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25 de jun. 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.
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."
Edmund Bacon was overseer at Monticello from 1806 to 1822. He lived with his family near the base of Monticello mountain, close to a nailery, stable, and several dwellings for enslaved families. Bacon evidently was on the mountaintop less often; Jefferson directed him to “come to the top of the mountain every 2. or 3. days to see that nothing is going wrong, and that the gates are in order.”
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 (right in this photograph), who served as executive director of the City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970, left an indelible mark upon Philadelphia. He was the city planner behind Penn Center, Market East, Penn’s Landing, and Society Hill.
Captain Edmund Bacon was chief overseer of Monticello for twenty years while Jefferson was alive. He offered his recollections of life at Monticello to Hamilton W. Pierson, the president of a ...
Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City. Edited by Scott Gabriel Knowles. University of Pennsylvania Press. 184 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in, 26 illus. Paperback. 9780812220780. Published: November 2009. $29.95.
