# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edmund-bacon
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:46:48.118Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edmund-bacon"
name: "Edmund Bacon"
slug: "edmund-bacon"
description: "Edmund Norwood Bacon was an 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 of his birth, to the extent that he is sometimes described as \"The Father of Modern Philadelphia\". He authored the seminal urban planning book Design of Cities. He was the father of actor Kevin Bacon."
tagline: "American urban planner and architect (1910–2005)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/Edmund_Bacon_%28architect%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1910-05-02"
deathDate: "2005-10-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.08
  momentum:             1.628048780487805
  historical:           6.600957333333334
  currentAttention:     9.04471544715447
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Edmund Bacon"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Bacon_(architect)"
    title: "Edmund Bacon (architect)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%93_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9F"
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    title: "エドモンド・ベーコン"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump