Clarence Stein papers, 1905-1983.

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...

Wurster, Catherine Bauer

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American writer on housing and related planning issues; official in the Federal Housing Administration and policy advisor on housing to Franklin D. Roosevelt and other U.S. presidents; associate dean and professor of city and regional planning, College of Environmental Design, University of California at Berkeley; married to the American architect William W. Wurster. From the description of Correspondence with Lewis and Sophia Mumford and related material, 1930-1983, n.d. (University...

De Mars, Vernone.

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Stein, Aline MacMahon.

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Churchill, Henry S. (Henry Stern)

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Henry S. Churchill was an architect and city planner. From the guide to the Henry S. Churchill papers, 1929-1962, (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) Architect, city planner. From the description of Henry S. Churchill papers, 1929-1962. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074386 ...

Klaber, Eugene Henry

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American architect and urban planner (1883-1971). A graduate of Columbia University's School of Architecture and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Klaber practiced in New York City, in Chicago (with Ernest A. Grunsfeld, Jr), and in Washington, D.C. Klaber served as Director of Architecture, Rental Housing Division, for the Federal Housing Administration from 1934 to 1942. During this period, Klaber was also closely associated with urban planner Henry N. Wright. In 1944, Klaber joined the facult...

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...

Glickson, Arthur.

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New York (State). Reconstruction Commission. Housing Committee

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New York (State). Housing and Regional Planning Commission.

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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...

Regional Plan Association of America.

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Sewell, Marjorie, 1891-

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Cautley, Marjorie Sewell, 1891-

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Landscape architect. Cornell University Class of 1917. Marjorie Sewell Cautley, the daughter of Elbridge Sewell and Minnie Moore, was born into a Navy family and spent part of her early years in Japan and Guam. Eucated at the Packer Institute for Collegiate Studies in Brooklyn, N.Y.,she received a B.S. in landscape architecture from Cornell, 1917, and an M.A. in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania, 1943. After graduating from Cornell, she worked for Warren ...

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...

Mayer, Albert Alois

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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...

Regional Development Council of America.

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Mackaye, Benton, 1879-1975

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American Institute of Architects

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The Western Association of Architects (WAA) was founded in Chicago in 1884 as a rival organization of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Members consisted of architects from the Midwest and the South with chapters forming in many states. The WAA was the first architectural organization to petition for licensure of architects. Many architects were members of both WAA and AIA and a decision was made in 1889 for WAA to merge with AIA. From the guide to the Papers of the Western...

Ackerman, Frederick Lee, 1878-1950

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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...