obit: Edmund Bacon

Edmund Bacon was the father of modern-day Philadelphia. As the city's 
chief planning director for 21 years, he left his mark on this city like 
no politician or captain of industry ever could.

He took a city that, through its haphazard growth, was betraying William 
Penn's plan for a town in harmony with nature and with the nature of 
man. Bacon dragged Philadelphia kicking and screaming into the 20th 
century, rescuing it from its own worst instincts.

cont'd...
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/opinion/12922019.htm

and Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5345175,00.html