Ed Bacon is the first biography of the innovative and controversial urban planner who transformed Philadelphia in the mid-twentieth century.

Foreword
—Alexander Garvin

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

List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments

By Gregory L. Heller. Foreword by Alexander Garvin