COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes carbon typescripts of correspondence between Alfred Bettman and officials of the Federal Housing Administration, with copies directed to Oppermann; memoranda; findings of committees; reports and drafts; legislative acts; notes; proposals; agenda; studies; published proceedings of the Conference on City Planning Administration in Chicago, 1936; correspondence as Director of City Planning, City and County of San Francisco and as Director of the Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission; speeches, 1926-1964; and scrapbooks.
Dates
- 1926-1964.
Creator
- Oppermann, Paul, 1903-1977. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
City planner and planning consultant.
In the 1940s, Oppermann advised on federal housing legislation as a planner for the Federal Housing Administration. He was planning director of San Francisco city and county from 1949-58, and was the first director of the Illinois planning agency, predecessor to the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission. He served as president of the American Institute of Planners and as assistant director of the American Society of Planning Officials. Oppermann lectured in metropolitan planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a member of the International Fraternity of Lambda Alpha, Ely Chapter.
Extent
2 cubic feet. (2 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence between Alfred Bettman and officials of the Federal Housing Administration; findings of committees; reports; legislative acts; proposals; agenda; proceedings of the Conference on City Planning Administration in Chicago; correspondence as Director of City Planning, City and County of San Francisco and of the Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission; speeches; and scrapbooks.
Physical Description
Correspondence, speeches, papers, scrapbooks.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- M. Moran
- Date completed:
- Sept. 1986
- EAD encoding:
- Julia Guarneri Aug. 2002
- Bettman, Alfred, 1873-1945.
- City planners.
- City planning -- California -- San Francisco.
- City planning -- Illinois.
- City planning.
- Conference on City Planning Administration (Location of meeting: Chicago). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1936 :.)
- Housing authorities.
- Housing policy.
- Lambda Alpha International. Ely Chapter
- Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission
- United States. Federal Housing Administration
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by M. Moran
- Date
- Aug. 2002
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu