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Location of collection:: George Mason University

2400 Fenwick Library

Special Collections Research Center

Fenwick Library MS2FL

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA 22030

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Phone: (703) 993-2220

Fax: (703) 993-2669

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Preferred citation:: Partners for Livable Communities collection, C0021, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Summary

Extent:: 27 Linear Feet 54 boxes
Creator:: Partners for Livable Communities
Abstract:: This collection contains planning reports, studies, theses, dissertations, policy proposals, books, magazine articles, meeting minutes, and congressional hearings on various aspects of urban planning and community development dating mostly from the 1970s and 1980s. These materials were gathered by the Partners for Livable Communities in its effort to form a clearing house of information on urban and regional planning under the NEH-funded Architecture, Design and Planning Program.
Language:: English
Preferred citation:: Partners for Livable Communities collection, C0021, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains planning reports, studies, theses, dissertations, policy proposals, books, magazine articles, meeting minutes, and congressional hearings on various aspects of urban planning and community development dating mostly from the 1970s and 1980s. Much of the material deals with cities and regions in the United States, but the collection also features reports and studies on China and a number of European countries. The materials included in this collection were gathered by the Partners for Livability Community in its effort to form a clearing house of information on urban and regional planning under the NEH-funded Architecture, Design and Planning Program.

Series 1, Adaptive Reuse, contains materials on historic preservation and the reuse of old buildings and spaces for new purposes. It includes books outlining the cultural and economic benefits of adaptive reuse as well as case studies on the adaptive use of specific buildings, including industrial centers, loft apartments, museums, schools, historic railroad stations, and the Old St. Louis Post Office.

Series 2, Archaeology, includes a hand-full of materials on urban and industrial archaeology in California, the Northeast, and London.

Series 3, Central Business Districts, is the largest section of the PLC collection. It contains a number of planning reports, policy proposals, and books pertaining to the revitalization of central business districts and enterprise zones. The materials cover an array of U.S. cities including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Baltimore, Bethesda, Washington, DC, Louisville, Dallas, Houston, Minneapolis, and Portland, Oregon. Some of the materials also deal with Canadian cities including Calgary, Edmonton, and Toronto as well as European cities including London, Berlin, and Amsterdam. Some specific items include a 1981 study on the revitalization of New York's 42nd St, a 1980 review of urban renewal in Amsterdam, a Bethesda streetscape plan from 1984, a comprehensive plan for the central city area of Racine, Wisconsin, proposals for retail development in Washington, D.C., and several studies on malls, farmers markets, and sidewalk cafes from the 1970s and 1980s.

Series 4, Cultural Facilities, contains materials on the municipal funding of public art and the development of community cultural facilities such as art centers, theaters, concert halls, and opera houses. The cities covered include Seattle, Rochester, Lowell, Knox, and Washington, D.C.

Series 5, Design, contains various technical, prescriptive, and theoretical materials on urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture. The subjects covered range from studies of classical Greek, Gothic, and twelfth-century Chinese architecture to surveys of contemporary British, German, Italian, and Swedish architecture to manuals on pedestrian design and articles on vandalism deterrence. The cities and regions covered include Berlin, Australia, Calgary, New Orleans, Brooklyn, rural Texas, and Concho, Arizona.

Series 6, Energy, contains numerous reports and studies on energy conservation planning as well as several congressional hearings on conservation policy. Most of the materials therein cover general issues (as opposed to case studies) including solar energy, bicycle transportation design, and making old buildings and historic districts energy efficient.

Series 7, Environment, contains plans and guidelines for environmental design and conservation in various regions including California, Delaware, northern Virginia, and Athens, Greece. The subjects covered include highway noise and beautification, rural land development, lake management, and water conservation.

Series 8, Handicap Accessibility, contains a small number of manuals on the incorporation of accessibility features into architecture and urban design.

Series 9, Open Spaces, Parks, and Recreation, consists mostly of plans and reports on the design and development of open spaces, parks, and cultural facilities. The subjects addressed include urban open spaces, parks, zoos, waterfront revitalization, and urban forestry in such cities as Dayton, Pittsburgh, Camden, Chattanooga, San Francisco, and Tampa.

