Richard Alden McEwen oral history interview, 1998.

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Richard Alden McEwen oral history interview, 1998.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71782903

McEwen discusses his education; his city planning work in St. Louis, Santa Fe, Richmond, and Baton Rouge; the development of early subdivisions in Baton Rouge; street, drainage, and sewer projects; the Baton Rouge Planning Commission and City Council; urban renewal and the building of the Riverside Centroplex; the influence of petrochemical companies on the development of Baton Rouge; improvement of substandard housing; Mayor Tom Ed McHugh's Horizon Plan for Baton Rouge in the 1980s; and McEwen's role in developing a parking plan for Louisiana State University in 1982.

6 sound cassettes (8.5 hours);Transcript (202 leaves)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8085625

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.)

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McHugh, Tom Ed.

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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

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The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History was established in August 1991 to document the history of Louisiana State University. A department of LSU Libraries Special Collections, the Center conducts, collects, preserves, and makes available to scholars oral history interviews on Louisiana's social, political, cultural, and economic history. From the description of T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History records, 1990-1998. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 22696...

McEwen, Richard A.

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Richard Alden McEwen studied landscape architecture at Iowa State University and planned army camp sites during World War II. He was a city planner in St. Louis, Missouri; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Richmond, California, before becoming planning director for Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1953. He retired in 1980. From the description of Richard Alden McEwen oral history interview, 1998. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 71782903 ...

Dean, Pamela, 1946-

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Riverside Centroplex (Baton Rouge, La.)

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