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Next American Vanguard 2010

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Ask an Urban Historian

Scott Gabriel Knowles is assistant professor of history and director of the Great Works Symposium at Drexel University. He is the editor of a forthcoming book on the city planning work and legacy of Edmund Bacon, and is currently writing a book titled Experts in Disaster: A History of Risk and Authority in the Modern United States.

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