Alan Rabinowitz papers

Reports and documents relating to his work in planning, housing, urban renewal, municipal finance and urban economics, which integrate the worlds of public planning, public finance, and private development.

Report on "Non-planning and Redevelopment in Boston," 1972; two bound volumes of reports on planning and land development in Florida, Missouri, California, and Chicago written while on the staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA. and other Arthur D. Little reports, 1960-1963; bound volume: "Industrial Zoning in Seattle, 1974;" bound volume, "Management of Tourism in Massachusetts," 1965. Also, M.I.T. dissertation, "Municipal Debt/Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations," 1969; "An Alternate Plan for Cooper Square," 1961; various Lambda Alpha publications; and selective bibliography and work history, 2006.

Materials about the Cambridge Institute, its New City Project, and its related Center for Community Economic Development.

Additional books, consulting reports and organizational materials, writings on historical underpinnings of city and regional planning, readings on progressive planning, professional papers and studies on urban planning/economics topics.

Research reports used for The Real Estate Gamble and Municipal Data Projection Project reports.

"Clara's Town: A Passion Play in the Years 1908-1910," an account by Alan Rabinowitz, with diary entries, relating to his mother Clara Greenhut. "Alan's Iconography of New York," 1914: an illustrated tour of places where members of their families (Rabinowitz and Wolf) have lived in Manhattan; places that are featured in the biography of Aaron Rabinowitz; including his connection to Fred F. French; and other connections to French's family and his companies.