06/14/2020
"Saffron tells us the stories behind the Barnes Foundation on the Parkway, the Cira Center, the Reading Viaduct, One Meridian Plaza, the failed Penn’s Landing Tram, the Linc, the Convention Center, the abandoned Disneyquest project, the Kimmel Center, the Schuylkill River Trail, the Divine Lorraine Hotel, the invasion of Jewelers’ Row by Toll Brothers, Temple’s proposed football stadium, the Comcast towers, Independence Mall — again, et cetera, et cetera."
Michael Lieberman reviews Pulitzer Prize winner Inga Saffron's 'Becoming Philadelphia.' The book, a selection of the architecture critic's Inquirer articles from the past 20 years, tells an intricate story about Philly's 10 year tax abatement and construction boom-- both its part in revitalizing the...