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The Philadelphia School and the Future of Architecture

Flourishing from 1951 to 1965 the Philadelphia School was an architectural golden age that saw a unique convergence of city practice and education all in renewal. And it was a bringing together of architecture city and regional planning and landscape architecture education under the leadership of Dean G. Holmes Perkins. During that time at the architecture school at the University of Pennsylvania (known as the Graduate School of Fine Arts or GSFA) Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi were transforming modern architecture; Romaldo Giurgola was applying continental philosophy to architectural theory; Robert Le Ricolais was building experimental structures; Ian McHarg was questioning Western civilization and advancing urban and regional ecology; Herbert Gans was moving into Levittown; and Denise Scott Brown was forging a syncretism of European and American planning theory and discovering popular culture. And in the city Edmund Bacon was directing the most active city planning commission in the country. This book describes the history of the school the transformation of the city of Philadelphia and the philosophy of the Philadelphia School in the context of other movements of the time and looks at what the Philadelphia School has to offer to architecture today and in the future all from the point of view of a student who was there. | The Philadelphia School and the Future of Architecture

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Philadelphia Patricians and Philistines 1900-1950

An unorthodox historian known and respected for his work on the grand conflicts of nations and civilizations John Lukacs has peopled a smaller canvas in this volume with seven colourful figures who flourished in Philadelphia before 1950. Their stories are framed by chapters that describe the city in 1900 and in 1950. The Philadelphians selected are a political boss Boies Penrose; a magazine mogul Edward Bok; an elegant writer Agnes Repplier; an impetuous diplomat William C. Bullitt; a lawyer George Wharton Pepper; a prophet of decline Owen Wister; and a great art collector Albert C. Barnes. The political boss was perhaps the most monumental political figure of his age. The magazine mogul was the most famous embodiment of the American success story during his lifetime. The now almost forgotten writer was the Jane Austen of the essay. The diplomat was the most brilliant of ambassadors. The terrible-tempered collector was a radical proponent of his unusual theory of art. Through these seven portraits Lukacs paints a picture of Philadelphia that is like all living things having the power to change out of recognition and yet remain the same. This work is a must read for all historians and Philadelphians. | Philadelphia Patricians and Philistines 1900-1950

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Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers Capital Class and Revolution 1830 1890

Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers examines the emergence of a new class of industrial entrepreneur and the world it confronted and shaped. Historians are reluctant to examine nineteenth-century American business leaders as a social group and this study helps remedy the defect. This book interweaves a history of the social and economic development of the largest centre of machine building in nineteenth-century America with the dramatic political narrative of sectional conflict Civil War and Reconstruction. Crossing and re-crossing the boundary between industrial and political history it throws new light on the process of industrialisation the Civil War conflict and the contested governance of nineteenth-century cities. While this study is firmly rooted in the experience of Philadelphia's machine builders its historiographic significance extends to many of the important themes of mid-century American history. By rejecting the conventional viewpoint that timid manufacturers were conservative supporters of the plantation South and insisting that workshop owners rejected slavery this study reinvigorates one of the Civil War's enduring interpretative battles. Of interest to scholars of business economic social labour education urban and Civil War history it will no doubt stimulate further debate and add a new angle to our understanding of nineteenth-century America. | Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers Capital Class and Revolution 1830�1890

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Quakers and Their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause 1754-1808

This volume explores the significant connections between the Quaker community and the abolitionist cause in America. The case studies that make up the collection mainly focus on the greater Philadelphia area a hotbed of the abolitionist movement and the location of the first American abolition society founded in 1775. Despite the importance of Quakers to the abolitionist movement their significance has been largely overlooked in the existing historiography. These studies will be of interest to scholars of slavery and abolition religious history Atlantic studies and American social and political history. | Quakers and Their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause 1754-1808

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Julian Abele Architect and the Beaux Arts

Julian Abele Architect and the Beaux Arts uncovers the life of one of the first beaux arts trained African American architects. Overcoming racial segregation at the beginning of the twentieth century Abele received his architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1902. Wilson traces Abele’s progress as he went on to become the most formally educated architect in America at that time. Abele later contributed to the architectural history of America by designing over 200 buildings throughout his career including the Widener Memorial Library (1913) at Harvard University and the Free Library of Philadelphia (1917). Architectural history is a valuable resource for those studying architecture. As such this book is beneficial for academics and students of architecture and architectural historians with a particular interest in minority discussions.

