During the last quarter of the 20th century, many American cities were in a state of decline. The automobile paved the way for suburban sprawl and white flight, leaving cities with crumbling infrastructures and high crime rates. A growing collective interest in saving cities, however, has begun to turn the tide. In this poetic love song to the American city, Nathaniel Popkin helps readers see the city as a dynamic being with an unmistakable life cycle. Using anecdotes about the neighborhoods and residents of one city, Philadelphia, the author examines the ways that people have inherited, adapted to, and altered the living city.
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Embodies the quintessential human experience,
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This review is from: Song of the City: An Intimate History of the American Urban Landscape (Hardcover)
Song Of The City: An Intimate History Of The American Urban Landscape by Philadelphia planner and activist Nathaniel Popkin, is a highly recommended, anecdotal history of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the second half of the twentieth century. Using varied stories drawn from the lives of individual people to accurately reflect and bring to life this urban American community during its years of late 20th Century evolution, Song Of The City embodies the quintessential human experience which, taken as a whole, comprise the "soul" of the city.
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This review is from: Song of the City: An Intimate History of the American Urban Landscape (Hardcover)
This lovely, poem-like book is a set of little stories about various residents of Philadelphia's "borderline" urban neighborhoods- not fashionable areas like Center City and Chestnut Hill, but mostly not the "worst" areas either. Popkin's stories show what makes city life so attractive, especially the life of a close-knit, stable older neighborhood; I almost cried after reading the first couple of chapters.
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ON the street we feel the city's pulse. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
parochial city, infinite city Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Liberties, Baltimore Avenue, Germantown Avenue, African American, Blue Bell Hill, Broad Street, New York, Harry Shur, Forty-third Street, Lincoln Drive, Mount Airy, Ninth Street, Paul Tucker, Reese Street, South Street, Washington Avenue, Frank Hyder, House of Prestige, Ira Upin, Jesse Gardner, North Philadelphia, West Philadelphia, David Young, Sixty-sixth Avenue, City Paper New!
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ON the street we feel the city's pulse. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
parochial city, infinite city Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Liberties, Baltimore Avenue, Germantown Avenue, African American, Blue Bell Hill, Broad Street, New York, Harry Shur, Forty-third Street, Lincoln Drive, Mount Airy, Ninth Street, Paul Tucker, Reese Street, South Street, Washington Avenue, Frank Hyder, House of Prestige, Ira Upin, Jesse Gardner, North Philadelphia, West Philadelphia, David Young, Sixty-sixth Avenue, City Paper New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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