by Robert Yaro, President, RPA
Ed Bacon, the last in a generation of great 20th century city planners that included Robert Moses, Ed Logue and Jim Rouse, died last week at age 98. Like the rest of this group, Ed, who I got to know in his final years, was both a visionary and a man of action. Ed became Philadelphia's planning director in the late 1940s and was one of the first planners to fully realize the potential of urban renewal to fundamentally change the prospects and character of major US cities. He will be missed, although he will live on in his books, works and ideas.
Ed Bacon, the last in a generation of great 20th century city planners that included Robert Moses, Ed Logue and Jim Rouse, died last week at age 98. Like the rest of this group, Ed, who I got to know in his final years, was both a visionary and a man of action. Ed became Philadelphia's planning director in the late 1940s and was one of the first planners to fully realize the potential of urban renewal to fundamentally change the prospects and character of major US cities. He will be missed, although he will live on in his books, works and ideas.
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