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Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005) was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author. During his tenure as the executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970, his visions shaped today's Philadelphia , the city of his birth, to the extent that he is sometimes described as "The ...
May 14, 2013 · Edmund N. Bacon Collection Photo of Bacon with model of Society Hill Towers (about 1960). 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 ...
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 2, 2017 · In 1959, Edmund Bacon wrote down his lofty hopes and visions for the future of his city, Philadelphia. In his essay titled “Philadelphia in the Year 2009,” the city planner said by that year, the City of Brotherly Love would no longer be “ugly or depressed” and instead home to a pedestrian-only Chestnut Street and air-conditioned sidewalks.
A Philadelphia native and Cornell-educated architect, Edmund Bacon served as Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970. Under Bacon’s direction, the Planning Commission sought to capitalize on postwar optimism and looked to the future with coordinated, comprehensive plans to eliminate blight and ...
Mar 17, 2023 · Edmund Bacon with a model of Philly’s Society Hill Towers circa 1960. “Bacon was quite good at selling his ideas to others in a way that got them excited. In many ways, this was his most important skillset, and it’s one that more planners need to learn and practice,” says biographer Gregory L. Heller. Photo courtesy of Edmund N. Bacon ...
Edmund N. Bacon, FAIA (1910–2005) Visionary city planner led Philadelphia’s renaissance : Edmund Norwood Bacon, FAIA, noted director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970, died in his home on October 14. Equally described as “irascible” and “brilliant,” Bacon dedicated his professional career to making the ...
Oct 17, 2005 · Edmund Bacon, planner behind Phil.'s renaissance | 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...
May 22, 2013 · Edmund Bacon, architect of modern Philadelphia, and champion of skateboarders [audio] May 22, 2013. Visitors to Penns Landing, Society Hill, Independence Mall and other locations of note in Philadelphia owe at least a modicum of appreciation to the efforts of Edmund Bacon, often described as the “father of modern Philadelphia.” ...
Dec 2, 2009 · In 1959, with the postwar economy booming and Philadelphia growing, Edmund N. Bacon composed “Philadelphia in the Year 2009.” Imbued with the optimism of the time, Bacon’s essay predicted great things for the planning chief’s native city. “By the year 2009,” he wrote, “no part of Philadelphia is ugly or depressed.”
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