Oral history interview with Charles Stern Ascher, 1972
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Charles Stern Ascher, 1972
Abstract
Family history; boyhood, West Side of New York City; Ethical Culture Society School; Columbia College and Law School; Legislative Drafting Fund; Kuhn, Loeb; Brooklyn Heights society, 1921-1925; American Civil Liberties Union; Sunnyside and Radburn developments; Croton-on-Hudson; zoning law; Public Administration Clearing House, 1932-1936; Martha's Vineyard, 1921-1971; Regional Planning Association of America; Social Science Research Council, 1935-1942; UNESCO; United States and European regional and city planning; New Deal housing programs: Public Works Administration and Works Progress Administration; Chicago World's Fair, 1933; management associations; National Association of Housing Officials; National Resources Planning Board; urban studies; Maxwell School, Syracuse University; Greenbelt towns; Spelman Fund; Federal Housing Authority; Tennessee Valley Authority; National Housing Agency, 1942-1947; city government; National Municipal League; impressions of Roger Baldwin, Dr. Mary Calderone, Louis Brownlow, Henry Beetle Hough, Julian Huxley, Harold Ickes, Lewis Mumford, Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Clarence Stein, Harlan F. Stone, Rexford Guy Tugwell, and Henry L. Wright
City planners; Housing; Housing authorities; City planning; Housing policy; Real estate development; City planning and redevelopment law; Urban policy; Urban renewal; Community development corporations; Federal-city relations; Zoning law; New Deal, 1933-1939; United States Economic policy 1933-1945; Ascher, Charles S. (Charles Stern), 1899-1980; National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials; Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs; Tennessee Valley Authority; National Municipal League; Kuhn, Loeb & Company; American Civil Liberties Union; Social Science Research Council (U.S.); Regional Plan Association (New York, N.Y.); Unesco; Society for Ethical Culture; United States. Works Progress Administration; United States. Public Works Administration; United States. Federal Housing Administration; United States. National Housing Agency
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1972
Physical Description
738 pages
Note (Biographical)
Urban planner
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
Biographical interview
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010