Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Inga Saffron, new book Becoming Philadelphia, author talk

Inga Saffron, the superlative architecture and urban design writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, who has been in the news of late because of her column "Buildings Matter Too," has just come out with a book, Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City Made Itself New Again.

It's a compendium of past columns ("Inga Saffron’s new book, ‘Becoming Philadelphia,’ collects her columns into a story of our city, renewing itself," PI)

The Free Library of Philadelphia is sponsoring a virtual author talk on Wednesday, June 17 at 7:30 p.m. People can register online.

Saffron received the Vincent Scully Award for excellence in architectural criticism, at the National Building Museum in 2018.

-- Presentation and Talk (video)

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