"Maintenance of Planning Standards in the Housing Emergency Program" American Institute of Planners, Tennessee October 19, 1946; "Making and Carrying Out the City or Regional Plan" Cornell University Lecture, February 23, 1931, May 3 1937; "Making of the Plan" National Conference on Planning at Cincinnati, May 20, 1935; "Manpower and Brain - Power in City and Regional Planning," Joint Meeting of the New York Architectural League and the New York Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects; "Maps and Surveys for Planning" American Congress on Surveying and Mapping; "A Master Plan for Recreation in New Jersey.: Third Annual Meeting New Jersey Parks and Recreation Association, October 25, 1940; "Material Required for a Regional Planning Study"; "The Mercer County Plan" 1932; "Million Dollar Community Contest", The Atlantic, August 13, 1936; "Review" Modern Town and Country Planning: A History of and Introduction to the Study of the Law and Practice of Modern Town and Country Planning in Great Britain. Jamis W.R. Adams; "Multiple Use of Public Lands." New Jersey Section of the American Waterworks Association at New Brunswick, New Jersey. February 7, 1940; "Municipal Planning in New Jersey." New Jersey Planning Conference. March 18, 1936; "Must Planning go on the Shelf During a Depression" City Planning Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers. January 17, 1935; " My Platform". American City Planning Institute in Annual Meeting at Washington, D.C. January 18-19, 1936, 1931-1946
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, reports, notes, questionnaires, articles, maps, contracts, pamphlets, brochures, ordinances, and legal notices related to city and state planning, primarily in the mid-Atlantic states. In addition to his private practice, papers deal with Black's membership in the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco; participation in the initial activities of the Regional Plan Association of San Francisco Bay Counties; and various other state and federal planning efforts in the 1930's. Correspondents include Frederick J. Adams, Thomas Adams, Charles Stern Ascher, Tracy Baldwin Augur, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Harland Bartholomew, Edward Murray Bassett, Alfred Bettman, Frederick Bigger, Walter Harold Blucher, Harold Sinley Buttenheim, Gilmore David Clarke, Arthur Coleman Comey, Jacob Leslie Crane, Jr., Frederick Dohram, Earle Sumner Draper, R.F. Engle, Livingston Farrand, Carl Feiss, Benjamin Antrim Haldeman, Justin Richardson Hartzog, Henry V. Hubbard, Harlean James, Harold MacLean Lewis, Thomas William Mackesey, Albert Mayer, Eugene Davis Montillon, Lewis Mumford, John Nolen, Robert Randall, Irving Root, Ladislas Segoe, Flavel Shurtleff, Clarence S. Stein, Armand Tibbitts, L. Deming Tilton, Raymond Unwin, Lawrence Veiller, Warren Jay Vinton, Samuel Price Wetherill, Jr., Gordon Whitnall, Robert M. Whitten, and Henry C. Wright.
Dates
- 1931-1946
Creator
- From the Collection: Black, Russell Van Nest, 1893-1969. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
47 cubic feet. (47 cubic feet.)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
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