“Conflicting twists”: Philadelphia, Independence Park and Benjamin Franklin

Authors

  • Fernando Atique

Abstract

What are the possible relationships between a city, a theme park and a social player within the preservationist field? This article focuses on these entanglements, pointing out how changes in Philadelphia’s cityscape were processed so to highlight those events and buildings linked to the birth of the American nation, among which the actions of the diplomat, inventor, educator and founding father Benjamin Franklin. Hence, conflicts that are inherent to the preservation field can be tracked in a territory which, despite being seen as homogeneous, elicits dense relations with memory and the urbanity.

Keywords: United States; Independence Park; memory.

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Author Biography

Fernando Atique

Doutor em História e Fundamentos Sociais da Arquitetura e do Urbanismo pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Professor do Departamento de História e do Programa de Pós-graduação em História da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp). Autor, entre outros livros, de Memória moderna: a trajetória do Edifício Esther. 2. ed. São Carlos: RiMa, 2013.

Published

2016-06-17

How to Cite

Atique, F. (2016). “Conflicting twists”: Philadelphia, Independence Park and Benjamin Franklin. ArtCultura, 17(30). Retrieved from https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/artcultura/article/view/34823