Series 10, Public and Private Partnerships, includes reports and studies on the projects of various public and private partnerships aimed at developing the local economy, mitigating social inequity, and providing social services such as child care and urban renewal to the community. The partnerships examined in this series include the Bronx Land Reclamation Program, the Citibank Flatbush Project, the Missouri Neighborhood Assistance Program, and the Navy Broadway Complex Project.

Series 11, Tourism, contains reports and proposals pertaining to the promotion and development of tourism. The materials deal with such topics as the development of historic centers for tourism, tourist impact control, the 1980 and 1981 Travel Outlook Forum proceedings, the promotion of black material culture, and the "gritty city enhancement strategy," which aims to capitalize on the "gritty" ambience of old working-class neighborhoods and industrial centers as tourist attractions.

Series 12, Transportation, contains materials on the design and improvement of transportation infrastructure. Most of the studies cover general topics, but the series includes case studies of New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and the Netherlands. The topics covered include automobile restricted zones, center-city parking and parking lot design, transportation architecture, the economics of transportation restriction, traffic control design, railway and trolley transit, bicycle transportation and parking, and pedestrian relief areas.

Series 13, Urban Planning, is the largest section of the PLC collection after Series 3 (Central Business Districts). This series contains planning reports, policy statements, and congressional hearings on a wide range of urban planning and community development issues including economic development, land use, municipal tax policy, and suburban sprawl. Most of the materials deal with U.S. cities including Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Madison, and Cincinatti, and such North American regions as Arizona, California, Texas, Oregon, New Jersey, Hawaii, Ontario, and British Columbia. However, it also contains studies on urban planning in China and a number of European countries including France, Italy, Spain, Poland, and the Netherlands. Within this series one will find numerous publications from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, several studies on Court House Plaza in Arlington, a 1972 report on Fairfax County, The President's National Urban Policy Report of 1980 and 1988, Reports of the European Campaign for Urban Renaissance, meeting minutes of the Council of Europe's 5th Symposium in 1977, and a dozen case studies from the "States and Urban Strategies" series.

Series 14, Oversize, contains oversize books on subjects that would otherwise be included in the following series: Central Business Districts, Cultural Facilities, Open Spaces, Parks and Recreation, and Urban Planning. It contains studies and planning proposals with large color photographs on San Diego, San Francisco, Baton Rouge, Chicago, and Providence, as well as Dublin, Ireland, and the Hague.

This series contains materials on historic preservation and the reuse of old buildings and spaces for new purposes. It includes books outlining the cultural and economic benefits of adaptive reuse as well as studies detailing the adaptive use of specific buildings, including industrial centers, loft apartments, museums, schools, historic railroad stations, and the Old St. Louis Post Office.

John Weese, William Arno Werner, James M. Flack, et al.

Thomas J. Martin and Melvin A. Gamzon

Judith B. Williams,

Andy Leon Harney

Barbaralee Diamonstein

Robert E. Mendelson

Conference on Recycling Old Buildings (1974 : Boston, Mass.)

Louis Joyner

Ellen Bussard

Albert A. Bogdan

Randolph Langenbach

David Listokin

Richard J. Roddewig,

Massachusetts Bureau of Building Construction

Stephen and Stephen Properties, Inc.

Anderson Notter Finegold, Inc.

Judith N. Getzels

Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies

U.S. Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service

Joint Project to Preserve Small Downtown Buildings

This series includes a hand-full of materials on urban and industrial archaeology in California, the Northeast, London, and other regions.

David A. Fredrickson

Brian Hobley

E.G. Chandler, FRIBA

John G. Waite and Diana S. Waite

Lee Hanson, editor

Michael Rhodes

The largest section of the PLC collection, this series contains a number of planning reports, policy proposals, and books pertaining to the revitalization of central business districts and enterprise zones. The materials cover an array of cities in the U.S. including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Baltimore, Bethesda, Washington, DC, Louisville, Dallas, Houston, Minneapolis, and Portland, Oregon. Some of the materials also deal with Canadian cities including Calgary, Edmonton, and Toronto as well as European cities including London, Berlin, and Amsterdam. Some specific items include a 1981 study on the revitalization of New York's 42nd St, a 1980 review of urban renewal in Amsterdam, a Bethesda streetscape plan from 1984, a comprehensive plan for the central city area of Racine, Wisconsin, proposals for retail development in Washington, D.C., and several studies on malls, farmers markets, and sidewalk cafes from the 1970s and 1980s.

