Paul Oppermann papers, 1926-1964.
Collection Number: 3161
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Paul Oppermann papers, 1926-1964.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3161
Abstract:
Correspondence between Alfred Bettman and officials of the Federal Housing Administration;
findings of committees; reports; legislative acts; proposals; agenda; proceedings
of the Conference on City Planning Administration in Chicago; correspondence as Director
of City Planning, City and County of San Francisco and of the Northeastern Illinois
Metropolitan Area Planning Commission; speeches; and scrapbooks.
Creator:
Oppermann, Paul, 1903-1977.
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
City planner and planning consultant.
In the 1940s, Oppermann advised on federal housing legislation as a planner for the
Federal Housing Administration. He was planning director of San Francisco city and
county from 1949-58, and was the first director of the Illinois planning agency, predecessor
to the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission. He served as president of the American
Institute of Planners and as assistant director of the American Society of Planning
Officials. Oppermann lectured in metropolitan planning at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He was a member of the International Fraternity of Lambda Alpha, Ely
Chapter.
Includes carbon typescripts of correspondence between Alfred Bettman and officials
of the Federal Housing Administration, with copies directed to Oppermann; memoranda;
findings of committees; reports and drafts; legislative acts; notes; proposals; agenda;
studies; published proceedings of the Conference on City Planning Administration in
Chicago, 1936; correspondence as Director of City Planning, City and County of San
Francisco and as Director of the Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning
Commission; speeches, 1926-1964; and scrapbooks.
Part of Lambda Alpha Literary Archives.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Paul Oppermann Papers, #3161. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Bettman, Alfred, 1873-1945.
United States. Federal Housing Administration
Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission
Lambda Alpha International. Ely Chapter
Conference on City Planning Administration (Location of meeting: Chicago). Date of
meeting or treaty signing: (1936 :.)
Subjects:
City planners.
Housing policy.
Housing authorities.
City planning -- California -- San Francisco.
City planning -- Illinois.
City planning.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Urban Redevelopment Law
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1941 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on Program of the Committee on Housing and Blighted Areas, deteriorated
districts, real estate assessment, causes of blight, population density, technological
change, rapid transportation systems, land tenure and land use institutions, building
codes, real estate mortgage system, loans and grants, public ownership of blight areas,
interdependence of rural and urban economy. Includes Philip H. Cornick, Frederick
Bigger, Frederic A. Delano, Earle Sumner Draper, National Resources Planning Board,
Committee on Housing and Blighted Areas, National Association of Real Estate Boards.
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Box 1 | Folder 2, 3, 4 |
Urban Redevelopment Law
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1942 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and drafts on Federal Agencies, U.S. Housing Act, terminology advantages
and disadvantages of combination of existing agencies, City Realty Corporations, tax
delinquency, Urban Redevelopment Corporations, amortizations, FHA staff activities,
Decentralization study, urban population patterns, municipal fiscal instability, FHA
policy limitations, planning agency, land acquisition agency, obsolete neighborhood
demolition, municipal bonding, Decentralization study brochure, zoning and subdivision
regulations, industry distribution patterns, essential elements for federal urban
redevelopment legislation, community automony vs. federal control, Professor Hansen,
planning stages, provisions of the new draft housing investment insurance. Includes
Alfred Bettman, Frederick Bigger, Paul Oppermann, Herbert S. Colton, Earle Sumner
Draper, Federal Agency of Urban Reconstruction and Development Committee to Examine
and Report on Cornick's Decentralization Study, Federal Housing Administration, Department
of Urban Affairs.
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Box 1 | Folder 5, 6 |
Urban Redevelopment Law
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1943 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, drafts on terminology, provisions of the Urban Redevelopment
Act, federal agencies, district boundaries, development vs. redevelopment, program
for city building and urban housing, city growth forecasts, Urban Land Institute Bill,
population data use. Includes Herbert S. Colton, Alfred Bettman, Frederick Bigger,
E. S. Draper, Alvin H. Hansen, Martin Myerson, National Housing Administration, Work
Projects Administration, Federal Security Agency, American Society of Planning Officials.
