Russell Van Nest Black papers, 1919-1968.

Feiss, Carl Lehman, 1907-1997

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Carl Lehman Feiss (1907-1997), educator, city planner and historic preservation consultant. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1931; a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1938; and studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art under Eliel Saarinen from 1932-1935. Feiss taught at Columbia University School of Architecture from 1936 to 1941, where he became director of the Planning and Housing Division. After se...

Nolen, John, 1869-1937

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John Nolen (June 14, 1869 – February 18, 1937) was an American landscape architect, planning consultant, founding member of the American City Planning Institute and a writer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Nolen was orphaned as a child and placed in Girard College. After he graduated first in his class in 1884, he worked as a grocery clerk and secretary to the Girard Estate Trust Fund before enrolling in the Wharton School of Finance and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1891. ...

Engle, R. F. (Robert F.)

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Lewis, Harold Mac Lean, 1889-

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Philadelphia Regional Plan.

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Draper, E. S. (Earle Sumner), 1893-1994

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Landscape architect. From the description of Earle Sumner Draper papers, 1920-1973. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 61170723 City planner. Earle Sumner Draper, Sr. received a B.S. in landscape architecture from Massachusetts State College in 1915. He then joined the staff of John Nolen, city planner, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was appointed Nolen's southern representative. For two years he was engaged in town planning, including ...

Hartzog, Justin R. (Justin Richardson), 1892-1963

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City planner. Justin R. Hartzog graduated from Cornell University in 1917, and in 1922 received a Masters Degree in Landscape Design from Cornell. From the description of Justin R. Hartzog papers, 1917-1966. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074392 ...

Unwin, Raymond, Sir, 1863-1940

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Virginia. State Planning Board

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James, Harlean, 1877-

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Blucher, Walter H. (Walter Harold), 1901-

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Walter H. Blucher was associated with the Detroit City Plan Commission, 1919-1934. He was Executive Director of the American Society of Planning Officials, 1934-1953, and of the Association of State Planning and Development Agencies, 1946-1953. Also, he was a member of the International Federation for Housing and Town Planning, the American Institute of Planners, Alpha Theta Kappa, and the Michigan Bar Association. Member, International Fraternity of Lambda Alpha, Ely Chapter. From t...

Randall, Robert, 1890-1966.

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Regional Plan Association of Bay Counties.

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Haldeman, Benjamin Antrim, 1867-1955.

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Pennsylvania State Planning Board

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Shurtleff, Flavel

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Shurtleff earned his Harvard AB in 1901. From the description of The working of the city government of Bristol, [thesis for] Government 10, [1901] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074415 ...

Mayer, Albert, 1897-....

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Albert Mayer and his wife, MagdaMayer. From the description of Letters, 1934-1981, n.d., to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155872448 Architect, city planner, engineer. Mayer (b. 1897) was appointed Planning Advisor to the Government of Uttar Pradesh, India, in 1947. From the description of News bulletins from India, circa 1946-1954. (Columbia University In the ...

Mackesey, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1908-1976

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Architect, city and regional planner. Thomas Mackesey received his Bachelor's degree in architecture (1932) and his Master's degree in city planning (1938) from M.I.T. He worked with the City Planning Board in Lynn, Massachusetts from 1932-1936. He later became a research assistant with the Division of State Planning of New York and secretary-treasurer of the State Federation of Official Planning Boards. In 1938 Mackesey became an instructor of regional planning at Corne...

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...

Bartholomew, Harland, 1889-

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Hubbard, Henry Vincent, 1875-1947

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Adams, Frederick J., 1880-1945.

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Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954.

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Liberty Hyde Bailey was instrumental in separating Horticulture from Botany and establishing it as a distinct scientific pursuit. Born on a farm in Michigan in 1858, Liberty Hyde Bailey graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College with a degree in botany. After working with the renowned botanist Asa Gray at Harvard, he returned to Michigan to teach horticulture and landscape gardening. In 1888, he came to Cornell to build a new curriculum in practical and experimental horticulture. In 1904, ...

New York State Planning Board

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Whitnall, Gordon

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Clarke, Gilmore D., 1892-1982

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Gilmore David Clarke, American landscape architect & chairman of the National Commission of Fine Arts, died 1985. From the description of Gilmore D.Clarke papers, ca.1920-1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 489376200 Landscape architect. From the description of Reminiscences of Gilmore David Clarke : oral history, 1959. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 505184805 From the description of Reminiscenc...

Veiller, Lawrence, 1872-1959

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Social worker. From the description of Reminiscences of Lawrence Veiller : oral history, 1949. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309739989 Secretary of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York Committee on Criminal Courts. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1935. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 243854804 ...

Stein, Clarence S.

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Architect, city planner (lived 1882-1975). Clarence S. Stein began his career as an architect, but turned his attention to planning by the early 1920s. From 1923 to 1926 he was chairman of the New York State Housing and Regional Planning Commission and was among the founders of the Regional Plan Association in 1923. With his partner Henry Wright, he was a leading proponent of the "garden city" concept of planning. He designed or participated in the design of Sunnyside Ga...

Wetherill, Samuel Price, Jr., 1880-

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CRANE, JACOB L.

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Consulting engineer. From the description of Report on the Great Salt Lake Diking Project, 1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699228 Civil engineer, city planner. Jacob Leslie Crane was born in 1892 in Benzonia, Michigan. He received a degree in civil engineering from the University of Michigan and a planning degree from Harvard in 1921, where he studied under John Nolen. Crane worked as a consultant in the United States and 25 other countries, ...