Seattle, Washington Land Use and Transportation Project

Downtown Research and Development Center

New York State Development Corporation

Floyd, Kennedy, and Associates

Koen de Pater,

Charles A. Stansfield,

Norbury Wayman,

Rockville, Maryland Department of Planning

Harry Ristock,

Yona Friedman

Thomas R. Deans Associates

Phyllis W. Haserot

National League of Cities

MATCH Institution

Toronto, Ontario Planning Board

Racine, Wisconsin Central City Committee

International Downtown Association

J. Thomas Black

Wiliam Donald Schaefer

Rochester, N.Y. Department of Community Development

Bureau of Municipal Research, Toronto, Canada

John C. Melaniphy, Jr.

U.S. Comptroller General

Myrick, Newman, Dahlberg & Partners

Nory Miller

Okamoto/Liskamm, Inc.

George Baird

Cyril B. Paumier

Greater Washington Board of Trade

Louisville Central Area, Inc.

City of Edmonton Planning Department

Anthony M. Caruso

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Department of City Planning

Laurence A. Alexander

Carla J. Robinson

Urban Land Institute

Louisville Central Area, Inc.

Project for Public Spaces

San Francisco, California Department of City Planning

Laurence A. Alexander, editor

Lu Weiming

J. Thomas Black

Downtown Retail Development Conference (1983)

Council of State Community Affairs Agencies

David Devine

Christopher Wzacny and Associates

Margaret Bush Wilson,

Joseph Burstein

Stuart M. Butler

Jon A. Stewart

Project for Public Spaces

Katharine L. Bradbury

Philip A. Kemp

Senator fur Bau- und Wohnungswesen, Berlin

Janet Garrett

Barry Benepe

San Francisco, California Department of City Planning

Downtown Council of Hartford

Brad Hokanson

Regional Planning Council (Baltimore, Maryland)

Geddes Brecher Qualls Cunningham, Architects

Arthur L. Grey

Laurence A. Alexander

William H. Whyte

Stephen Serchuk

Harriet Friedlander

Kevin Lynch

James Bailey

Department of Metropolitan Development

Real Estate Research Corporation

Renata Von Tscharner

States of Jersey Island Development Committee

David Jones

Urban Land Institute

District of Columbia Office of Planning and Development

Wallace, Roberts and Todd

American Society of Planning Officials

Ontario Ministry of Housing

Judith D. Feins

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Project for Public Spaces, Inc.

Tischler, Montasser and Associates

Christopher Wzacny and Associates

Davis, Brody and Associates

San Francisco, California Department of City Planning

Richard Cherry

Suzanne G. Dane, editor

Judith Joy

William H. Whyte

Frederick T. Aschman

Grace Dawson

Toronto, Ontario Planning Board

Abram, Nowski & McLaughlin, Associates

Rice Center for Community Design and Research

Carla S. Crane

Adam Simms

Charles Hall Page & Associates

Wilbur Smith and Associates

Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation

Jan Schaefer

Raymond L. Sterling,

Norman M. Mintz

Yonkers, N.Y. Planning Bureau

Laurence A. Alexander

Don Erickson

Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.

Council of Europe

W. Arthur Mehoff

Lawrence M. Irvin

Urban Land Institute

Robert Craycroft

John Sower

Barton-Aschman Associates

J. Ross McKeever

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Phyllis Myers

Urban Trees Design Group

Planning Development Services

Rockville, Maryland

Gerhard B. Sidler

Portland, Or. Development Commission

Robert Bann

Urban Land Institute

Gail Garfield Schwartz

Public Affairs Conference (1982 : Brown University)

Institution for Social Policy Studies

This series contains materials on the municipal funding of public art and the improvement of community cultural facilities such as art centers, concert halls, opera houses, and theaters. The cities covered include Seattle, Rochester, Lowell, Knox, and Washington, D.C.

Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates

Lois Friedland

Susan Mooring Hollis

University of Akron. Center for Urban Studies

J. Mark Davidson Schuster,

Christine Ann Fedukowski

Don S. Anderson

Loti Falk

Tracy Dillard

Catherine M. Howett

Twentieth Century Fund

Jerry Hagstrom

Carr, Lynch Associates

James L. Shanahan

Jane Tublin

Ralph Burgard

League of Washington Theatres

Midwest Research Institute

Vision, Inc.

Bill Bryson

Hagi International Sculpture Symposium (1981 : Hagi, Japan)

Robert Lennon

David Cwi

Adolfo V. Nodal

Suman Sorg

Fish Buckhurst

Robert A. Peck,

Andrew Leicester

North Loop Theater Management Committee

Jan Booth Sheridan

Jamie Malanowski

Louise W. Wiener

Sasaki Associates

Morrish & Fleissig, Associates

Sondra Clarke Boliek

Yerba Buena Task Force on Finance

Vivian Kahn

Wilkie Farr & Gallagher

Andrew Euston

San Francisco, California Redevelopment Agency

This series contains various technical, prescriptive, and theoretical materials on urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture. The subjects covered range from studies of classical Greek, Gothic, and twelfth-century Chinese architecture to surveys of contemporary British, German, Italian, and Swedish architecture to manuals on pedestrian design and articles on vandalism deterrence. The cities and regions covered include Berlin, Australia, Calgary, New Orleans, Brooklyn, rural Texas, and Concho, Arizona.

Peter Cook

William T. Brown

Thomas H. Creighton

Vision, Inc.

Andrew Hyde

Michael Griggs

Michael N. Corbett

PACE

Bryan P. Melnyk

Victor Hausner and Brian Robson

Else Glahn

Ronald L. Thomas,

Barbara A. Cole

Tulane School of Architecture

Willam H. Hunse, College of Architecture, Arizona State University

William Brill Associates

Paul D. Spreiregen,

Joyce, Copeland, Vaughan & Nordfors, Jones & Jones

James A. Wise

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Michael John Pittas,

Moshe Safdie,

Charles E. Beveridge

Buckhurst, Fish, Hutton, Katz

James A. Wise,

Royner Banham

John P. Eberhard

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

John Zeisel,

A.S.L.A. Minority Recruitment Task Force

Peter M. Molloy

various authors, National League of Cities

San Diego City Council Committee on Rules, Legislation, and Intergovernmental Relations

Alan G. Levy

Loretta Johnson and Arlene Kennedy, committee chairs

Wallace Rappe,

Royston Landau

Gunther Feuerstein

Vittorio Gregotti

Michael Parker

Margaret A. Corwin

Roger C. Ferri

Gregory P. Benz

Diana Lands

Danial Navas

Sidney Cohn

Irving Kristol and Nathan Glazer, editors

Charles King Hoyt, AIA

Joseph Grange

Gerard Singer

Association for the Study of Man-Environment

Council of Europe

Diana Agrest

Mondel Rogers, Texas Tech University

Alan Karchmer

H. Weese,

Nancy B. Oleksa

Donald Appleyard and Allan Jacobs

Dennis J. Dingemans

Barton Myers

Craig Campbell

Donald Appleyard

This series contains numerous reports and studies on energy conservation planning as well as several congressional hearings on conservation policy. Most of the materials therein cover general issues (as opposed to case studies) including solar energy, bicycle transportation design, and making old buildings and historic districts energy efficient.

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. Office of Community Planning and Development

U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance ...

Allan D. Garnaas

Jerryne Philleo,

Robert L. Thayer

Jeanne W. Powell

U.S. Congress House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs

Thomas Vonier Associates

Congressional Research Service

Matt Swanson

Rufus E. Miles

Toronto, Ontario Commissioner of Planning and Development

Dane County, Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission

Land Design/Research, Inc.

Subcommittee on Advanced Entergy Technologies...

St. Paul, Minnesota

Reg Lang

Martin Jaffe

Duncan Erley

This series contains plans and guidelines for environmental design and conservation in various regions including California, Delaware, northern Virginia, and Athens, Greece. The subjects covered include highway noise and beautification, rural land development, lake management, and water conservation.

Vision, Inc.

