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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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Oct 17, 2005 · 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 postindustrial age.
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.
Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005) was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author.
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.
- Matt Schudel
- The Early Days: Oscar Stonorov
- In Like Flint: Eliel Saarinen
- A "Better Philadelphia": Louis Kahn
- Towers in A Park: I.M. Pei
- Planning's Superstar: Not Robert Moses
- The Legacy: Philly Planners Today
Born in 1910, Bacon grew up in a world defined by the tail end of the Victorian era and his family's Quaker heritage. His complicated responses to those milieus would figure heavily in his sometimes-hesitant, sometimes-enthusiastic embrace of modernism. Bacon first became interested in architecture as a teenager, after his family moved from Philade...
Soon, Bacon left town again, prompted by the dean of Cornell's College of Architecture to apply to the prestigious Cranbrook Academy of Art outside of Detroit. There, then president Eliel Saarinen espoused the ideas that doing good and designing well went hand in hand — and that the real design problem to solve was the city. When Saarinen selected ...
An earlier example of Bacon's commitment to involving the public in the design of their city was the Better Philadelphia Exhibition, a 1947 civic lesson held in a downtown department store, created primarily by Stonorov with his then partner, architect Louis Kahn. At this point, Bacon — lured back to Philadelphia by an offer to run the Philadelphia...
In many ways, the decision to redevelop Society Hill, a residential neighborhood of colonial and federal houses near the Delaware River that had become dilapidated and impoverished, is one of Bacon's most complicated legacies. As per the times, new construction figured prominently into this mid-century project (roughly 1958 to 1968). Bacon chose a ...
In her caustic takedown of the planning profession, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs damned Bacon with faint praise, writing that "Philadelphia's planning commission is widely admired as one of the best in the country, and it probably is, considering." The better-known Robert Moses did get her poison pen going (even though, ...
Shortly after Bacon's death in 2005, the city's Center for Architecture established the annual Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Award. Winners of the Bacon Prize, as it's popularly known, are drawn from around the world and have included luminaries like Denise Scott Brown, Jan Gehl, Janette Sadik-Khan, and Theaster Gates. But Bacon's legacy live on int...
- Joann Greco
May 3, 2013 · At the height of Bacon’s promoting his unified vision, in 1963, Jane Jacobs produced The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a manifesto in favor of a vital disunity. Bacon’s urban philosophy seemed quickly out of date–and out of touch.
May 14, 2013 · Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics and the Building of Modern Philadelphia, a new biography by Gregory L. Heller, explores his role as a Philadelphia planner and as a third way between the visions of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses.
