 | Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia Subjects: Bacon Edmund N.; City planners -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography; City planning -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- HIstory -- 20th century; Ed Bacon is the first biography of the innovative and controversial urban planner who transformed Philadelphia in the mid-twentieth century. Gregory L. Heller is Executive Director of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority. His writing on city planning has appeared in Next American City, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Alexander Garvin is President of AGA Public Realm Strategists, Inc., and author of several books, including The American City: What Works, What Doesn't. |
