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May 2, 2017 · Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia. Philly’s famed city planner had a mix of successes and failures during his long career. Here are just a few radical...
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. Now, his long-anticipated biography of Bacon is out, published this month by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
“The action of the Congress of the United States in appropriating one billion dollars to create a new urban environment places on all of us a responsibility we cannot duck.” 1 So Edmund Bacon began his remarks at the Harvard Urban Design Conference in 1956, provoking our reflections on the history of urban renewal, on the smaller value of ...
Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics and the Building of Modern Philadelphia. By: Gregory L. Heller. “Edmund Bacon, probably the most relentless and determined of all planners, believed that the most important and difficult thing to do was deciding what to advocate and that the trick in making that decision was selecting something that you could ...
Oct 16, 2005 · Edmund N. Bacon, 95, a Philadelphia city planner whose vision of urban renewal influenced a generation of city planners throughout the country, died Oct. 14 at his home in Philadelphia. No...
May 18, 2013 · Edmund Bacon. Pioneer Information. Born in Philadelphia, Bacon earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1932. After traveling to Europe, he spent a year working for American architect Henry Killam Murphy in China.
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.