Alfred Heller, editor

San Diego, California City Planning Department

Roger J. Vaughan and Larry Huckins

Barbara A. Davis

K. V. Bailey

W. Thomas Lamm

James H. M. Marshall

EDRA 3/ar 8 Conference (1972 : UCLA)

D. Michael Murtha

Charles Floyd

Perrin Stryker,

Urban Systems Research & Engineering, Inc.

William A. Hanson

Gary A. Moll

American Society of Planning Officials

Joan Davidson

Robert A. Lambe

Mary Hufford

State University of Utrecht

Gary O. Robinette

Ministry of Physical Planning, Housing, and the Environment; Athens, Greece

Duncan Erley

Anne Whiston Spirn

Samuel N. Stokes

William Toner

Welford Sanders

This series contains a small number of manuals on the incorporation of accessibility features into architecture and urban design.

Larry Kirk

Charles Parrott,

Pittsburgh Architects Workshop

Ronald L. Mace

Susan Hammerman and Barbara Duncan, editors

Ronald L. Mace

James H. Melvin

This series consists mostly of plans and reports on the design and development of open spaces, parks, and cultural facilities. The subjects addressed include urban open spaces, parks, zoos, waterfront revitalization, and urban forestry in such cities as Dayton, Pittsburgh, Camden, Chattanooga, San Francisco, and Tampa.

Project for Public Spaces

Kathryn Mathewson

Wallace Roberts and Todd

Donald B. Neuwirth, editor

Ann Breen and Dick Rigby

Carr, Lynch Associates, Inc.

Mark Francis, Lisa Cashdan, and Lynn Paxson

Mollie K. Hughes

Gary J. Willmott

City of Dayton, Ohio

Bay Area Greenbelt Congress, San Francisco

Patricia Leigh Brown

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Barbara Goldstein, editor

Mark Francis, Lisa Cashdan, and Lynn Paxson

Daniel L. Leedy, Robert M. Maestro, etc.

Charles E. Beveridge, editor

Randolph McAusland, Director, Design Arts Program, NEA

Comptroller General

Continuous Recreation Planning Program, U.S. Department of Interior

Pittsburgh Department of City Planning

Leon County Board of County Commissioners

James William Harvey

Martin Jaffe

Design Research Consultants

Department of Planning and Economic Development

Verna Semotuk, Consultant, City of Vancouver Social Planning Department

Department of Community Development

Department of Engineering

Mitchell L. Moss

Carr, Lynch Associates, Inc.

Park Practice Program

Silas Little, editor

Mollie K. Hughes

Center City Association, San Diego, California

Ann Breen

Douglas M. Wrenn, Associate, Urban Land Institute

Ann Breen and Dick Rigby

Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service

Patricia Weil, Frances Fifs, and Kristina Goodrich

Neighborhood Preservation Project, Arcade, New York

This series includes reports and studies on the projects of various public and private partnerships aimed at developing the local economy, mitigating social inequity, and providing social services such as child care and urban renewal to the community. The partnerships examined in this series include the Bronx Land Reclamation Program, the Citibank Flatbrush Project, the Missouri Neighborhood Assistance Program, and the Navy Broadway Complex Project.

New York City Open Space Coalition, Inc.

Economic Development Assistance Consortium

Shelley Smith

National Council for Urban Economic Development

Office of the Mayor, City of Danbury, Connecticut

Geraldine Bachman

Mary Beth Gordon

National Trust for Historic Preservation

Jerold Altman

Milton Kotler

Nelson Rosenbaum and Milton Kotler

Mahlon Apgar, editor

Craig Smith

Dennis R. Marino

Jon L. Wellhoefer

Research and Policy Committee for Economic Development

R. Scott Fosler and Renee A. Berger

Perry Davis

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Daniel R. Mandelker

Donna L. Sorkin, Nancy B. Ferris, and James Hudak

Bill Flood

U.S. Office of Technology Assessment

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

Joint Development Marketplace

T. William Patterson

Wendell W. Phillips, Woodland East Community Organization

This series contains reports and proposals pertaining to the promotion and development of tourism. The materials deal with such topics as the development of historic centers for tourism, the 1980 and 1981 Travel Outlook Forum proceedings, tourist impact control, the promotion of black material culture, and the "gritty city enhancement strategy," which aims to capitalize on the "gritty" ambience of old working-class neighborhoods and industrial centers as tourist attractions.