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Barista in the City Subcultural Lives Paid Employment and the Urban Context

Barista in the City examines the impact of paid employment and the contemporary neoliberal context on the subcultural lives of hipsters who are employed as baristas. This book’s analysis of Philadelphia baristas employed within specialty coffee shops suggests that the existing literature on the relationship between neoliberalism and urban subcultures needs to be amended. The subcultural participants discussed within previous studies lived intensely subcultural lives that were ultimately diminished due to processes of gentrification and displacement. The subcultural lives of the baristas investigated by the authors were greatly diminished from the very beginning. Neoliberal policies and structures of class race gender and gentrification intersected with their employment in ways that diminished their ability to establish lives that constitute a full-fledged subcultural alternative. The book presents a new theoretical perspective that could aid researchers who study urban subcultures. It also discusses the implications of its analysis for urban policy. This book is an essential update on previous scholarship pertaining to urban subcultures. It also contributes to existing literatures on baristas hipsters gentrification and service sector employment within the city. It is suitable for students and scholars in Urban Sociology Urban Studies Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Work. | Barista in the City Subcultural Lives Paid Employment and the Urban Context

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Out of My Great Sorrows The Armenian Genocide and Artist Mary Zakarian

Out of My Great Sorrows is the story of Philadelphia artist Mary Zakarian whose life and work were shaped by the experiences of her mother a survivor of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Written by Mary Zakarian's niece and nephew the narrative examines the complexities of the artist's life as they relate to many issues including ethnicity gender immigration and assimilation. Above all this is a story of trauma - its effects on the survivor its transmission through the generations and its role in the artistic experience. Zakarian painted obsessively throughout her life. As she gained recognition for her artwork she became increasingly haunted by her mother's untold story and was driven to express the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide in her art. Zakarian's attempt to deal openly with the issues of trauma and guilt caused conflicts in her relationship with her mother. These emotions became a driving force behind her art as well as the basis for her personal difficulties. By examining Mary Zakarian's life and art the authors bring new insights to the study of the Armenian experience. This moving story will inspire all those who have struggled to express themselves in the face of injustice and oppression. | Out of My Great Sorrows The Armenian Genocide and Artist Mary Zakarian

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Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological approach more fiercely than Randall Collins. The pieces in this exciting volume offer fresh and original insights into key aspects of Collins’ thought and of microsociology more generally. The introductory essay by Elliot B. Weininger and Omar Lizardo provides a lucid overview of the key premises this perspective. Ethnographic papers by Randol Contreras using data from New York and Philippe Bourgois and Laurie Kain Hart using data from Philadelphia examine the social logic of violence in street-level narcotics markets. Both draw on heavily on Collins’ microsociological account of the features of social situations that tend to engender violence. In the second section of the book a study by Paul DiMaggio Clark Bernier Charles Heckscher and David Mimno tackles the question of whether electronically mediated interaction exhibits the ritualization which according to Collins is a common feature of face-to-face encounters. Their results suggest that at least under certain circumstances digitally mediated interaction may foster social solidarity in a manner similar to face-to-face interaction. A chapter by Simone Polillo picks up from Collins’ work in the sociology of knowledge examining multiple ways in which social network structures can engender intellectual creativity. The third section of the book contains papers that critically but sympathetically assess key tenets of microsociology. Jonathan H. Turner argues that the radically microsociological perspective developed by Collins will better serve the social scientific project if it is embedded in a more comprehensive paradigm one that acknowledges the macro- and meso-levels of social and cultural life. A chapter by David Gibson presents empirical analyses of decisions by state leaders concerning whether or not to use force to deal with internal or external foes suggesting that Collins’ model of interaction ritual can only partially illuminate the dynamics of these highly consequential political moments. Work by Erika Summers-Effler and Justin Van Ness seeks to systematize and broaden the scope of Collins’ theory of interaction by including in it encounters that depart from the ritual model in important ways. In a final reflective chapter Randall Collins himself highlights the promise and future of microsociology. Clearly written these pieces offer cutting-edge thinking on some of the crucial theoretical and empirical issues in sociology today. | Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

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