Oscar Newman papers, 1959-1998

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Series XIV: Research Material



Box 17 Folder 1 Map of St. Louis, 1964



Box 17 Folder 2 Rotterdam, undated

Maps and information



Box 17 Folder 3 List of Books, undated



Box 17 The Zahringer New Towns, 1966

Exhibition catalogue



Box 17 Folder 4 Hollein Exhibition, 1969

Catalog, prints of projects in exhibition



Box 17 At Home in the City, 1983 Jun 6 - Jul 23

Exhibition Catalog



Box 17 Folder 5 Windmills, 1965

Envelope sent from the Netherlands with sketches



Box 17 Folder 6 Architectural Precedents, ca. 1960s

Bureau Documentatie Bouwwezen, Rotterdam, Holland



Box 17 R. Blijstra. Town-planning in the Netherlands since 1900, undated



Box 17 Webb & Knapp Master Plan: Ville Marie Montreal, 1957 Mar

Canadian National Railway Company



Box 17 "Visual Analysis: Community Renewal Program-Brookline, Massachusetts", 1965 Sep

Kevin Lynch: bound draft- missing figures



Box 17 "Annual Statistical Report: Police Department: New York City Housing Authority", 1967

Crime data



Box 17 "Annual Statistical Report: Police Department: New York City Housing Authority", 1968

Crime data



Box 17 Folder 7 "Discouraging Crime Through City Planning", 1968 Feb

Shlomo Angel; Center for Planning and Development Research



Box 17 Folder 8 "Housing Guide to Equal Opportunity", 1968 Jun

The Potomac Institute



Box 17 "Belmont Market Redevelopment Study", 1968

William G. McNeil, Thomas W. Thorpe, John Loren Yaw; School of Architecture, Columbia University



Box 17 Folder 9 "Outline of case study of Rosslyn, VA: Zoning Incentives to Achieve Design Control", 1969 May 19

Robin Burns



Box 17 "Financial Failures in Multifamily Housing Projects: Phase One: Progress Report Analysis of HUD National Sample of Multifamily Housing Projects", 1974 Jul 10

Berkeley Planning Associates; Report to the Office of Evaluation Dept. of Housing and Urban Development Region IX, San Francisco



Box 17 "Defensible Space Modifications in Row-House Communities" [Part 1 of 3], 1975 Nov

Imre R. Kohn, Karen A. Franck, & Arlen Sue Fox; ICDA Report submitted to the National Science Foundation



Box 17 "Defensible Space Modifications in Row-House Communities" [Part 2 of 3], 1975 Nov

Imre R. Kohn, Karen A. Franck, & Arlen Sue Fox; ICDA Report submitted to the National Science Foundation



Box 17 "Defensible Space Modifications in Row-House Communities" [Part 3 of 3], 1975 Nov

Imre R. Kohn, Karen A. Franck, & Arlen Sue Fox; ICDA Report submitted to the National Science Foundation



Box 17 Folder 10 Dennis W. Roncek, ca. 1981

"Neighborhood of Leased Public Housing" ; "Housing Projects and Crime: Testing a Proximity Hypothesis" ; "Dangerous Places: Crime and the Residential Environment"



Box 17 "Crime, Fear of Crime, and the Deterioration of Urban Neighborhoods: Executive Summary", 1982 Mar

U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice



Box 17 "The Reactions to Crime Project: Executive Summary", 1982 May

U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice



Box 17 "Team 10's Contribution to the Idea of Community: A Critical Assessment", 1982 Sep

Deborah J. Telscher



Box 17 Folder 11 New York City Area Study, 1983 Oct 15

A Proposal by The Consortium for University Research



Box 17 Folder 12 "Housing in New York: Study of a City, 1984", 1985 Feb

Michael A. Stegman; for The City of New York Department of Housing Preservation and Development Office of Rent and Housing Maintenance Division of Rent Policy and Regulation



Box 17 Folder 13 United States v. Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority, 1989

