urban planning

Research archive of Besim S. Hakim

Donald A. Schön was a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning from 1968 until his death in 1997. The collection documents Schön’s research in organizational theory and urban planning and includes correspondence, publications, research files, reports, and working papers.

This collection contains personal and professional papers of Frederick J. Adams, a professor of the Department of Architecture, and later the Department of City and Regional Planning at MIT. A small number of reports and administrative records of the MIT Department of City and Regional Planning, 1937-1969, and its successor, the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, are included in the collection.

This series consists of maps, architectural drawings, and other drawings in the archive, most of which arrived separately from other documentation. All of the items in this series were given accession numbers, by which they are listed in Appendix I. Many of these graphic materials have been digitized and that is indicated by a "D"in the appendix I, which also lists the container in which each physical item is located.

The collection contains correspondence, reports, and drafts of working papers of members of the Joint Center for Urban Studies Guayana Project in Venezuela. Report topics are as follows: A is Public Administration, B is Economic Factors, C is Social Factors, D is Physical Planning-Regional, E is Physical Planning-Urban, F is General and Miscellaneous.

This collection contains materials including but not limited to correspondence, proposals, reports, papers, data and research notebooks, and memoranda. Topics include Athena, Mother, and Passion software, UN bibliographies, Multiregional Input-Output (MRIO), Multiregional Policy (MRP), Multiregional Policy Impact Simulation Model (MRPIS), South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) and multiregional planning.

The collection contains student records kept by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning Special Program in Urban and Regional Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1967-1998.

The collection documents the professional activities of Paul Oppermann between approximately 1940 and 1969.

Materials include: correspondence, notes, and working files.