"Scientific Versus Empirical Projections in Planning.: Journal of the American Institute of Planners; "The School Park Playground" Community Recreation Conference, November 1924; "Should the Planner Study Property Valuations and Trends as a Factor in Recommending For or Against Change of Use Classification From Residential to Non-Residential and Vice-Versa? What are the Peculiar Difficulties of Rural Zoning?" Annual Convention of the Pennsylvania Association of Planning Commissioners, Pittsburgh, May 23-24, 1940; "The Survey of City Planning Through Education," California Southland; "The Spectacular in City Building." Annuals of the American Academy of Political Science; "Staffing Small Town Planning Commissions." Clinic on Small Town Planning Problems. Boston, October 1952; "The State Enabling Act and the Master Plan." Panel Discussion of 'Planning, Zoning and the Law' at New Jersey State Conference on Planning and Developing, April 18, 1951; "State Planning," Stevens Institute Summer School, August 14, 1935; "State Planning as an Established Procedure." American City Planning Institute, Richmond, Virginia, May 3, 1936; "State Planning Exemplified by the New Jersey and Virginia Planning Projects." Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 9, 1934; "State Planning in New Jersey," Journal of Industry and Finance; "The Success of the City Plan Insured Through Education"; "Syracuse Demonstrates How Not to do the Right Thing." The Planners Journal, November 16, 1944, 1924-1952
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
- 1924-1952
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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