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Urban Redevelopment Law
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1944 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports on urban and regional planning technique, population planning,
land use planning, circulatory planning, city functions, urban complex study. Includes
Alvin H. Hansen, Charles S. Ascher, Communities Redevelopment Corporation.
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Bibliography of Collection Holdings
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July 31, 1974 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
American Institute of Planners. Committee on Education and Personnel Standards. Agenda
for Discussion, Annual Meeting.
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Jan. 22, 1943 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
American Society of Planning Officials. Proceedings of the Conference on City Planning
and Administration. Chicago, Ill.
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1936 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Oppermann, Paul. "The Replanning and Rebuilding of Our Central Cities."
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Sept. 11, 1952 |
Scope and Contents
Paper presented before City Planning Division, Centennial Conference of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, Chicago, Ill.
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Oppermann, Paul. "A Planner's View of Express Highways." Research Board, Washington,
D.C.
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Dec. 3, 1947 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Oppermann, Paul. "Should Your Child be a City and Regional Planner?" Saturday Evening Post, pp. 44-45.
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n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Oppermann, Paul. Progress Report Tri-Cities Planning Project. Report to the City Planning Commissions of Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport.
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Feb. 12, 1942 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Letters from Bureau of Facilities, Federal Works, and re appointment as Director of
Planning in San Francisco.
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1930-1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Letters from Bureau of Facilities, Federal Works, and re appointment as Director of
Planning in San Francisco.
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1951-1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Primarily thank you notes as Director of the Department of City Planning.
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1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Letters as Director of City Planning, San Francisco.
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1956-1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Letters of congratulations re appointment to Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area
Planning Commission.
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence re appointment to Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning
Commission.
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1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Letters as Executive Director of the Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning
Commission.
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1958-1961 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Letter as Director of Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission.
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1962-1963 |
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings.
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1950-1954 | ||
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings.
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1952-1958 | ||
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings.
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1958-1959 | ||
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings.
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1955-1963 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Certificates
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Clippings
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Photographs
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Speeches
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1926-1936 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Speeches
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1937 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Speeches
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1938 |
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Speeches
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1939 |
Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Speeches
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1940-1941 |
Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Speeches
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1942 |
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Speeches
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1943-1944 |
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Speeches
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1946 |
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Speeches
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1947 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Speeches
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1948 |
Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Speeches
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1949-1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Speeches
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1951 |
Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Speeches
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1952 |
Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Speeches
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1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Speeches
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1954 |
Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Speeches
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Feb. 1955 - June 1955 |
Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Speeches
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Sept. 1955 - Oct. 1955 |
Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Speeches
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Jan. 1956 - Mar. 1956 |
Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Speeches
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Apr. 1956 - Sept. 1956 |
Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Speeches
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Oct. 1956- Dec. 1956 |
Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Speeches
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Jan. 1958 - May 1958 |
Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Speeches
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June 1958 - Aug. 1958 |
Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Speeches
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Sept. 1958 - Dec. 1958 |
Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Speeches
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May 1959 - June 1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Speeches
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Jan. 1959 - Feb. 1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Speeches
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Mar. 1959 - Apr. 1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Speeches
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July 1959 - Sept. 1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Speeches
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Oct. 1959 - Dec. 1959 |
Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Speeches
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Jan. 1960 - May 1960 |
Box 2 | Folder 33 |
Speeches
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June 1960 - Dec. 1960 |
Box 2 | Folder 34 |
Speeches
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Jan. 1961 - Apr. 1961 |
Box 2 | Folder 35 |
Speeches
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June 1961 - Nov. 1961 |
Box 2 | Folder 36 |
Speeches
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Jan. 1962 - Mar. 1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 37 |
Speeches
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Apr. 1962 - June 1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 38 |
Speeches
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July 1962 - Sept. 1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 39 |
Speeches
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Oct. 1962 - Dec. 1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 40 |
Speeches
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Feb. 1963 - June 1963 |
Box 2 | Folder 41 |
Speeches
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July 1963 - Jan. 1964 |