Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again - Paperback
by Inga Saffron
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9781978817074ISBN-10:197881707XUPC:9781978817074Book Category:Architecture, HistoryBook Subcategory:Criticism, Urban & Land Use Planning, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCVQ0DPSKB
Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been--the "Next Detroit"--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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9781978817074ISBN-10:197881707XUPC:9781978817074Book Category:Architecture, HistoryBook Subcategory:Criticism, Urban & Land Use Planning, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCVQ0DPSKB
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.
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