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Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia

We've developed an expansive list of recommended reading on topics related to local history, architecture, social and cultural history, and preservation theory. Additionally, we've solicited book suggestions from our Preservation Alliance Tour Guides, and have some fun ideas for the architect or preservationist in your life.

The Rings of Saturn
Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape
Building Ghosts: Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Still's Underground Rail Road Records: With A Life Of The Author
I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture
Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
Metropolitan Paradise: The Struggle for Nature in the City: Philadelphia's Wissahickon Valley, 1620-2020
Suburb in the City: Chestnut Hill, Phildelphia, 1850-1990
Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape: Deep Roots, Continuing Legacy
The Planning of Center City Philadelphia: From William Penn to the Present
The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960
Wanamaker's: Meet Me at the Eagle
Gimbels Has It!
Dark History of Penn's Woods: Murder, Madness, and Misadventure in Southeastern Pennsylvania Real Philly History, Real Fast: Fascinating Facts and Interesting Oddities about the City's Heroes and Historic Sites Philadelphia Builds: Essays on Architecture
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Architectural History of Philadelphia and Local Authors

Frank Furness: Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines The Houses of Louis Kahn You Say to Brick
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Local Architects

Preservation and Social Inclusion A Richer Heritage: Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First Century Historic Preservation, Third Edition: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice
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Preservation History and Theory

Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840 Black Charlestonians: A Social History 1822-1885
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Social and Cultural History

The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926 Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
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Tour Guides Suggestions

Barn: Preservation and Adaptation, the Evolution of a Vernacular Icon (Revised) Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic Architecture in the United States
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General Architectural History

Crossing the Line Fever 1793 Philadelphia Fire
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Historical Fiction Set in Philadelphia

Segregation by Design Design After Decline: How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities The University & Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets
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Urban Development

Brick: Who Found Herself in Architecture Home Prairie Boy: Frank Lloyd Wright Turns the Heartland Into a Home
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Books for Kids and the Young At Heart

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