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Edmund Norwood Bacon (* 2. Mai 1910 in Philadelphia; † 14. Oktober 2005) war ein US-amerikanischer Architekt, Stadtplaner und Autor. Bacon studierte an der Cornell University in Ithaca und der Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills.
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 ...
18. Okt. 2005 · 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...
14. Mai 2013 · Books. Arts and Culture. Planning. Urban Design. 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.
28. Sept. 2010 · Urban Planning. The City that Might Have Been: Edmund Bacon’s Philadelphia. By Hillary Kativa. October 19, 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.
Edmund N. Bacon. Edmund Norwood Bacon was born in Philadelphia to conservative Quaker parents and had ancestors who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1682. His father was a medical editor at the J.B. Lippincott publishing firm. As a child, Bacon stood on the observatory platform at City Hall and surveyed the city.
When Philadelphia's iconoclastic city planner Edmund N. Baconlooked into his crystal ball in 1959, he saw a remarkable vision:"Philadelphia as an unma...
