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Edmund Bacon (architect)

Edmund Bacon (architect)
Edmund Bacon, American urban planner, architect, educator, and author (d. 2005)

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.

2 May 1910

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