Dr. Scott E. Bedford

              THE REDPATH BUREAU
Presents
THE AUTHORITATIVE LECTURER ON MODERN CITIES
Sociologist, Author, Traveler of The University of Chicago
DR. SCOTT E. BEDFORD
on
THE BEAUTIES OF MODERN CITIES
ILLUSTRATED WITH SLIDES IN COLOR

ADDITIONAL BEDFORD LECTURES

ILLUSTRATED
The City of Our Dreams, or The All-World City

America's Heart Disease, or Bad Housing

Growing Pains, or City Planning



NOT ILLUSTRATED
The City With a Soul, or Urban Neighborliness

Adult Learning, or The Security of Democracy



Management
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THE BEAUTIES OF MODERN CITIES
(Typical Synopsis, but subject to change)

I
THE CITY AND BEAUTY
The Importance of the City in Society—The Function of Beauty in Social Life

Seeing Cities from the Heights—Distance Lends Enchantment and Hides the Ugly

Framing the Beauties of Modern Cities—Drawbacks to Civic Beauty Smoke, Dirt, Wires, Poles, Billboards

Beauty in the City's Site—Water, Hills, Mountains Treatment of Water Fronts

Modern City Portals—Give the Incoming Guest a Welcome and the Departing Visitor a Desire to Return

Beauties of Buildings—Towers of Charm

Beauty of the Street—The Most Democratic Place in a Democracy Street Pictures and Vistas



II
STREET FURNITURE BEAUTY
Building Entrances, of welcome; Pavements, of mosaic; Street Name Plates, of utility; Fences, of curves; Shelters, of symmetry; Booths, of beauty; Traffic Signals, of proportion; Wells, of refreshment; Canopies, of color; Vases, of variety; Bird Houses, of contrast; Bulletin Boards, of meaning; Protection Posts, of art; Pole Baskets, of flowers; Flag Poles, of grace; Clocks, of charm; Elevated and Subway Stations, of inspiration; Fountains, of fancy; Lamp Posts, of embellishment; Lanterns, of refinement; Cluster Lighting, of character; Night Brings out the Beauties, Bridges, of unity;

Miscellaneous Street Furniture




III
PARK ORNAMENTATION
Park Entrances, of feeling; Park Seats, of comfort; Sun Dials, of delight; Band Stands, of harmony; Structures, of mystery



IV
SCULPTURE AND STATUARY
Uses of Statuary—Placing of Statuary Equestrian Statues, of strength; Triumphal Arches, of glory; Memorials, of worth; Obelisks, of age



V
VINES, FLOWERS AND TREES
Bringing the Country into the City Open Spaces, devoid of greenery; Formal and Landscape Gardening; Treelages. Window Boxes, Rock Gardens, Trees (What a thought it was when God thought of a tree); Movable Forests, Trees in Winter, Tree Butchery, Beauty Butchery via ugliness



VI
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BEAUTY IN SOCIAL LIFE



ABOUT DR. BEDFORD
Dr. Bedford has combined academic work with practical experience.  Has been a newspaper reporter and treasurer of a business corporation.  He was prize orator and debater in college; taught in three types of Universities; did research work in labor legislation for the Carnegie Institute; been Secretary of the American Sociological Society and Editor of its Papers and Proceedings; also Associate Editor of the American Journal of Sociology; Specialist in General Education, U. S. War Department Research Secretary United Charities of Chicago, and with the Governor's (Illinois) Commission on Unemployment.  Wrote many reports and pamphlets and these books — MODERN CITIES; READINGS IN URBAN SOCIOLOGY, ETC.  Is a member of many learned societies, including INSTITUT INTERNATIONAL DE SOCIOLOGIE.  He has studied the large cities of the world and in the past twelve years studied and visited all the cities of the United States above 100,000 in population.  See WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA.

The late Professor A. W. Small, head of the Department of Sociology of the University of Chicago and editor of the American Journal of Sociology, said to Dr. Bedford, I think you know more about the social aspects of modern cities than any other American Sociologist.





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READINGS IN URBAN SOCIOLOGY
By SCOTT E. BEDFORD, A.M., Ph.D., L.H.D.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER


I.
Importance of the City, Historical Sketch of Cities.
II.
Location and Growth of Cities.
III.
City Planning.
IV.
Streets, Transportation and Traffic
V.
Civic Aesthetics.
VI.
Public Health and Safety.
VII.
Housing and Tenements.
VIII.
Organizing the Neighborhood and Community.
IX.
Social Adjustment in Cities.

Octavo. Cloth. 903 pages.



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