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

Edmund Bacon (architect)

American urban planner and architect (1910–2005)

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…