Morningside Area Alliance records, 1947-1992

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Series XIV: Urban Renewal, 1949-1977

This series is composed of pamphlets, publications, reports, and other materials having to do with urban renewal--a topic of central concern to the Alliance, especially in its early years as Morningside Heights Inc. The majority of items in the series are reports and publications on specific urban renewal projects or on general renewal programs--in New York City and elsewhere. The series also contains information collected on urban renewal programs and funding carried out by the federal government, and some information on the legislation regarding these programs.



Box 2 Folder 9 The Community of New York and its Universities by Irwin Shannon and Max Wolf,, undated


Box 2 Folder 10 Booklets from Regional Plan Association, 1963


Box 2 Folder 12 Clippings, 1963-1964


Box 2 Folder 13 Housing, 1963-1964


Box 2 Folder 14 Parks, Plans, People - A Prologue by Juliet Prudney, undated


Box 2 Folder 15 An Annotated Bibliography on University and Medical Centers Planning and Development,, 1961


Box 2 Folder 16 Clippings, "Moscow Decides to Grow Upwards,", 1965


Box 2 Folder 17 Housing and Community Planning, publications, 1962-1963, 1968, 1962-1963, 1968


Box 2 Folder 18 Institution's Role, 1961-1962


Box 2 Folder 19 Institution's Role, publications, 1962-1963


Box 2 Folder 20 Neighborhood Improvement, examples and recommendations, 1955, 1957, 1962-1963, 1965, 1955, 1957, 1962-1963, 1965


Box 2 Folder 21 Pros and Cons of Urban Renewal, 1963-1964


Box 2 Folder 22 University Circle, 1957, 1962, 1957, 1962



Box 3 Folder 7 Citizen Participation in the West Side Urban Renewal Area, 1961


Box 3 Folder 8 A Proposal for a Demonstration Program in Total Community Redevelopment by Michael Coffey,, 1963


Box 3 Folder 9 Project Statistics, 1966


Box 3 Folder 10 Housing Primer by Elinor G. Black, 1964


Box 3 Folder 12 Maintaining Decent Dwellings, Code Enforcement, 1963


Box 3 Folder 14 Conference on Housing the Economically and Socially Disadvantaged Groups in the Population by Warren Jay Vinton,, 1960


Box 3 Folder 16 Cooperative Housing in New York City, 1960-1962


Box 3 Folder 17 Middle Income Housing, 1962


Box 3 Folder 19 Preliminary and Final Plan, West Side Urban Renewal Area, 1959


Box 3 Folder 20 to 22 Housing Programs, Policies, and Regulations in New York City, 1962, (3 Folders)


Box 3 Folder 23 Lower Manhattan Recommended Land Use, Redevelopment Areas, Traffic Improvements,, 1958


Box 3 Folder 24 ManhattanTown - Two Years Later, 1956


Box 3 Folder 25 The Bloomingdale Conservation Project, 1962-1963


Box 3 Folder 26 A Demonstration Project in Relocation, 1962


Box 3 Folder 27 Tenant Relocation and the Housing Program, 1954


Box 3 Folder 28 Relocation of Residential Site Tenants in New York City, 1956


Box 3 Folder 29 Neighborhood Conservation in New York City by Francis Low, 1962


Box 3 Folder 30 Relocation in New York City, Special Report to mayor Robert Wagner by J. Anthony Panuch,, 1959


Box 3 Folder 31 Building a Better New York, report to Mayor Robert Wagner by J. Anthony Panuch,, 1960


Box 3 Folder 32 Housing and Redevelopment Board, 1963


Box 3 Folder 33 Rehabilitation, 1963


Box 3 Folder 34 Letter to New York Times "Relocating Tenants" by J. Clarence Davies Jr.,, 1961


Box 3 Folder 39 Higher Density Housing, reprints of House & Home 1960-1963, undated, 1960-1963, undated


Box 3 Folder 40 Major Improvements, Land Use, Transportation, Traffic in Lower Manhattan,, 1963



Box 19 Folder 1 Regional Plan Association Conference: A Plan for New York City, 1969