Travel Outlook Forum (1980)

Travel Outlook Forum (1981)

Civic Trust, Scotland and Whales

National Capital Planning Commission

S. Henry Edmunds

Ronald Lee Fleming, President, Townscape Institute

Everett L. Fly and La Barbara Wigfall Fly

Environmental Awareness Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison

International Touring Alliance

James Marston Fitch

Community and Economic Development Task Force

Kate Brower, Graduate Thesis, Columbia University

Roger F. Teal

This series contains materials on the design and improvement of transportation infrastructure. Most of the studies cover general topics, but the series includes case studies of New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and the Netherlands. The topics covered include automobile restricted zones, center-city parking and parking lot design, transportation architecture, the economics of transportation restriction, traffic control design, railway and trolley transit, bicycle transportation and parking, and pedestrian relief areas.

U.S. Federal Highway Administration

Lajos Heder

Moore-Heder Architects

Karlhans Muller

Cambridge Arts Council (MA)

Alan M. Voorhees and Associates

Ellen Fletcher

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Werner Brog and Otto G. Forg

American Public Transportation Association

Public Technology, Inc.

Toronto, Ontario Commissioner of Public Works

Joseph Passonneau and Partners

Peter W. G. Newman

New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority

George Perkin

U.S. Department of Transportation. Task Force on Design, Art ...

Community Design Exchange

Project for Public Spaces

Werner Brog and Ehrhard Erl

Parking Consultants Council

Flint, Mich. Downtown Development Authority

Paul Tritenbach

Public Technology, Inc.

Mark W. Frankena

Public Technology, Inc.

Columbia University Center for Advanced Research in Urban and Environmental Affairs

Richard E. Nathan

American Public Transit Association

Gale R. Hruska

Civic Trust

J. Paul Dean

Raquel Ramati

William H. Whyte

Daniel T. Smith

New England Municipal Center

Howard J. Simkowitz

Douglass B. Lee

Jeff Oberdorfer and Associates

Donald Appleyard and Sue M. Gerson

Harry Schwartz

J. Michael Thompson

American Public Transit Association

AIT Congress on Leisure and Touring (6th : 1977)

Slade Hulbert and Paul Fowler

Elizabeth Rogers

Neil Wilson

Bureau of Governmental Research

Canada Development Control Division

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

Richard F. Roti

Norene Dann Martin

Institute of Traffic Engineers

Akron, Ohio. Divisions of Design and Zoning

Urban Consortium for Technology Initiatives

Victoria Williams

Ronald J. Lenney

Michael G. Ferreri

John Roberts

Nikki DiVette

Institute of Public Administration

Louis Chapin

Werner Brog and Erhard Erl

National Industrial Zoning Committee

Downtown People Mover Workshop (1st : 1978)

International Symposium on Neighborhood Traffic Restraints

Yonkers, N.Y. Department of Community Development

Steve Olson

Rapid Recovery, Inc.

Anthony R. Sloan

Werner Brog and Bernd Kuffner

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Richard Herbert

Federal German Ministry of Regional Planning

Department of City Planning, Los Angeles, California

Richard O. Baubach

Donald P. Bowman

James E. Peterson and the National Council for Urban Economic Development

Cynthia Whitehead

U.S. Technology Sharing Office

U.S. Department of Transportation

Downtown Development District, New Orleans

National League of Cities

Paul O. Roberts

C. Kenneth Orski

Howard J. Simkowitz

Werner Brog and Erhart Erl

Sandra Kolichman

Royal Dutch Touring Club

The largest section of the PLC collection after Series 3 (Central Business Districts), this series contains planning reports, policy statements, and congressional hearings on a wide range of urban planning and community development issues including economic development, land use, municipal tax policy, and suburban sprawl. Most of the materials deal with U.S. cities including Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Madison, and Cincinatti, and such North American regions as Arizona, California, Texas, Oregon, New Jersey, Hawaii, Ontario, and British Columbia. However, it also contains studies on urban planning in China and a number of European countries including France, Italy, Spain, Poland, and the Netherlands. Within this series one will find numerous publications from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, several studies on Court House Plaza in Arlington, a 1972 report on Fairfax County, The President's National Urban Policy Report of 1980 and 1988, Reports of the European Campaign for Urban Renaissance, meeting minutes of the Council of Europe's 5th Symposium in 1977, and a dozen case studies from the "States and Urban Strategies" series.

