Building Ghosts: Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City
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Written by Molly Lester, with photographs by Hidden City Editorial Director and Chief Photographer Michael Bixler, Building Ghosts combines photography, building histories, and essays that make visual connections to hidden themes of community heritage, dislocation, demolition, and neighborhood change.
“Molly Lester and Michael Bixler mine the crevices and seams of Philadelphia’s rowhouse blocks for signs and stories of the past. The surprising result of their effort is a collection of short essays and photos that reads like an alternative history of the city. In Building Ghosts , the walls really do get to speak.”—Inga Saffron, Pulitzer Prize–winning Philadelphia Inquirer Architecture Critic
- Hardcover
- 288 pages
- 7.875 x 10.5
- 120 color photos
- Publication: Nov 2024
About the Author(s)
Molly Lester is Associate Director of the Urban Heritage Project at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, and the coauthor of Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect.
Michael Bixler is the Editorial Director and Chief Photographer of Hidden City Philadelphia.