Includes correspondence with Ronald R. Tweel of Michie, Hamlett, Lowry, Rasmussen & Tweel



Box 17 "Understanding Community Policing: A Framework for Action", ca.1990s

Draft: Version 7.6



Box 17 "Defensible Space: Deterring Crime and Building Community." U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development., 1995 Feb

Henry G. Cisneros; Second in a series of essays [3 copies]



Box 17 Folder 14 Bradford Central Police Station, 2004

West Yorkshire Police; includes correspondence



Box 18 Folder 1 NYCHA Tenant Data for Select Projects, 1961-4

Includes tenant admission forms



Box 18 Folder 2 HUD Data on Move-ins, 1972-7

Includes correspondence



Box 18 Folder 3 Survey of Public Housing Residents, ca. 1990s



Box 18 Folder 4 Statistics and Charts, undated

Includes site plans and floor plans



Box 18 Folder 5 Location Maps of Projects, undated

Prints and transparencies



Box 18 Folder 6 Housing Authority Renderings, undated

Jacob Riis Houses, Seth Low Houses, Throgg's Neck Houses; prints : 3 items



Box 18 Folder 7 "Historical Examples of D.S. ", undated

Magazine clippings; prints of exterior photographs, site plans



Box 18 Folder 8 "Scatter Site Public Housing", undated

Prints of exterior photographs



Box 18 Folder 9 Parks, undated

Prints of site plans



Box 18 Folder 10 560 Riverside, undated

Prints of exterior & interior photographs, site plans, diagrams; negatives; contact sheet



Box 18 Folder 11 Breukelen, undated

Prints of exterior & interior photographs, aerial photographs, site plans, floor plans, rendering



Box 18 Folder 12 Brownsville- Van Dyke, undated

Prints of exterior photographs, aerial photographs, site plans, floor plans, diagrams, renderings



Box 18 Folder 13 The California, Tustin, undated

Prints of exterior photographs, site plans, floor plans; negatives; contact sheets



Box 18 Folder 14 Carr Square Village, St. Louis, undated

Data on occupants; prints of exterior photographs, site plans, floor plans



Box 18 Folder 15 Clason Point, undated

Prints of exterior photographs, site plans, illustrations; negatives; contact sheets



Box 18 Folder 16 Columbus Homes, Newark, undated

Prints of interior photographs, aerial photographs, site plans, floor plans



Box 18 Folder 17 Co-op City, undated

Prints of aerial photographs, renderings



Box 18 Folder 18 Easter Hill Village, undated

Research articles; prints of exterior photographs, site plans



Box 18 Folder 19 Edenwald, 1971 Aug 6, undated

Prints of exterior & interior photographs, aerial photographs, site plans, rendering; contact sheet



Box 18 Folder 20 Elizabeth Wood, undated

Prints of perspectives



Box 18 Folder 21 First Houses, undated

Prints of exterior & interior photographs, aerial photographs, site plans, perspectives; negatives; contact sheets



Box 18 Folder 22 Fortress Apartments-Rockaway Beach Development, undated

Prints of exterior photographs



Box 18 Folder 23 Harlem River, undated

Prints of exterior photographs with captions; negatives; contact sheet



Box 18 Folder 24 Highbridge Houses, undated

Prints of exterior photographs, site plans



Box 18 Folder 25 Hyde Park, undated

Prints of exterior photographs, site plans; negatives; contact sheet



Box 18 Folder 26 Jersey City, undated

Prints of exterior photographs



Box 18 Folder 27 Laclede Town, undated

Prints of exterior photographs, site plans



Box 18 Folder 28 Markham, undated

Site plans, diagrams, perspective drawings



Box 18 Folder 29 Minneapolis Project, undated

Prints of exterior photographs, site plans



Box 18 Folder 30 North Beach, San Francisco, undated

Prints of exterior photographs, site plans; contact sheet



Box 18 Folder 31 Outhwaite, undated

Prints of site plans



Box 18 Folder 32 Philadelphia Projects, 1972, undated

Prints of exterior photographs



Box 18 Folder 33 Pruitt-Igoe, St. Louis, undated

Research articles; data; "A Dream Deferred: the story of Pruitt-Igoe's conditions"; prints of exterior photographs, site plans, floor plans, diagrams



