Item #011286 What of the City? America's Greatest Issue -- City Planning What it is and How to go About it to Achieve Success. WALTER D. MOODY.

What of the City? America's Greatest Issue -- City Planning What it is and How to go About it to Achieve Success

Chicago: McClurg, 1919. First edition. 8vo; 441 pp.; illustrated from photographs, drawings., plans, and maps, some folding. Ex-library copy, with plate to front pastedown and call numbers to spine; else a good copy in original gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Moody was Managing Director of the Chicago Plan Commission and its great publicist, ceaselessly promoting Burnham's plan and the merits of what had been done to date in Chicago.This book is a manual for other growing cities, "designed to meet the avalanche of assistance-seeking inquiries that flow into Chicago...[and] ppoint the way to those engaged in the city planning endeavor, and inspire them to action..." Item #011286

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