Council on Development Choices for the '80s

Cambridge, MA Community Development Department

Jim R. Lloyd

Hoyt Gimlin

Christopher Tunnard,

Leo Molinaro

Richard J. Roddewig

Lawrence P. Witzling

Robert B. Teska

Paul Bracken

Seattle, Wash. Office of Policy and Evaluation

Frederic Vester

Planning and Conservation Foundation

Arthur Jackson

Institute of Governmental Research

Deborah A. Straub

Peggy Saari

Mary Reilly McCall

Subcommittee on the City, 95th Congress, second session

Larry H. Long and Donald C. Dahmann

Nicholas Falk

Markku Lankinen

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Kenneth T. Jackson

Yves Dauge

Kathy La Tour

Roger J. Vaughan and June A. Sekera

Twin Cities Metropolitan Council

House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, first session

Urban Land Institute

Economic Adjustment Committee

Department of Regional Economic Expansion

Gwen Bell, editor

Roy Worskett

Urban Land Institute

American Institute of Architects

House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, Ninety-Fifth Congress, first session

J.E. Roullier

John J. Koelemij

Council on Environmental Quality

James Nathan Miller

Gurney Breckenfeld

Joan Rafols Esteve

International Federation for Housing and Planning

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Philip S. Schaenman

Kathryn Welch

House Committee on the District of Columbia, Ninety-Fifth Congress, first session

Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

Urban Land Institute

National Council for Urban Economic Development

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

City Development Department

Peter Heimburger

Council on Environmental Quality

Payne-Maxie Consultants

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Swansea City Council Planning Department

Urban Land Institute

Regional Economic Expansion

Jonathan Barnett, Joseph Riley, etc.

Nory Miller

H. Jeffrey Leonard

Yukio Nishimura

Haskell G. Ward,

Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, Ninety-Eighth Congress, second session

Weiming Lu

National League of Cities

Congress of Cities

Lord Bellwin

Hugo Priemus

Thompson R. Smith, D. Ernest Cook, and Peter R. Stein

Neighborhood Progress Administration

Council of Europe

Urban Land Institute

Frank E. Reynolds`

Urban Land Institute

American Institute for Architects

James Hecimovich and JoAnn C. Butler

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Joop Linthorst

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Francisco Pol

Home Builders Institute and the National Association of Home Builders

San Diego Planning Commission

Paul R. Porter and David C. Sweet

Basil Bean

Norman E.P. Pressman

Anthony F. Gantner, editor, California Tomorrow

San Francisco Department of City Planning

New Jersey Committee, Regional Plan Association

J.P. Lacaze

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Larry H. Long

James M. Banovetz, International City Management Association

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Ministry of Municipal Affairs

Dwight E. Jensen, editor

City of New York Department of Planning

Lizette Weiss

Richard G. RuBino

Charles R. Warren

Morton J. Tenzer and Carol Lewis

Charles R. Warren

William M. Capron

David Cason, Jr.

Richard Lehne and James Robinson

Deil S. Wright

James G. Coke

John M. DeGrove and Nancy E. Stroud

Charles M. Christian and Connie L. Williams

Leanne Aronson and Carol Shapiro

Minnesota Chapter of the American Planning Association

Robert K. Yin and Douglas Yates

American Institute of Architects

Department of Budget and Planning, Atlanta, Georgia

House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, Ninety-Fifth Congress, first session

George G. Wynne

Jacques Houlet, Council of Europe

Manuel Ribas i Piera, Council of Europe

Hans-Ole Hansen, Council of Europe

Efren Garcia Fernandez, Council of Europe

Lucio Gambi, Council of Europe

Jesus Leal and Roberto Sancho, Council of Europe

Jean-Pierre Vouga, Council of Europe

Fernando Fernandez-Cavada, Council of Europe

Jack Robertson and Andrew Euston

Congressman Henry S. Reuss, House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, Ninety-Fifth Congress, first session

Emrys Jones

Council of Europe

National Association of Towns and Townships

Civic Trust/Center for Environmental Interpretation

U.S. President's Interagency Coordinating Council

Congressional Quarterly, Inc.

