Notes
Notes Introduction: Revisiting Edmund Bacon’s Vision for the City 1. ‘‘Philadelphia in the Year 2009’’ was the title of Bacon’s essay in its unpublished draft form. See Edmund N. Bacon, ‘‘Philadelphia in the Year 2009,’’ Edmund Bacon Collection, Box 095.150–095.278, ‘‘Bacon Writings—1950s,’’ Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania. The essay was later published as Edmund N. Bacon, ‘‘Tomorrow: A Fair Can Pace It,’’ Greater Philadelphia Magazine (October 1959). For the sake of consistency throughout this book we refer to the ‘‘Philadelphia in the Year 2009’’ essay text, as reprinted in Chapter One. The unpublished essay version offers slightly more to us today than does the published version, as the magazine’s editors cut a few key phrases here and there (as editors will do). Chapter 2. Salesman of Ideas: The Life Experiences That Shaped Edmund Bacon I would like to thank the following people for their support and assistance on this project: Karin, Elinor, Hilda, Michael, Kira, and Kevin Bacon; William Whitaker and Nancy Thorne at the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives; Daniel Brook; Andrew Dalzell; Annie Juergens Behr; and my wonderful , loving, and supportive family. 1. ‘‘The City: Under the Knife, or All for Their Own Good,’’ Time 84, 19 (6 November 1964). 2. James Reichley, ‘‘Philadelphia Does It: The Battle for Penn Center,’’ Harper ’s (31 January 1957): 49–56, 51. 3. Ibid. 4. Author interview, Richard Huffman, 10 September 2008, personal collection of Gregory Heller. 5. For examples of Bacon’s writing about planning with communities, see Edmund Bacon (hereafter EB), ‘‘Notes on ‘Civic Education in Planning,’ Report of AIP Subcommittee on Civic Education,’’ 29 January 1952, Coll. 095, Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania (hereafter AAUP); EB, ‘‘What the Building Products Executives Can Do About City Planning,’’ talk at Building Products Executive Conference, Washington, D.C., 17 October 1967, Box A-2928, Folder ‘‘Mr. Bacon’s Correspondence September–December 1967,’’ Philadelphia City Archives (hereafter PCA); EB, ‘‘The Role of Planning in Our Changing Society,’’ 29th World Congress International Federation for Housing and Planning (Philadelphia), 30 June 1968, 095, Box 427, AAUP. For discussion of democratic feedback, see EB, Design of Cities (New York: Penguin, 1974), 258–62; also EB, Correspondence to William A. Doebele, Jr., 11 May 1965, 095, Box.285, AAUP. 152 Notes to Pages 20–25 6. See, for example, Nancy Love, ‘‘Paradise Lost,’’ Philadelphia (July 1968): 96. 7. See John B. Atkinson, The Atkinsons of New Jersey from the Records of Friends Meetings and from Offices of Record in the State, Gen At1:2, Historical Society of Pennsylvania. See also George Norwood Comly, Comly Family in America (Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1939), Fa 929.2 C734c, Historical Society of Pennsylvania . See also John Comly’s Journal, EB, 292 Box 47, AAUP. 8. See George E. Thomas, William L. Price: Arts and Crafts to Modern Design (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000). 9. David B. Brownlee, Building the City Beautiful: The Benjamin Franklin Parkway and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1990), 86. 10. For a discussion of early American suburbs, see David Gosling, The Evolution of American Urban Design (Chichester: John Wiley, 2003). For a good discussion specifically of the Radburn design concept, see Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002). 11. For more on Murphy’s life and career, see Jeffrey W. Cody, Building in China: Henry K. Murphy’s ‘‘Adaptive Architecture,’’ 1914–1935 (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2001). 12. Bacon wrote to his parents, ‘‘Peking is so brilliant that it rather blots out everything else temporarily.’’ EB, Correspondence to Mother and Dad, 30 May 1934, personal collection of Elinor Bacon. 13. For more information on W. Pope Barney, see American Architects and Buildings database, www.philadelphiabuildings.org. 14. See Richard Pommer, ‘‘The Architecture of Urban Housing in the United States During the Early 1930s,’’ Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 37, 4 (December 1978): 235–64. 15. For more on Catherine Bauer and Lewis Mumford, see H. Peter Oberlander and Eva Newbrun, Houser: The Life and Work of Catherine Bauer (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999). 16. Correspondence from EB to Eliel Saarinen, 27 September 1935, Correspondence Boxes, EB, AAUP. 17. Eliel Saarinen, The City: Its Growth, Its Decay, Its Future (New York: Reinhold , 1943), 2. 18. Ibid., 4. 19. Ibid., 23. 20. For a discussion of Flint’s planning program, see Madeline L. Cohen, ‘‘Postwar City Planning...
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