Please join us at the Center for Architecture and Design on Thursday, January 18, as we celebrate the second printing of Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City published by Temple University Press. Co-authors Nathaniel Popkin and Pete Woodall will talk about the book's themes and present a slideshow, with a Q&A to follow.
Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City delves into one of America’s greatest and yet least understood cities to reveal the physical and cultural intricacies of place, from the intimate to the monumental.
Written by Hidden City Daily co-founders Nathaniel Popkin and Peter Woodall, and photographed by one of America’s most lauded architectural photographers, Joseph E.B. Elliott, the book explores Philadelphia’s hidden character through its vivid layers and living ruins. Rather than a nostalgic elegy to loss and urban decline, Finding the Hidden City connects Philadelphia’s particularly accretive form to its idiosyncratic history, culture, and people. The journey here is as much visual as it is literary thanks to Joseph Elliott’s striking images.