Bacon, Edmund N.

Edmund Norwood Bacon was born May 2, 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Cornell University in 1932 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree and worked as an architectural designer in Shanghai, China under Henry Killam Murphy in 1934. In 1935 he returned to Philadelphia to work with W. Pope Barney. He attended Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1936, and worked in Michigan 1937-1939 as Superintendent of City Planning for the city of Flint. From 1940 to 1943 Bacon served as Managing Director of the Philadelphia Housing Association. From 1946 to 1949 he was Senior Land Planner of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission. He served as Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970. He was also Lecturer in City Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, an active participant in professional organizations and a frequent speaker. Edmund Bacon is the author of Design of Cities, published in 1967.

From the description of Edmund N. Bacon papers, 1940-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83192620