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Louis Kahn vs. Edmund Bacon, Planning for Communities. The Southwest Temple Redevelopment Area from the Planner's Perspective.
Bacon, Edmund Norwood. Edmond Norwood Bacon, born in Philadelphia, graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Architecture (1932) and worked as an architectural designer in Shanghai, China under Henry Killam Murphy in 1934. He then returned to the United States in 1935 and worked on planning projects in Flint, MI and served as ...
Edmund Bacon (1785-1866), a native of Albemarle County, was the overseer at Monticello from 1806 until 1822. He lived with his family near the base of Monticello mountain, close to a nailery, stable, and several dwellings for enslaved families. Bacon had few agricultural responsibilities; instead, most tasks related to manufacturing elements of ...
17 de oct. de 2005 · 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. But he was also an ideologue so entranced by his own vision that he couldn't always tell when best to leave ...
11 de may. de 2017 · Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005) A noted 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 in which he was born, to the extent that he is sometimes described as "The Father of Modern Philadelphia."
Design of Cities. Edmund N. Bacon. Published 1967. History. In a brilliant syntehesis of words and pictures, Edmund N. Bacon relates historical examples to modern principles of urban plannig. He vividly demonstrates how the work of great architects and planners of the past can influence subsequent develpment and be continued by later generations.
26 de abr. de 2014 · 5. Edmund N. Bacon Mayo 2, 1910 – Octubre 14, 2005 - Nació en Philadelphia y estudió arquitectura en la Universidad de Cornell y en la Academia de Arte Cranbrook, bajo el Arquitecto Finlandés Eliel Saarinen. Planificador de la ciudad de Flint, Michigan. - Desde 1949, se convirtió en Director General de la Comisión de Planificación de Philadelphia hasta su jubilación en 1970.