Box 19 Folder 2 Board of Estimate for the City of New York, 1966


Box 19 Folder 3 Mobilization for Youth Inc.: A Proposal for the Prevention and Control of Delinquency by Expanding Opportunities,, 1961


Box 19 Folder 4 A Proposal for the Prevention and Control of Delinquency by Expanding Opportunities, 1962`


Box 19 Folder 5 Neighborhood Conservation in New York City, 1963


Box 19 Folder 6 Handbook on Rezoning, undated


Box 19 Folder 7 Municipal Service Delivery: A Guide for Community Boards, 1977


Box 19 Folder 8 Report of Housing and Urban Renewal Task Force, 1966


Box 19 Folder 9 The Threatened City: A Report on the Design of New York City, 1967


Box 19 Folder 10 Downtown Lower Manhattan Association: A Study of Travel Patterns, 1961


Box 19 Folder 11 The New City: Architecture and Urban Renewal


Box 19 Folder 12 Lower Manhattan Redevelopment; program study, 1957


Box 19 Folder 13 Developing New York City's Human Resources, Volumes I and II, 1966


Box 19 Folder 14 Proposed Comprehensive Annual Social Services Program Plan, 1977


Box 19 Folder 15 The Port of New York: Proposals for Development, 1964


Box 19 Folder 16 New York City Neighborhood Project: Bureau of Applied Social Research Columbia University by N. Friedman and T. Rogers,, 1974


Box 19 Folder 17 Uniform Land Use: A Guide for Community Boards, 1977


Box 19 Folder 18 The World of 207: A Report on an In-Building Program Conducted in a Single Room Occupancy,, 1966


Box 19 Folder 19 Community Planning Handbook, 1973


Box 19 Folder 20 Transcript: The Future by Design, 1964


Box 19 Folder 21 Data Book on New York City Public Schools, 1963



Box 20 Folder 1 Program for the Public Libraries of New York City, 1946


Box 20 Folder 2 Plan for Rezoning the City of New York, 1950


Box 20 Folder 3 Community Planning Handbook, 1973


Box 20 Folder 9 A Guide to the City, Illustrated by the children of Bank St. College School for Children,, undated


Box 20 Folder 14 East Harlem Triangle: A Preliminary Proposal for a policy-oriented Study of a Low Income Population and Area,, 1964


Box 20 Folder 15 Knickerbocker Health Park: Interim Planning Report I by M. O. Urbahn, 1967


Box 20 Folder 16 Riverbank: Interim Report II by Bond Ryder Associates, 1973


Box 20 Folder 17 A Master Plan for Washington Heights and Inwood, New York City proposed by Columbia University School of Architecture,, undated



Box 48 Folder 32 Code Enforcement for Multiple Dwellings in New York City by Elizabeth VanHoorn,, 1962


Box 48 Folder 33 The Balanced Neighborhood by Elizabeth Wood, 1960



Box 49 Folder 40 Here is Manhattanville" report to the people, undated



Box 50 Folder 24 Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference, Chicago, 1957-1958


Box 50 Folder 35 Housing Integration, 1961



Box 89 Folder 5 to 7 Slum Clearance: News Clippings, 1950-1959



Box 91 Folder 8 Urban Parks and Recreation: Challenge of the 1970s, 1972, 1970s, 1972



Box 99 Folder 10 University Circle, Cleveland Ohio, 1960-1963


Box 99 Folder 12 "Morningside Heights" and "Morningside Heights, New York…" reports, circa, 1957


Box 99 Folder 13 "University Circle: A Plan for its Development," Cleveland, Ohio, 1957


Box 99 Folder 14 "Morningside-Manhattanville Rebuilds" proof, 1955



Box 100 Folder 30 Morningside Renewal Council Agenda, 1966



Box 104 Folder 6 Cathedral Parkway Urban Renewal Area by David Rosen Associates, 1968



Box 108 Folder 6 Reports: "Background Data, General Grant Houses" 1953 "Source Book" 1954 "Morningside Heights, New York…", "Morningside-Manhattanville Rebuilds", undated, 1953 1954., 1953, 1954, 1953



Box 115 Folder 19 Journal of Housing, no. 2, February, 1969



Box 119 Folder 38 University Circle and South East Chicago Commission, 1960-1975