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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Becoming Philadelphia
    sub title: how an old American city made itself new again
  title info:
    title: Essays. Selections
  name:
    name part: Saffron, Inga
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Over the last twenty years, as Philadelphia emerged from a half century of decline, Inga Saffron has been the premier chronicler of the city's physical transformation. Through her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns on architecture and urbanism in the Philadelphia Inquirer, she has tracked the city's revival on an almost week-by-week basis. Once dismissed as an industrial has-been, the "next Detroit," Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing come-back in first decades of the 21st century. Yet, like other resurgent cities, it now finds itself grappling with the problems of success, gentrification, poverty, density debates, the unequal distribution of public services and the lure of privatization. A fearless crusader who is also a seasoned reporter, Saffron ranges beyond the usual boundaries of architectural criticism to explore how politics and money intersect with design and profoundly shape our everyday experience of city life. She is the watchdog of Philadelphia's built environment, a champion of its architectural heritage, an advocate for using design to foster democracy and equity. A born explainer, she makes architecture accessible and entertaining. She even manages to extract meaning from the most technical zoning debates. That combination of qualities helped win her the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2014 and the Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum in 2018. This volume culls the best of Saffron's work from the last twenty years. What emerges in these eighty pieces is a remarkable narrative of a remarkable time. The proverbial first draft of history, these columns tell the story of what a great city looked like as it shape-shifted before our very eyes.
  note: Inga Saffron.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-pa
  subject:
    topic: Architecture and society
    geographic: Pennsylvania
    geographic: Philadelphia
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Architecture and society
    geographic: Pennsylvania
    geographic: Philadelphia
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  classification: NA2543.S6 S228 2020
  classification: 720.9748/11
  identifier: 9781978817074
  identifier: 197881707X
  identifier: 9781978800632
  identifier: 1978800630
  identifier: 9781978800656
  identifier: 9781978800663
  identifier: 9781978800670
  identifier: 2019042544
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190923
    record change date: 20201020070613.0
    record identifier: in00004150960