Edmund Bacon

“ T H E FAT H E R O F M O D E R N
PHILADELPHIA”
About Edmund Bacon
• Edmund Norwood Bacon was an American urban
planner, architect, educator, and author.
• He was educated in architecture at Cornell
University.
• He worked as an architect in Shanghai in Henry
Murphy's office and was responsible for designing
the Nanking airport.
• He visited Beijing that exerted a deep influence on
his thinking and then he worked for architect
William Pope Barney.
• Bacon had a position at the Flint Institute for
Planning and Research and helped to establish the
Flint Housing Association and reforming the city's
Planning Commission.
Bacon succeeded Mitchell as executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning
Commission. It was during his tenure at the City Planning Commission that Bacon
and his staff conceived and implemented numerous large- and small-scale design
ideas that shaped today's Philadelphia. These design concepts became Penn Center,
Market East, Penn's Landing, Society Hill, Independence Mall, and the Far
Northeast.

After his retirement he served as vice president for the private planning firm Mondev
U.S.A., was an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
and at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bacon helped found and served as an honorary director of a foundation that bears his
name, The Ed Bacon Foundation, whose programs are now managed by the Edmund
N. Bacon Memorial Committee at the Philadelphia Center for Architecture.
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