Tri-Co Philly: History of Philadelphia Architecture and Urbanism

CITY B207 | Thursday 10:10 a.m.–1 p.m.
Jeffrey Cohen, Bryn Mawr College

City 207 explores Philadelphia’s architectural and urban evolution over five centuries. We’ll look very closely at buildings—both the extraordinary and the more normative in different eras—while also devising a firm orientation within historical geographies of growth, functional differentiation, and social patterning.

In this year’s special iteration as part of Trico in the City, we’ll take advantage of our presence downtown with walks almost every week to collectively interrogate our settings. We’ll visit both historical buildings and informational repositories, the latter serving as our laboratory for learning to tap archival sources in constructing new knowledge about buildings and urban change.