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Author Heller, Gregory L., author.

Title Ed Bacon : planning, politics, and the building of modern Philadelphia / Gregory L. Heller
Edition 1st ed
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages)
Series The city in the twenty-first century
City in the twenty-first century book series.
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
Summary Ed Bacon is the first biography of the innovative and controversial urban planner who transformed Philadelphia in the mid-twentieth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Subject Bacon, Edmund N
SUBJECT Bacon, Edmund N
Bacon, Edmund N. fast
Subject City planners -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography
City planning -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
City planners
City planning
SUBJECT Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 20th century
Subject Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012037695
ISBN 9780812207842
081220784X
1322512272
9781322512273