"Discussion of Papers by Harlean James and Charles H. Cleney." National Conference on Planning, San Francisco, July 10, 1940; "National Planning 1942" American Society of Landscape Architects; "Nature, Purpose and Cost of County Planning in Pennsylvania," October 14, 1950; "Needed- A Better Basis for City and Regional Planning"; "Neglected Opportunities. Every Neighborhood, Every City, Every Community, Loses Something Through Failure to Plan" Civic Number of "Club Women's Magazine," December 8, 1939; "Review" Neighbourhoods of Small Homes, Robert Whitten and Thomas Adams. Harvard City Planning Studies; "The New American Falls, Idaho" League of California Municipalities; "New Jersey's First Comprehensive County Plan."; "New Jersey's Heritage- How Shall we Treat it." April 20, 1936; "New Jersey Moves Ahead with Local Planning and Zoning but few Municipalities are yet Taking Full Advantage of the Legislated Powers." New Jersey League Magazine; "Discussion of Paper by D.H. Sawyer New Opportunities for the Engineer in City Planning" City Planning Section, A.S.C.E., Chicago June 30, 1933; "Notes on School Planning and State Planning Boards and Their Relation to Public School Development" Better School Building Planning, Atlantic City, February 26, 1935; "Notes for the Unemployment Forum" January 9, 1936., 1933-1950, undated
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
- 1933-1950
- undated
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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