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City planners.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

Alan Rabinowitz papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6708
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1960-2017.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Alan Rabinowitz papers

Alfred Bettman papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 52 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251674]
Identifier: 2774
Abstract

Microfilmed papers include correspondence, memoranda, drafts, lectures, clippings, minutes, articles, pamphlets, programs, budgets, reports, briefs, regulations, and records of conferences and committees pertaining to various planning agencies and projects. Also includes a photocopied "Draft of an Act for Urban Development and Redevelopment," by Alfred Bettman, 1943.

Dates: 1910-1945.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Alfred Bettman papers

Arthur Cort Holden papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3748
Abstract Collection includes extensive correspondence, blueprints, sketches, drawings, financial records, and photographs from Holden's private practice around New York City; correspondence, articles, surveys and reports documenting his service on many boards, committees, and commissions. Also included are drafts and copies of articles and books including The Settlement Idea and Sonnets for My City; and a bound volume, "Are Bankers Credit Allocators?", of photocopies of a collection of commentaries,...
Dates: 1920-1987.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Arthur Cort Holden papers

Carl Lessey Gardner papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3559
Dates: 1920-1976.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Carl Lessey Gardner papers

Charles Carsten Platt and Frederick Putnam Platt papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2852
Abstract

Charles Carsten Platt (Cornell University Class of 1901) and his brother, Frederick P. Platt, headed F.P. Platt & Brother, an architecture firm. The collection is mostly a file of jobs done by the Platts. Also includes insurance records, paid bills, cancelled checks, and blueprints and drawings.

Dates: [ca. 1937-1955].
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Charles Carsten Platt and Frederick Putnam Platt papers

Charles N. Lowrie papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6611
Dates: Majority of material found within 1892 - 1939; 1857 - 1955
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Charles N. Lowrie papers

Clarence Arthur Perry lantern slides

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3442
Abstract

Lantern slides used by Perry to accompany his lectures on city planning. Most depict scenes in and around New York City, and many depict Forest Hills Gardens. There are also slides of plans, charts, and narrative.

Dates: [ca.1914-1937]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Clarence Arthur Perry lantern slides

Earle Sumner Draper, Sr. papers

 Collection — Box 3: [Barcode: 31924112438001]
Identifier: 2745
Abstract

Primarily articles and speeches of Earle Sumner Draper, Sr., city planner. Also includes correspondence concerning a conference on urbanism held in Cambridge, Massachusetts in March 1942.

Dates: 1933-1969.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Earle Sumner Draper, Sr. papers

Elbert Peets papers

 Collection — Volume 1: [Barcode: 31924064723376]
Identifier: 2772
Abstract

Includes correspondence, reports, clippings, photographs, plans, and drawings related to projects on which Peets worked; material on the L'Enfant plan for Washington, D.C., of which Peets was a major proponent and guardian; material related to articles and books by or about Peets, including photographs and negatives from the book Civic Art; and personal correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and family papers.

Dates: 1883-1983,-1904-1974 (bulk)
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Elbert Peets papers

F. Stuart Chapin publications and papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4092
Abstract

Printed and manuscript versions of publications by Chapin.

Dates: 1945-2015.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / F. Stuart Chapin publications and papers

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