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Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005) was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author.
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 14, 2013 · Ed Bacon was a bizarro Robert Moses: a mid-century urban master builder who favored pedestrians over automobiles. Yet while Bacon held values similar to Jane Jacobs—and, like Jacobs, promoted his views through articles and books—the two were far from allies.
Sep 28, 2010 · Heralded as the father of modern Philadelphia, famed city planner Edmund Bacon was the man behind many of the city’s most notable post-WWII redevelopment projects, from Penn Center and Market East to Penn’s Landing and Society Hill.
Mar 17, 2023 · The Six Degrees of Edmund Bacon. The people and places that made modern-day Philadelphia through the career of its longtime planning commissioner (and father of actor Kevin Bacon). Edmund Bacon with a model of Philly’s Society Hill Towers circa 1960.
May 2, 2017 · Remembering city planner Ed Bacon’s unbuilt visions for Philly. A mural of longtime city planner Ed Bacon by Gaia sits in Center City. In 1959, Edmund Bacon wrote down his lofty hopes and...
In the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia, architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon turned his sights on shaping urban America.
Oct 17, 2005 · Edmund Bacon, Dead at 95. | An Appreciation. 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.
In a brilliant synthesis of words and pictures, Edmund N. Bacon relates historical examples to modern principles of urban planning. He vividly demonstrates how the work of great architects and planners of the past can influence subsequent development and be continued by later generations.
Architect, city planner, educator, and writer, Edmund N. Bacon (1910 -) orchestrated revitalization of downtown Philadelphia after World War II and served as one of the most articulate voices for a vigorous urban planning process in American cities.
