Oscar Newman papers, 1959-1998

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Series XIII: Faculty Papers



Box 16 Folder 1 Urban Theory Slides, undated

Includes images of cities, major buildings, housing, mainly in Europe; diagrams of usage of space; unidentified models; Nagele, Bakema projects [housed in original order]



Box 16 Folder 2 Urban History II Slides, 1965, undated

Hansafiertel (Hansaviertel), Germany; freeways; planning diagrams



Box 16 Folder 3 Nova Scotia Technical College, Halifax [aka Dalhousie University], ca.1961-3

Syllabi, course notes for Architectural Drawing; Architecture, Society and Culture; includes a portrait print



Box 16 Folder 4 Washington University [1 of 3], 1965-6

Reading list; correspondence; syllabus for Theory and History of Urban Design; Roger Montgomery "Comments on Dr. Lee Rainwater's Paper Fear and House-as-Haven in the Lower Class" 1965 Nov 5; Monday Night Lecture Series; Arch 709, Metropolitan Community notes and bibliography; Iconography/Pop Architecture seminar notes



Box 16 Folder 5 Washington University [2 of 3], ca. 1964-8

Arch 701: History and Theory of Urban Design assigned Reading, course notes, bibliography



Box 16 Folder 6 Washington University [3 of 3], 1966-8

Contains syllabi for misca. courses and "Design Directives"



Box 16 Folder 7 Columbia University, ca. 1967-70

Includes "Projecting Future Utopias" Film Lecture; General Bibliography; Architecture in the Urban Planning Process course descriptions; Theory and Practice of Urban Design course outline; Registered Studies Complaints



Box 16 Folder 8 NYU Urban Design Theory and Practice, 1970-3

Syllabi, lecture material, course readings, Charles Center Field Trip (Spring 1971)



Box 16 Folder 9 NYU 1621 Lectures, 1970

Lectures #1-11; includes drafts and edits



Box 16 Folder 10 NYU 1621 Lectures, 1971-2

Urban Design Theory and Practice Syllabus, Course documents, Lecture Materials, Lectures; includes drafts and edits



Box 16 Folder 11 NYU 1620, 1972-3



Box 16 Folder 12 Lecture Notes, ca. 1968-3



Box 16 Folder 13 References, undated

McNulty & Fawcett, "Visual Community"; Walinsky, Adam. "Keeping the Poor in Their Place"; Heyman, Mark. "Space and Behavior"; Wood, Elizabeth. "Social Goals for Low, Moderate-Income Housing Management Defined"; Gans, Herbert J. " The Balanced Community"; Lyndon, Moore, Quinn & van Der Ryn, "Toward Making Places"; Kriesberg, Louis. "Neighborhood Setting and the Isolation of Public Housing Tenants"; Montgomery, Roger. "Urban Design: Illusive Reality"; Bibliography; Master Accession List



Box 16 Folder 14 Student Papers, 1967 May; 1970 May; 1971 Jan 6 ; undated

Kent, Brian. "The Form of Office Buildings" ; Cardia, Clara. "A new trend in American Housing" ; Mytelka, Rosalind. "Design Directives for the Millburn, N.J. Public Library; Seward, Rodica B. "'It is interaction, not place, that it is the essence of the city and of city life." ; Martin, Eric ca. "An 86th Street Case Study Architecture, Ecology, and Information Theory"



Box 16 Folder 15 "Housing Design: A Social Evolution", undated

Proposed course