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Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005) was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author.
Kevin Bacon disguised himself as a regular person for a day: 'This sucks'
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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 · Learn about Ed Bacon, a mid-century urban planner who favored pedestrians over automobiles and revitalized Philadelphia's downtown. The book explores his role, challenges, and legacy in the context of his time and the city.
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- The early days: Oscar Stonorov. 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.
- In like Flint: Eliel Saarinen. 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.
- A "Better Philadelphia": Louis Kahn. 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.
- Towers in a park: I.M. Pei. 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.
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.
A biography of Edmund Bacon, the architect and urban planner who shaped Philadelphia's urban development in the mid-twentieth century. Learn about his vision, his achievements, and his challenges in this engaging and insightful book by Gregory L. Heller.
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.
