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Actor and musician Kevin Bacon, son of famed Philadelphia city planner Edmund N. Bacon, leaves the Friends Center Quaker meetinghouse in Philadelphia Sunday, following a memorial service for his father, who died Oct. 14 in Philadelphia at the age of 95. Edmund Bacon was a renowned city planner whose vision transformed postwar Philadelphia and whose influence continued to shape the look and feel of the nation's fifth-largest city. His work landed him on the cover of a 1964 issue of Time magazine, which called Philadelphia's redevelopment "the most thoroughly rounded, skillfully coordinated of all big-city programs in the U.S." His 1967 book, "Design of Cities," remains one of the key texts for architecture students.