Hammer, Philip G.

Philip Gibbon Hammer (1914- ), urban economist and city planner of Atlanta, Ga., Washington, D.C., and Palm Harbor, Fla.

From the description of Philip G. Hammer papers, 1934-1988 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 26243130

Philip Gibbon Hammer

1914Born 18 September in Philadelphia, Pa., son of John Levering and Emma (Gibbon) Hammer. Raised in Wilmington, NC.

1936 Received A. B. from University of North Carolina

1936-1939 Harvard University

Rockefeller Fellow in Training for the Public Service, 1936-1937

Intern on staff of Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., in Washington, D. C., 1937-1938

Littauer Fellow in Public Administration, 1938-1939

Passed general exams for Ph.D. in political economy

1939-1941 Chief, editorial section, Farm Security Administration, U. S. Department of Agriculture

1941-1943 Chief, program analysis section, Farm Security Administration, U. S. Department of Agriculture

1943-1944 Staff assistant to Herbert H. Lehman (former governor of New York), Director, Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

1944-1946 Staff assistant to Herbert H. Lehman, Director-General, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

1947-1950 Principal associate, Joseph K. Heyman Company, economic and business analysts, Atlanta, Georgia

1949-1950 Project director for reorganization of local government, Local Government Commission of Fulton County, Georgia

1950-1953 Executive Director, Metropolitan Planning Commission, Atlanta

1953 Executive officer, Committee of the South, National Planning Association

1953 Director of research, study of Negro schools in the South (with Harry S. Ashmore), Fund for the Advancement of Education

1954-1979 Founder, president, chairman, Hammer and Company Associates (later, Hammer, Siler, George Associates), economic consultants, Atlanta/Washington/Denver

1979-1985 Consultant in urban economics, part-time, Philip Hammer, Inc

Activities:

1953-1955 Planning Council, Atlanta Community Chest

1954-1957 Board of Directors, Fernbank Forest, Inc., Atlanta

1955-1957 Board of Directors, Southern Regional Council

1955-1957 Family Service Society of Atlanta

1955-1958 Board of Directors, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce

1956-1961 Board of Directors, Atlanta Urban League

1958 Representative from Fulton County, Metropolitan Planning Commission

1958-1961 Advisory Committee, Graduate School of City Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology

1959-1960 Lecturer on economics, Georgia Institute of Technology and Atlanta University

1961- Board of Directors, Potomac Institute

1964-1966 Consultant to Taconic Foundation

1965 Acting executive director, Urban America

1967-1968 President's Task Force on Suburban Problems

1967-1980 Board of Directors, Planning and Development Collaborative International

1967-1981 Board of Trustees, Clark College (Atlanta University)

1968-1969 Chairman, National Capital Planning Commission

1968-1969 President, American Society of Planning Officials

1970-1973 Commission on Governance of Metropolitan Areas, Resources for the Future

1971 Lecturer, Howard University

1972- Board of Trustees, World Wildlife Fund/ The Conservation Foundation

1972-1973 Faculty, Dag Hammarskjold College, Columbia, Maryland

1973 Member, U. S. delegation, United States-South Africa Leader Exchange Program

1973-1975 Board of Directors, Soul City Foundation

1973-1976 District of Columbia Bicentennial Commission

1973-1977 Board of Directors, Cousins Properties, Atlanta

1973-1977 Board of Directors, National Council for Equal Business Opportunity

1973-1982 Board of Trustees, National Planning Association

1974- American Planning Association Foundation

1975-1979 Representative of District of Columbia Mayor, National Capital Planning Commission

1977 Distinguished Practitioner/Lecturer, College of Business Administration, University of Georgia

1978- Board of Editors, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMENTARY Magazine

1981-1984 Chairman, Building Research Board (formerly Advisory Board on the Built Environment), National Academy of Sciences

1983-1985 Lecturer, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina

1985- Chairman, Advisory Board, Northwestern Council for Urban Economic Development (CUED) Institute for Economic Development, Evanston

From the guide to the Philip G. Hammer Papers, 1934-1988, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)