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Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005) was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author.
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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. Heller, who helped Bacon write his memoirs, has written an entirely sympathetic—and informative, if somewhat ...
Edmond Norwood Bacon, born in Philadelphia, graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Architecture (1932) and worked as an architectural designer in Shanghai, China under Henry Killam Murphy in 1934.
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 City of Brotherly Love more beautiful and livable.
Design of Cities, first published in 1967, is an illustrated account of the development of urban form, written by Edmund Bacon (1910–2005), who was the executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970.
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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.
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