Ed Bacon : planning, politics, and the building of modern Philadelphia /

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Ed Bacon is the first biography of the innovative and controversial urban planner who transformed Philadelphia in the mid-twentieth century.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Heller, Gregory L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:City in the twenty-first century book series.
Subjects:
Bacon, Edmund N.
1900-1999
City planners > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography.
City planning > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 20th century.
Urbanistes > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Artists, Architects, Photographers.
City planners
City planning
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > 20th century.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
Biographies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword / Garvin, Alexander
  • Preface
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1. Planning for a New Deal
  • Chapter 2. Toward a Better Philadelphia
  • Chapter 3. Planning for People
  • Chapter 4. The Architect Planner
  • Chapter 5. Reinvesting Downtown
  • Chapter 6. The Planner Versus the Automobile
  • Chapter 7. Articulating a Vision in a Shifting World
  • Chapter 8. New Visions of Philadelphia
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations and Sources
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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