decline, population dispersal, and racial confrontation that Philadelphia was about to enter. As such, his essay comes to us as a time capsule, a message from one of the city's most influential and controversial shapers that prompts discussions of what was, what might have been, and what could yet be in the city's future. Imagining Philadelphia brings together Bacon's original essay, reprinted here for the first time in fifty years, and a set of original essays on the past, present, and future of urban planning in Philadelphia. In addition to examining Bacon and his motivations for writing the piece, the essays assess the wider context of Philadelphia's planning, architecture, and real estate communities at the time, how city officials were reacting to economic decline, what national precedents shaped Bacon's faith in grand forms of urban renewal, and whether or not it is desirable or even possible to adopt similarly ambitious visions for contemporary urban planning and economic development. The volume closes with a vision of what Philadelphia might look like fifty years from now.

This Used to Be Philadelphia

Author : Natalie Pompilio
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1681063123
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book This Used to Be Philadelphia written by Natalie Pompilio and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia is thick with American firsts. Some—including the first zoo, first hospital, first public library, first university, first computer—are well known. Others are not and are here to be appreciated: Girl Scout cookies were originally baked by a commercial bakery here and “American Bandstand” was born in a West Philadelphia TV studio. This Used to Be Philadelphia goes deep inside the buildings, monuments, and familiar sights of the city to uncover its rich history, layer by layer. This book will introduce you to the city’s first residents, the Lenni Lenape, the tireless workers who made this “the Workshop of the World,” and the current residents who love all of these stories as told through the spaces they have filled. Learn how buildings from the 1876 World’s Fair, the first to be held in the U.S., are used today. Appreciate the city’s creative adaptive reuse projects, including a former technical school turned office space with a rooftop bar and the railroad headquarters that’s now artists’ studios. Take a colorful tour of the city’s bygone days with local sisters Natalie and Tricia Pompilio. You’ll never look at an old building in Philadelphia the same way again.

The City Government of Philadelphia

Author : Wharton School
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City Government of Philadelphia written by Wharton School and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philadelphia

Author : Joseph E. B. Elliott
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439913005
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia written by Joseph E. B. Elliott and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia possesses an exceptionally large number of places that have almost disappeared—from workshops and factories to sporting clubs and societies, synagogues, churches, theaters, and railroad lines. In Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City, urban observers Nathaniel Popkin and Peter Woodall uncover the contemporary essence of one of America’s oldest cities. Working with accomplished architectural photographer Joseph Elliott, they explore secret places in familiar locations, such as the Metropolitan Opera House on North Broad Street, the Divine Lorraine Hotel, Reading Railroad, Disston Saw Works in Tacony, and mysterious parts of City Hall. Much of the real Philadelphia is concealed behind facades. Philadelphia artfully reveals its urban secrets. Rather than a nostalgic elegy to loss and urban decline, Philadelphia exposes the city’s vivid layers and living ruins. The authors connect Philadelphia’s idiosyncratic history, culture, and people to develop an alternative theory of American urbanism, and place the city in American urban history. The journey here is as much visual as it is literary; Joseph Elliott’s sumptuous photographs reveal the city's elemental beauty.

A Short History of the City of Philadelphia

Author : Susan Coolidge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the City of Philadelphia written by Susan Coolidge and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

June 30, 1915

Author : New York (N.Y.) Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book June 30, 1915 written by New York (N.Y.) Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philadelphia Divided

Author : James Wolfinger
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807878103
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia Divided written by James Wolfinger and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a detailed study of life and politics in Philadelphia between the 1930s and the 1950s, James Wolfinger demonstrates how racial tensions in working-class neighborhoods and job sites shaped the contours of mid-twentieth-century liberal and conservative politics. As racial divisions fractured the working class, he argues, Republican leaders exploited these racial fissures to reposition their party as the champion of ordinary white citizens besieged by black demands and overwhelmed by liberal government orders. By analyzing Philadelphia's workplaces and neighborhoods, Wolfinger shows the ways in which politics played out on the personal level. People's experiences in their jobs and homes, he argues, fundamentally shaped how they thought about the crucial political issues of the day, including the New Deal and its relationship to the American people, the meaning of World War II in a country with an imperfect democracy, and the growth of the suburbs in the 1950s. As Wolfinger demonstrates, internal fractures in New Deal liberalism, the roots of modern conservatism, and the politics of race were all deeply intertwined. Their interplay highlights how the Republican Party reinvented itself in the mid-twentieth century by using race-based politics to destroy the Democrats' fledgling multiracial alliance while simultaneously building a coalition of its own.