Chicago on Foot: An Architectural Walking Tour
Ira J. Bach
J. Philip O'Hara Inc., 1973 (Second Edition)

Hardcover | 8 x 10 inches | 370 pages | English | ISBN: 978-0879554026

Publisher Description:
Chicago is one of the great architectural meccas of the modern world. The names of its architects -- Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, William Lebaron Jenney, Daniel Burnham, Mies van der Rohe, C. F. Murphy, Y. C. Wong, to mention just a few -- are internationally famous. Their revolutionary concepts of design and construction continue to produce a host of "firsts" -- the skyscraper, the iron skeleton, the floating foundation, the Prairie House, the "Chicago window," the glass wall, the urban atrium house.
Ira Bach, architect, city planner, and ardent walker, has developed 32 tours which provide rich and detailed walks showing Chicago's most outstanding buildings and its famous neighborhoods -- Michigan Avenue, State Street, LaSalle Street, Wacker Drive, the "Gold Coast," Hyde park, and many others. Included in this edition are Northwestern University campus in Evanston and the town of Riverside, designed by Olmstead [sic] and Vaux who designed among other outstanding parks, Central Park in New York City.dDAB Commentary:
Chicago on Foot by Ira J. Bach (1906-1985) is one of "101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image" included in the recently published Chicago by the Book. I happened to come across and buy Bach's bo...