Segoe, Ladislas

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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...

Bigger, Frederick Thomas, 1881-1963

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Whitten, Robert Harvey, 1873-1936

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Robert Harvey Whitten was employed as a planning consultant with the City Plan Commission of Cleveland, Ohio, 1918-1921, and later by many other communities including Atlanta, Providence and Boston. Also connected with Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs and co-author of Problems of Planning Unbuilt Areas; co-author of Neighborhoods of Small Homes (Harvard City Planning Series); and one of authors of vol. 7 of same series, entitled Model Laws for Planning Cities, Counties and States (1935...

Root, Irving C.

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Irving Campdoras Root (1891-1973) worked as a city planner and landscape architect in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1916-1920, and in Flint, Michigan from 1920-1922. He worked as a private planning consultant from 1922-1927 before becoming the Chief Engineer and Planning Director of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Root was then Superintendent of the National Capital Parks in the District of Columbia from 1940-1953 before returning to private practice as a planning con...

Buttenheim, Harold S. (Harold Sinley), 1876-

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Tibbitts, Armand, 1891-1987

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Landscape architect. Cornell University Class of 1915. From the description of Armand Tibbitts papers, 1913-1969. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63871130 ...

Bassett, Edward M. (Edward Murray), 1863-1948

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Bassett was a United States congressman, 1902-1905, and served on the Public Service Commission of New York, during which time he aided in the development of the dual subway plan in New York City. He was vice-chairman of the Brooklyn Committee on City Plan, whose report was published in 1914; chairman of the Heights of Buildings Commission in New York City, whose final report, 1916, presented the first Zoning Resolution of the City of New York, also the first comprehensive zoning ordinance in th...

Bettman, Alfred, 1873-1945

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City planner. From the description of Alfred Bettman papers, 1910-1945. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074394 Alfred Bettman was a city planner. From the guide to the Alfred Bettman Papers, 1910-1945, (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) Alfred Bettman, prominent lawyer and city planner, was born in 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Louis and Rebecca (Bloom) Bettman. He attended Harvard Uni...

Dohram, Frederick.

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Ascher, Charles S. (Charles Stern), 1899-1980

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Professor of political science at Brooklyn College from 1949 to his retirement in 1966. (Columbia A.B., 1920; LL.B., 1921). He was also secretary and general counsel of the City Housing Corporation, builder of the experimental developments Sunnyside (Queens, N.Y.) and Radburn (New Jersey); served as founding executive secretary of the Public Administration Clearing House in Chicago; regional director of the National Housing Agency from 1942-1947; and executive officer for progr...

New Jersey. State Planning Bureau

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Vinton, Warren Jay, 1889-1969.

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Planner. Warren J. Vinton received his A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1911. At age 21 he became secretary and director of the Vinton Company, then the largest general building contractors in Detroit. During World War I he served as an assistant attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. In 1928 he went to New York and worked for the American Association for Social Security, which did the groundwork for the eventual adoption of social security legislation. He also di...

Black, Russell Van Nest, 1893-1969

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Planner, landscape architect, civil engineer, author, teacher. Russell Van Nest Black graduated from Cornell University in 1916, and later served as director of Bay Counties (San Francisco) Regional Plan, 1923; director of plans and surveys, Philadelphia Regional Plan, 1925-1929; vice president and president of the American Institute of Planners, 1933-1937; consultant to the New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia state planning boards; and consultant director to the New Jer...

American institute of planners

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Comey, Arthur C. (Arthur Coleman), 1886-1954

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City planner and landscape architect. Educated at Harvard University (A.B. cum laude, 1907). His first professional employment was in 1908 as landscape architect for the Lowell Park Commission, Dixon, Illinois. In 1909 he became Superintendent of Parks at Utica, New York. Opened an office as "Consultant on City Planning," in Harvard Square, Cambridge in 1911 where he remained until 1950. From 1928 to 1940, also served on the faculties of schools at Harvard, first as a lecturer in the School of L...

Montillon, Eugene Davis, 1883-1973.

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Cornell University Class of 1912. Professor of landscape architecture, Cornell University. From the description of Eugene Davis Montillon pamphlet, 1972. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074408 ...

Adams, Thomas, 1871-1940

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City planner. Adams was involved with the Garden City movement in England, especially Letchworth. He served as Town Planning Advisor to the Canadian government, 1914-1921, and presided over the Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs until its completion in 1931. From the description of Thomas Adams papers, 1918-1932. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64071616 ...

Augur, Tracy Baldwin, 1896-1974.

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City planner. Tracy B. Augur (Cornell University Class of 1917) was the principal planner for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) from 1933-1948. He also worked for the Urban Renewal Administration and the Housing and Home Finance Agency. From the description of Tracy Baldwin Augur papers, 1921-1960, 1931-1946 (bulk). (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64071639 ...

Tilton, L. Deming, 1890-1949.

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Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939

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Livingston Farrand was born in 1867 in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton University in 1888, and took an M.D. degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He was an instructor in psychology at Columbia University, and later adjunct professor. Interested in primitive psychology, he joined expeditions to the Pacific northwest with Franz Boas and others, and was appointed professor of anthropology at Columbia in 1903. Farrand was deeply concerned with public health ...