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Book Review: Leading the Inclusive City: Place-Based Innovation for a Bounded Planet

helped design and ensure mass transit access to recreational areas and develop the bucolic suburb of Ridley Park in nearby Delaware County, using “a broad complement of spatial and institutional strategies” (181) that would become mainstays of land use planning. The family’s network of civic and planning connections extended to early innovators and intellectuals associated with the planning profession, including Frederick Winslow Taylor, who was hired to “rationalize” labor productivity at Midvale Steel in the 1880s, and English utopian socialist Robert Owen, whom they helped bring to Philadelphia for a series of lectures. Eventually, as corporate modes of capitalism undermined Philadelphia’s industrial foundations in the early twentieth century and as the family sold its companies to larger national corporations, Horace Sellers helped redefine Philadelphia by celebrating its revolutionary past and historical significance, setting the stage for regional economic changes that would come later. Some readers will finish the book feeling their subfield of city and regional planning has not been thoroughly covered; regional economic development specialists will start with a greater familiarity with the foundations of the family’s story than transportation planners, housing experts, community development specialists, or urban designers do. But planners in each of these areas will find examples, connections, and references that draw them in professionally and illuminate the issues and histories that link them to their planning colleagues of all specialties. In delving into the lives of the Sellers family, we come away with a rich understanding of the specifics of industrial development in Philadelphia. But we also put the book down with a deeper appreciation for the broad economic and institutional forces that have made and then transformed the modern American city.