Design of Cities
New York: The Viking Press [A Studio Book], 1974. Revised Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11.25 inches. 336 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Foreword to the Revised Edition. Foreword [to the original edition] Appendix. Notes on Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. This is a large, heavy book and if sent outside of the United States would require additional postage. Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005) was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author. During his tenure as the executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970, his visions shaped today's Philadelphia, the city in which he was born, to the extent that he is sometimes described as "The Father of Modern Philadelphia". Among other works, he authored the seminal urban planning book Design of Cities. It was during his tenure at the City Planning Commission that Bacon and his staff conceived and implemented numerous large- and small-scale design ideas that shaped today's Philadelphia. These design concepts became Penn Center, Market East, Penn's Landing, Society Hill, Independence Mall, and the Far Northeast. After Bacon's retirement from the Planning Commission, he served as vice president for Mondev U.S.A., was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Pennsylvania, and narrated "Understanding Cities", an award-winning series of documentary films describing the history and development of Rome under Pope Sixtus V, Paris under Georges-Eugène Haussmann, and Regency London under John Nash. More