DESIGN OF CITIES

EDMUND BACON
 BEHOLDING IS JUST NOT A MIRROR WHCH ALWAYS REMAINS THE SAME BUT A LIVING POWER OF APPREHENSION WHICH HAS
ITS OWN INWARD HISTORY AND HAS PASSED THROUGH MANY STAGES.
-HEINRICH WOLFFIN.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

ED BACON WAS AN AMERICAN URBAN PLANNER , ARCHITECT , EDUCATOR AND AUTHOR.
DURING HIS TENUSE AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PHILEDELPHIA CITY PLANNING COMISSION(1949-70), HIS VISIONS SHAPED
TODAYS PHILLY.
SOMETIMES CALLED THE FATHER OF MODERN PHILEDELPHIA.

PRINCIPLE OF THE BOOK- TO CONSIDER WHAT IS MEANT BY DESIGN IDEA

 THE CITY AS AN ACT OF WILL.
FORM OF A CITY- AN INDICATOR OF STATE OF THE CIVILIZATION.

DETERMINED BY MULTIPLICITY OF UNDERSTANDING OF INTERACTION = INSIGHT TO CREATE NOBLE CITIES.

DECISIONS MADE BY THE PEOPLE
WHO LIVE IN IT.

PURPOSE OF THE BOOK- TO EXPLORE THE NATURE OF THESE DECISIONS MADE IN THE PAST.
INFLUENCE OF THE CIRCUMSTANCE DURING DECISION MAKING.

MOVEMENT AND PUBLIC ACTIVITY RELATIVE EFFECTS OF EACH DECISION

IDEAS THAT EMERGED
EVOLUTION OF THE FORMS THAT HAVE BEEN PRODUCED.

AUTHORS HOPE TO DISPEL THE IDEA, BEYOND THE CONTROL OF HUMAN WILL AND THAT THEY RESPOND ONLY TO SOME
IMMUTABLE LAND.

DANGER OF SURRENDERING TO A MATHEMATICALLY EXPOLATED FUTURE, WHICH WILL ONLY BE AN EXTENSION OF WHAT EXISTED
BEFORE.
 AWARENESS OF SPACE AS EXPERIENCE

BASIC INGREDIENTS OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

SPACE(VOID) MASS

PROMINANCE TO MASS, TO AN EXTENT OF DESIGNER

BEING SPACE BLIND.

AWARENESS OF SPACE ENGAGES FULL RANGE OF SENSES AND FEELINGS.

REQUIREMENT OF WHOLE SELF.

IN ARCHITECTURAL TERMS PROGRESSIVE FROM THE EARTH AND EARTH MATERIALS INTO LESS TANGIBLE ELEMENTS OF UNIVERSE

AESTHETIC SATISFACTION OF A MAN SENSE OF CONNECTION WITH A SYSTEM GREATER THAN HIMSELF.