Housing Study Guild Records, 1929-1957, 1929-1941

National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials

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Housing Study Guild.

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The Housing Study Guild was founded in the summer of 1933 by Henry Wright, Lewis Mumford and Albert Mayer to serve as a center for study and research in the technical, economic and social problems of housing and community planning. It also served as a coordinating agency and clearing house for activities in these fields; as a library and reading room for published and unpublished material, the editing of current critical technical bulletins, abstract-translations of significant foreign technical...

United States. Resettlement Administration

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Mayer, Albert

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Albert Mayer (1897-1981), an architect and city planner, co-founded the New York City firm of Mayer and Whittlesey (later Mayer, Whittlesey and Glass) in 1935. Mayer attended Columbia University, but graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in civil engineering in 1919. After spending several years as an engineer, he switched to architecture when he became more interested in the social aspects of design. An advocate of large-scale planned housing projects, he believ...

Wright, Henry, -1936

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Epithet: agent of the Duke of Sutherland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000507.0x000177 Epithet: formerly innkeeper at Fazeley British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000507.0x000178 Henry Wright was a city planner. From the guide to the Henry Wright papers, 1907-1960, 1907-1938, (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collectio...

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990

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American writer. From the description of Correspondence with Alfred S. Dashiell, 1931-1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51846130 Carl Zigrosser and Lewis Mumford were life-long friends with shared interests in the arts, society and politics. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1925-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902319 Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologi...

New York City Housing Authority

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The first municipal housing authority in the United States. From the description of Records, 1933-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155483749 The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) was created during the Depression. With funding promised by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Public Works Administration to for the construction of public housing, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia secured legislation in 1934 to create a housing authority in New York. By 1935 First Houses had b...

Gruzen, Benjamin M.

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