Regional Plan Association records, 1919-1997.

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Regional Plan Association records, 1919-1997.

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Minutes, correspondence, financial records, speeches and publications. Operational files, beginning with the papers for the Committee on the Regional Plan of New York of the Russell Sage Foundation and the papers of Charles D. Norton. Material from the New York Metropolitan Region Study done by Harvard and the Regional Plan Association (1956-1961); study of migration in industry by Henry Fagin (1953-1954), Arden House conferences; Inter-County Planning Conference; Race for Open Space, working notes and folders; American Institute of Planners committee reports, minutes, and correspondence; county reference files for the area served by RPA; American Planning and Civic Association, minutes, reports, and correspondence; information files on all subjects connected with urban life; and scrapbooks of clippings about the Regional Plan Association. Major correspondents include Thomas Adams, Frederic Delano, Richard Hurd, Lawson Purdy, Lewis Mumford, Richard Whitten, Edward Bassett, Lawrence Orton, and Flavel Shurtleff.

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Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Inter-County Planning Conference.

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Orten, Lawrence.

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Hurd, Richard.

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Arden House.

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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 ...

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 ...

Whitten, Richard

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American institute of planners

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Norton, Charles McKim.

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Lawyer, regional planner. From the description of Reminiscences of Charles McKim Norton : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741163 ...

Delano, Frederic.

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Purdy, Lawson, 1863-1959

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Lawyer, civic worker. From the description of Reminiscences of Lawson Purdy : oral history, 1948. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309725826 ...

American Planning and Civic Association

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The National League for Civic Improvement was established in 1900, and merged with the American Park and Outdoor Association in 1904 to form the American Civic Association. In 1935, this organization merged with the National Conference on City Planning to form the American Planning and Civic Association, which was later joined by the National Conference on City Planning. The American Planning and Civic Association later merged with Action, Inc., the State Urban Action Center, and Urban America, ...

Fagin, Henry, 1913-....

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New York Metropolitan Region Study.

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Regional Plan Association (New York, N.Y.)

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Russell Sage Foundation. Committee on the Regional Plan of New York.

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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...

Race for Open Space.

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Norton, Charles D.

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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...