Bacon suggests how simultaneous movement systems - the paths of movement of pedestrians, automobiles, and public transportation - can influence the growth of city form, and he takes a look at the role of movement systems in cities such as London, Rome, and New York.
"By interpreting the historical background in the context of general concepts of city planning and examining history s relevance to current planning projects as well, the author stimulates our understanding of the deeper forces at work behind the design of a great city. Bacon seeks to communicate the forces behind work as a city planner and the processes that result in construction on the ground. In forty new pages of text and color illustrations, Edmund N. JACKET TEXT: Design of Cities, praised by critics as the most significant and comprehensive study ever made the historical development of the modem city, hnt now been revised and enlarged. CONTENTS: The city as an act of will - Awareness of space as experience - The nature of design - Ways of perceiving one's self - The growth of Greek cities - Design order of Ancient Rome - Medieval design - Upsurge of the Renaissance - Design structure of Baroque Rome - Dutch interlude - 18th and 19th Century European design - Development of Paris - Evolution of Saint Petersburg - John Nash and London - Vitruvius comes to the new world - Le Corbusier and the new vision - The great effort: Brasilia - Peking - Simultaneous movement systems - Decision making - Putting the ideas to work: Philadelphia - Griffin and Canberra - City for humanity: Stockholm - Looking into the future.
New York: Viking Press, 1974, Revised edition, 336pp., dust-jacket torn and chipped around edges, original price $20.00, good large black cloth, light wear.
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