Council for Economic Planning and Development, Executive Yuan

Phyllis Myers, The Conservation Foundation

James E. Bergram and James D. Mertes, APA

Mark J. Kasoff

Roger J. Vaughan

Edwin A. Winckler and Janet A. Cady

Center for Urban Studies

Peter Hall

N.J.M. Nelissen, Council of European Municipalities, Dutch Section

William L. Whited

Stanislaw Jankowski, Warsaw Town Planning Office

Richard Bartholomew

Welford Sanders

This series contains oversize books on subjects that would otherwise be included in the following series: Central Business Districts, Cultural Facilities, Open Spaces, Parks and Recreation, and Urban Planning. It contains studies and planning proposals with large color photographs on San Diego, San Francisco, Baton Rouge, Chicago, and Providence, as well as Dublin, Ireland, and the Hague.

Bryce Moreland

Chicago Plan Commission

Johnette L. Isham

Dublin Urban Study

Interface Providence Design Team

Regional Plan Association

San Francisco, California Redevelopment Agency

Portland, Or. Development Commission

San Francisco, California Department of City Planning

Biographical / historical:

Partners for Livable Communities (PLC) is a national, nonprofit organization working to restore and renew American communities by providing information, leadership and guidance that help communities help themselves. Founded by a consortium of the National Endowment of the Arts in 1977 under the title "Partners for Livable Places," the organization initially focused on design and culture as resources for livability.

During the 1980s the organization expanded its scope to address the economic concerns of communities and launched a number of programs, each focusing on a specific problem area of community development. The Economics of Amenity program secured PLC's place as a national resource dedicated to the economic value of using amenities for community development. It was soon followed by three other programs - Cities in Transition, The New Civics, and Celebrate the American Community - which approached community development in a more holistic manner that took open spaces and cultural centers into consideration as well as the impact of social and physical changes to the urban landscape.

During the 1990s the Shaping Growth in America program was launched to address issues of social inequity, children and families, minorities and the poor. The 1990s also brought a new name, "Partners for Livable Communities," and a redefinition of the Partners' Resource Center as the National Center for Community Action. PLC continues to work toward the growth and improvement of American communities to this day.

Acquisition information:

Donated by Partners for Livable Communities in 2008.

Processing information:

Processed in 2008 and 2009 by Eron Ackerman and Jordan Patty. EAD markup completed in January 2009 by Eron Ackerman. Finding aid updated by Amanda Menjivar in February 2023.

Arrangement:

Arranged into 14 series by subject with each series organized alphabetically by title.

Series

Series 1: Adaptive Reuse, 1972-1981 (Boxes 1-2)
Series 2: Archaeology, 1967-1982 (Box 2)
Series 3: Central Business Districts, 1960-1989 (Boxes 2-13)
Series 4: Cultural Facilities, 1966-1989 (Boxes 13-16)
Series 5: Design, 1962-1989 (Boxes 17-23)
Series 6: Energy, 1975-1983 (Boxes 23-25)
Series 7: Environment, 1970-1989 (Boxes 25-28)
Series 8: Handicap Accessibility, 1975-1980 (Boxes 28-29)
Series 9: Open Spaces, Parks, and Recreation, 1971-1990 (Boxes 29-32)
Series 10: Public and Private Partnerships, 1976-1989 (Boxes 32-34)
Series 11: Tourism, 1965-1990 (Boxes 34-35)
Series 12: Transportation, 1962-1990 (Boxes 35-41)
Series 13: Urban Planning, 1956-1994 (Boxes 41-52)
Series 14: Oversize, 1967-1987 (Boxes 53-54)

Physical location:

R10, C1, S6 - C2, S7 R11, C1, S1 Map Case 11.5

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Buildings -- Remodeling for other use -- United States
Central business districts -- United States
Energy Conservation -- United States
Open spaces -- United States
Planned communities
Tourism -- United States
Transportation -- United States -- Planning
City planning -- United States
City planning

Collection