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Edmund Norwood Bacon
(1910–2005).Born in Philadelphia, PA, USA, he contributed to architecture and town-planning, especially in his native city, and was the author of numerous works on planning. An enthusiastic supporter ...
gentrification
The rebuilding, renewing, and rehabilitation of depressed areas of the inner city as more affluent families seek to live near to the city centre, trading space and quiet for access to the goods and ...
Historic Preservation.
The 1824 visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to Philadelphia's Independence Hall, recently threatened by demolition, stirred memories of the Revolutionary War and helped spark a preservation movement. ...
housing
Refers both to shelter in houses and to the provision of houses. It is the latter which has attracted historians, who have been particularly interested in tracing the provision of ...
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990).American architectural and town-planning critic. A disciple of Patrick Geddes, his views on urban planning originally stemmed from that source. His Story of Utopias (1922) was followed by ...
Mikhail Vasil'yevich Posokhin
(1910–89).Russian architect. He worked with Shchusev in the 1930s before establishing a partnership with Ashot Mndoyants (1909–66). Projects included the Moscow Council Building (1943–5) and the ...
preservation
Protection of food from deterioration by micro-organisms, enzymes, and oxidation: by cooling, destroying the micro-organisms and enzymes by heat treatment or irradiation, reducing their activity ...
Richard J. Daley
(1902–1976), mayor of Chicago.The grandson of Irish immigrants, Daley grew up in the Irish Catholic world of Chicago's South Side, attending daily mass and parochial schools. After high school ...
slum
An area of poor housing, characterized by multi-occupance and overcrowding; see McFarlane (2008) Env. & Plan. A 40, 1 on sanitation in Mumbai's informal settlements. Rao (2006) Int. J. Urb. & Reg. ...
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