Talk with Elizabeth Milroy, Drexel Professor of Art History and author of The Grid and the River: Philadelphia’s Green Places, 1682–1876
6:30 PM Light Refreshments 7 PM Reading
“The Grid and the River is magisterial. It is both an immensely erudite history and a compelling narrative of the shaping of Philadelphia, whose famous grid plan and immense park system are among the world’s most distinctive man-made environments. Philosophy, sociology, technology, politics, and art are all shown to have been actors in the making of Philadelphia’s spaces from the city’s founding until the end of the nineteenth century. In telling their complex story, Elizabeth Milroy has written the best general history of the city in a generation.” —David B. Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania
More info: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/9780271066769.html
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