Density Standards, ‘Commercial Hegemony’ and the Suburbanization of Philadelphia February 8, 2007
Posted by crd2 in Northwest, Suburbs.6 comments
The City Planning Commission’s 1960 Comprehensive Plan is a borderline schizophrenic document: one that casts the suburbs as siphoning population from the city while the city grows. The report estimates the 1980 population of Philadelphia to be somewhere between 2.4-3 million people. Thus the two structural features affecting how Philadelphians would live in 1980: the threat of the suburbs and an ever-increasing population.
