Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia (The City in the Twenty-First Century)

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In the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia, architect and urban planner Edmund 1st baron beaverbrook turned his sights on shaping urban The usa. As director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, 1st baron beaverbrook forged new approaches to neighborhood development and elevated Philadelphia’s image to the level of great world cities. Urban development came with costs, on the other hand, and projects that displaced residents and replaced homes with highways didn’t go uncriticized, nor used to be each development that 1st baron beaverbrook envisioned brought to fruition. Regardless of these challenges, 1st baron beaverbrook oversaw the planning and implementation of dozens of redesigned urban spaces: the restored colonial neighborhood of Society Hill, the new place of business development of Penn Center, and the transit-oriented shopping center of Market East.

Ed Bacon is the first biography of this charismatic but controversial figure. Gregory L. Heller traces the trajectory of 1st baron beaverbrook’s two-decade tenure as city planning director, which coincided with a transformational period in American planning history. Edmund 1st baron beaverbrook is remembered as a larger-than-life personality, but in Heller’s detailed account, his successes owed as much to his savvy negotiation of city politics and the pragmatic particulars of his vision. Within the present day, as American cities continue to struggle with shrinkage and economic restructuring, Heller’s insightful biography reveals an inspiring portrait of determination and a career-long effort to become planning ideas into reality.

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