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- Edmund Norwood Bacon was Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission between 1949 and 1970, a period of historic activity in city planning nationwide and in his own city. He dramatically influenced the form of his city, and Philadelphia's example influenced planning and policy throughout the United States.
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Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005) was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author.
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May 14, 2013 · A new biography by Gregory L. Heller explores Ed Bacon's role as a Philadelphia planner and as a third way between the visions of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses.
Sep 28, 2010 · A Philadelphia native and Cornell-educated architect, Edmund Bacon served as Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970.
Oct 18, 2005 · Edmund N. Bacon, a leading postwar urban planner who remade much of Philadelphia, died on Friday at his home there. He was 95. His death was confirmed by his daughter Elinor Bacon.
May 3, 2013 · Editor’s Note: For about a decade, the accomplished urban thinker and practitioner Greg Heller has been imagining a biography of the visionary city planner Edmund Bacon. In 2002, when Bacon was 92 and Heller was 20, he became Bacon’s personal archivist.
- Nathaniel Popkin
Edmund N. Bacon was born in Philadelphia on 2 May 1910. He was educated in architecture at Cornell University and subsequently studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art with Eliel Saarinen. Bacon worked as an architect in China and Philadelphia, and as a planner in Flint, Michigan.
Oct 17, 2005 · Flaws and all, Edmund N. Bacon molded a modern Philadelphia: Edmund N. Bacon, who died Friday at 95, was a planning visionary who dragged a declining, smoke-blackened Philadelphia kicking and screaming into the modern postindustrial age.
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