This article needs additional citations for verification. American urban planner, architect, educator, and author. He grew bacon covered dates in the Philadelphia suburbs and graduated from Swarthmore High School in 1928.
From Flint, Bacon returned to Philadelphia to serve as managing director of the Philadelphia Housing Association. He served in the United States Navy aboard the USS Shoshone in the Pacific in World War II. In 1949, 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. Not all of the concepts that Bacon supported materialized.
As an unintended consequence, the Crosstown Expressway proposal depressed property values and rents in the South Street corridor, leading to a turnover of the neighborhood’s character from largely Jewish-owned garment shops to the thriving commercial and nightlife center that it is today. After Bacon’s retirement from the Planning Commission in 1970, he served as vice president for the private planning firm Mondev U. Bacon won numerous honors including the Frank P. Brown Medal in 1962, the American Institute of Planners Distinguished Service Award, the Philadelphia Award, and an honorary doctorate from Penn. Bacon continued to assert his vision for Philadelphia’s future actively in his later years. During the 1990s he proposed new concepts to improve Independence Mall, Penn’s Landing, and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
During the same period, he promoted a design competition for North American cities to design the best “Post-Petroleum” city. Only one municipality, in Ottawa, Canada, committed to it. His wife was Ruth Hilda Holmes, a teacher and liberal political activist. Greg Heller, Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia.
Lincoln Financial Mural Arts Center at the Thomas Eakins House. The City: Under the Knife, or All For Their Own Good”. Ed Bacon: planning, politics, and the building of modern Philadelphia, by Gregory Heller”. Bacon: A Biographical Sketch of His Life from 1910 to 1939″. Conference: Third National Conference on American Planning History The Society for American City and Regional Planning History, At Cincinnati, Ohio. Selected as a Working Paper by the American Panning Association.
New York Times death announcement, 18 October 2005. His linguistic work has been heralded for its early exposition of a universal grammar. 21st century re-evaluations emphasise that Bacon was essentially a medieval thinker, with much of his “experimental” knowledge obtained from books in the scholastic tradition. Bacon’s major work, the Opus Majus, was sent to Pope Clement IV in Rome in 1267 upon the pope’s request. Although gunpowder was first invented and described in China, Bacon was the first in Europe to record its formula. Roger Bacon was born in Ilchester in Somerset, England, in the early 13th century, although his date of birth is sometimes narrowed down to c.
Bacon uses the term to refer to rudimentary studies, the trivium or quadrivium that formed the medieval curriculum. A caustic cleric named Roger Bacon is recorded speaking before the king at Oxford in 1233. In 1237 or at some point in the following decade, he accepted an invitation to teach at the University of Paris. As a private scholar, his whereabouts for the next decade are uncertain but he was likely in Oxford c. 1251, where he met Adam Marsh, and in Paris in 1251. In 1256 or 1257, he became a friar in the Franciscan Order in either Paris or Oxford, following the example of scholarly English Franciscans such as Grosseteste and Marsh. By the mid-1260s, he was undertaking a search for patrons who could secure permission and funding for his return to Oxford.