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