Imagining Philadelphia: Travelers' Views of the City from 1800 to the Present
- ISBN-10
- 0812233778
- ISBN-13
- 9780812233773
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 204
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996-08-29
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Author
- Philip Stevick
Description
Some travelers visited the classic destinations of earlier times, such as the great waterworks complex, and some reacted generally to the tone and temper of the city. Together, these accounts fall into patterns that often convey a mythic reading of the city, as a place of uncommon order and symmetry, for example, or a place of great torpor and dullness, or a city extraordinary for the way in which elements of wilderness interpenetrate the metropolitan core.
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