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"Planning During a Depression. The Present Inadequancy of City and County Planning." Civil Engineering. March 1935; "The Planning of a New Town." The American City Pamphlet; "Planning Post-War Capital Improvements."Annual Symposium of the Tax Institute." November 28, 1942; "Plannings - Present and Potential" Lecture at Cornell January 19, 1938; "The Planning Process as a Remedy" National Conference on City, Regional, State and National Planning, Cincinnati, May 1935; "The Planning Profession's Responsibility to the People," National Conference of the American Institute of Planners, Long Beach California, September 18, 1948; "A Planning Program for Trenton and Adjacent Areas." Trenton Magazine; "Planning to Prevent Urban Blight." Annual Meeting of the Governmental Research Association, Princeton, September 4, 1941; "Post-War Planning Needs and the Possibilities for the Interstate Commission on the Delaware River Basin and for the State of New Jersey"; "Preparedness for Peace." Clubwoman; "Principles Suggested for Incorporation in a County Planning Law for the State of New Jersey"; "Principles of Inter-Relation of City Planning and Housing"; "For Discussion in Connection with the Problem of Improving Facilities for Professional Education and Training in Planning"; "Statement of Procedure and Progress of the Housing Division of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works." Landscape Architecture. (October 1); "Possible Affect of Better Cities and Better Housing Upon Quantity and Quality of Population Increase." American Eugenics Society, New York City, April 1, 1938; "Procedures and Objectives of State Planning in the United States" Congress International De Geographie, Amsterdam, 1938; "Progress New Jersey State Planning Board." June 14, 1935, 1935-1948

 File — Box: 43, Folder: 34

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

From the Collection:

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

  • 1935-1948

Creator

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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