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Kevin Bacon disguised himself as a regular person for a day: 'This sucks'
Justin Lubin Kevin Bacon in 'Maxxxine' Fame runs in Bacon’s family — his father, Edmund Bacon, was a well-known urban ...
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Kevin Bacon Wore A Disguise For A Day: ‘This Sucks’
He also spoke about being raised by his father, Edmund Bacon, a well-known urban planner in Philadelphia who was also called “The Father of Modern Philadelphia ...
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
