Walter Thabit papers, 1950-2004.

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Walter Thabit papers, 1950-2004.

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Files relating to projects with which Walter Thabit was associated include records of the Vest Pocket and Housing Rehabilitation and Model Cities programs in the East New York section of Brooklyn; planning papers and work files for consulting work in Hartford, Connecticut, and Newark, New Jersey; proposals for a variety of projects both in the United States and abroad which never materialized; president's files of the Planners for Equal Opportunity; files on the development of new private ferry services to and from Manhattan, as well as Staten Island ferry planning; Health Pac newsletters, "Better Transit Bulletin," and Ekistics newsletters; and administrative and financial records of Thabit's planning consulting firm. Oral history interviews by Matthew Lyons, Nov. 17 and Dec. 13, 1988. Also, "Desperately Needed Now: An SRO Housing Revolution," 1991. Also files on citizen participation, civil defense, school decentralization, Hoboken planning, single room occupancy (SRO), personal files, Cooper Square Committee files - including a program for the 45th Anniversary Gala (1959-2004) containing history of the Committee, and files relating to Planners for Equal Opportunity (PEO) and a collection of brochures and pamphlets on planning topics.

72 cubic ft.

Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Lyons, Matthew Nemiroff

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Thabit, Walter.

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City planner. From the description of Walter Thabit papers, 1950-2004. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64062348 From the guide to the Walter Thabit papers, 1950-2004., (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) ...

Vest Pocket and Housing Rehabilitation Program (New York, N.Y.)

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United States. Model Cities Administration

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Planners for Equal Opportunity

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Planners for Equal Opportunity was established in 1964 by a small group of professionals in the housing, planning, architecture and social work fields as an organization through which planning skills and concepts could be used to work for equality among minorities. The group encouraged professional planners to serve as civil rights advocates and to work for the change of policies and practices they considered racist. It published a periodic newsletter, EQUALOP, which ceased publication in 1971. ...