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Philadelphia - Finding the Hidden City (Hardcover)
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Philadelphia - Finding the Hidden City (Hardcover)
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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.
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