{"product_id":"ed-bacon-9780812223590","title":"Ed Bacon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEd Bacon is the first biography of the innovative and controversial urban planner who transformed Philadelphia in the mid-twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gregory Heller's \u003ci\u003eEd Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia\u003c\/i\u003e provides a thorough, engaging, and compelling story about the career of Philadelphia's most prominent urban planner. . . . The book's content is extremely well documented and provides the reader with a new perspective on many of the city's rather famous midcentury plans and development projects. Aside from the rich historical narrative, which is valuable in and of itself, the book succeeds at making clear connections to contemporary planning practice. . . . A terrific contribution to the literature on planning history, the politics of urban planning and development, and the value of physical planning.\" * Stephanie Ryberg-Webster, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Planning Education and Research\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Heller's book gives us a fascinating-and sympathetic-account of Bacon's accomplishments.\" * \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Edmund Bacon, probably the most relentless and determined of all planners, believed that the most important and difficult thing to do was deciding what to advocate and that the trick in making that decision was selecting something that you could bring to fruition. . . . We are fortunate in having this stunning biography by Gregory Heller. The result is an engrossing story explaining how modern Philadelphia took shape.\" * From the Foreword, by Alexander Garvin *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e —Alexander Garvin\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Planning for a New Deal\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Toward a Better Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Planning for People\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Architect Planner\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Reinvesting Downtown\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Planner Versus the Automobile\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Articulating a Vision in a Shifting World\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. New Visions of Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405704110423,"sku":"9780812223590","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812223590.jpg?v=1730493337","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ed-bacon-9780812223590","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}