Box 18 Folder 34 Raymond Rosen, undated

Prints of exterior photographs, site plans



Box 18 Folder 35 Riverbend, undated

Prints of exterior & interior photographs, site plans, floor plans; negatives; contact sheets



Box 18 Folder 36 St. Francis Square, San Francisco, undated

Prints of exterior photographs, site plans, floor plans; contact sheet



Box 18 Folder 37 St. Marks Place, undated

Prints of exterior photographs, site plans; contact sheet



Box 18 Folder 38 St. Nicholas, undated

Prints of exterior photographs



Box 18 Folder 39 Sarah Lawrence, 1970

Prints of exterior & interior photographs, site plans; notes on site visit; correspondence; negatives; contact sheet



Box 18 Folder 40 Schuylkill Falls, PA, undated

Prints of exterior photographs



Box 18 Folder 41 Stapleton, undated

Prints of aerial renderings



Box 18 Folder 42 Tilden Houses, undated

Prints of aerial renderings, interior photographs, floor plans, site plans



Box 18 Folder 43 Tower Hill, St. Louis, undated

Prints of exterior



Box 18 Folder 44 Woodhill Estates, undated

Prints of site plans



Box 18 Folder 45 Misca., undated

"Photos Comm. Of Interest, Design Guidelines: Unlikely or Repeats, to be filed by subject"; contact sheets; prints of exterior photographs, site plans, diagrammatic drawings



Box 18 Folder 46 Prints of British Housing, undated

Prints of exteriors and interiors



Box 18 Folder 47 Prints & Negatives of Quebec City, undated

Images of street scenes: negatives, contact sheet, prints



Box 18 Folder 48 Prints & Negatives of Montreal, ca. 1960S

Prints of city streets, night scenes: negatives of row housing, possible student work, waterfront, streets at night



Box 18 Folder 49 ARCOP Prints, ca. 1960S

Prints of exteriors and interiors



Box 18 Folder 50 Prints of Windmills, undated



Box 18 Folder 51 Prints of the Netherlands, ca. 1965

Prints, contact sheets: includes images of city models, street scenes



Box 19 Folder 1 Prints and Negatives of European Travels, ca. 1959-1962



Box 19 Folder 2 Negatives of Houses and Post Offices, undated

Post Office, Town of Mount Ryl, Arch Affleck & Michaud; St. Georges School, Westmont P.O., Arch. F. Lebensold; Decarie Motors, Arch. F. Lebensold; Clark House, Arch R. Affleck; Cohen House, Westmount Mtrl?, Arch F. Lebensold; Jacobs House, Sunnyside, Westmount P.O., R. Affleck Arch; Greek Orthodox Church, Arch. Demik; Drummond Apts, Montreal P.O., Arch D; Drummond Apts., Demikoupulos Arch.; Civic Architecture (Model), Vancouver B.ca., Arco; Beaver Lake; Post Office; Saquiney Terminal; Beatty House, Baie D'Urfe, Arch. R. Affleck; Color Vanca.;



Box 19 Folder 3 Assorted Negatives, undated

Images of foliage and housing, Chicago, Halifax, Ontario, student work, Bakema, Doug?, modern movement



Box 19 Folder 4 Assorted Prints, undated

Prints and contact sheets



Box 19 Folder 5 Negatives of Housing Projects, undated

Site plans, floor plans, and exterior images with captions



Box 20 Contact Sheets & Negatives, ca. 1970s

Images of travel including trips to Puerto Rico and Europe; images of housing projects



Box 22 Folder 9 "Photostat of Breughl's Armies of Good & Evil", undated

Includes draft and copy of New Year's card [3 items]



Box 27 Folder 11 NYCHA Statistics and Graphs, undated

Copies of charts and diagrams [7 items]