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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: Planning, Politics and the Building of Modern Philadelphia , a new biography by Gregory L. Heller, presents Bacon as the third pole in the mid-century struggle between Jacobs and Moses for the soul of the American city.
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...
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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.
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.
