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24 de jun. de 2015 · Design of cities. by. Bacon, Edmund N. Publication date. 1976. Topics. City planning, Space (Architecture), Harmony (Aesthetics) Publisher. New York : Penguin Books.
20 de may. de 1976 · A comprehensive review of historic and contemporary urban design strategies complete with wonderful hand drawn, pre CAD, diagrams and sketches with a compelling text written by former Philiadelphia city planner Ed Bacon and several younger urban designers.
A high-modernist design treatise which negotiates the phenomenological concerns of embodied spatial involvement with the holistic practices of city planning, tracing from antiquity to mid 20th-century the organizing forces at work throughout historical architectures.
In a brilliant synthesis of words and pictures, Edmund N. Bacon relates historical examples to modern principles of urban planning. He vividly demonstrates how the work of great...
Design of Cities, first published in 1967, is an illustrated account of the development of urban form, written by Edmund Bacon (1910–2005), who was the executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970.
In a brilliant synthesis of words and pictures, Edmund N. Bacon relates historical examples to modern principles of urban planning. He vividly demonstrates how the work of great architects and planners of the past can influence subsequent development and be continued by later generations.
Edmund Bacon provides a great analysis of form and movement in city design. He uses examples of Greek and Roman cities, Renaissance cities, old Europe cities, old Asian cities, modern cities in Asia and South America, and ultimately his own city, Philadelphia.
