(Germantown & Broad, facing south, 1911)
(Germantown & Broad, 2009)
Roughly 80 years before Elijah Anderson's narrative of Germantown Avenue in Code of the Street, Edward Hungerford took a walk down Germantown Avenue and wrote a similar narrative organized by space and place. The piece is entitled "William Penn's Town" and appears as the fourth chapter in The Personality of American Cities (1913).
As we move into comparison and contrast, it may be useful to read these two texts side by side, noting not only how the avenue has changed, but also how the two writers use space/place as an organizing principle, what they focus on in the environment, the relationship between story telling and analysis, and so on.
As we move into comparison and contrast, it may be useful to read these two texts side by side, noting not only how the avenue has changed, but also how the two writers use space/place as an organizing principle, what they focus on in the environment, the relationship between story telling and analysis, and so on.
Click this link to read Edward Hungerford's "William Penn's Town."
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