Architecture in Philadelphia;: A guide

"Covering all areas, from neighborhood to splendid (and not-so-splendid) skyscrapers, it describes buildings, explains importance of good planning. Center city buildings grouped for touring on foot. Fine guide."--"Philadelphia Inquirer" "The past decade has seen a phenomenal increase in architectural guidebooks to American communities. "Architecture in Philadelphia" is one of the best.... Though Philadelphia's legacy of architecture from four centuries is rich, famed, and well-documented, this book is the first full-scale architectural guide to the city. Teitelman, a psychiatrist, and Longstreth, an architect, have long been close students of the Philadelphia scene, and they provide reliable data.... [They also] deserve credit for good writing; their comments are literate and agreeably opinionated, sometimes tart, always unlike the bland praise characteristic of tourism promotion literature. The authors should also be commended for including descriptions of many interesting buildings off the beaten track, of unfamiliar location or function or period. The emphasis is on individual buildings--about 450 are listed--but a historical introduction and brief essays on the main sections of Philadelphia help to place the archi "Not the least appealing aspect of this new guide is the fidelity with which the photographs are reproduced.... Teitelman and Longstreth can be relied on for the accuracy and completeness of the information they give concerning the dates and architects of the buildings listed, including those for the later alterations and additions that are too often overlooked."--"The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography"