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About Edmund Bacon
Edmund Norwood Bacon 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 Father of Modern Philadelphia". He authored the seminal urban planning book Design of Cities. He was the father of actor Kevin Bacon.
Everything about Edmund Bacon →- Occupation
- architect, urban planner
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 2, 1910
- Died
- October 14, 2005