Alan Rabinowitz papers, 1960-2017.
Collection Number: 6708
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Alan Rabinowitz papers, 1960-2017.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6708
Abstract:
Reports and documents relating to his work in planning, housing, urban renewal, municipal
finance and urban economics, which integrate the worlds of public planning, public
finance, and private development.
Creator:
Rabinowitz, Alan.
Arthur D. Little, Inc
Quanitities:
2.9 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
City planner. Member Lambda Alpha International, New York Chapter (1950s) and Puget
Sound Chapter.
Reports and documents relating to his work in planning, housing, urban renewal, municipal
finance and urban economics, which integrate the worlds of public planning, public
finance, and private development.
Report on "Non-planning and Redevelopment in Boston," 1972; two bound volumes of
reports on planning and land development in Florida, Missouri, California, and Chicago
written while on the staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA. and other Arthur
D. Little reports, 1960-1963; bound volume: "Industrial Zoning in Seattle, 1974;"
bound volume, "Management of Tourism in Massachusetts," 1965. Also, M.I.T. dissertation,
"Municipal Debt/Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations," 1969; "An Alternate Plan for
Cooper Square," 1961; various Lambda Alpha publications; and selective bibliography
and work history, 2006.
Materials about the Cambridge Institute, its New City Project, and its related Center
for Community Economic Development.
Additional books, consulting reports and organizational materials, writings on historical
underpinnings of city and regional planning, readings on progressive planning, professional
papers and studies on urban planning/economics topics.
Research reports used for The Real Estate Gamble and Municipal Data Projection Project
reports.
"Clara's Town: A Passion Play in the Years 1908-1910," an account by Alan Rabinowitz,
with diary entries, relating to his mother Clara Greenhut. "Alan's Iconography of
New York," 1914: an illustrated tour of places where members of their families (Rabinowitz
and Wolf) have lived in Manhattan; places that are featured in the biography of Aaron
Rabinowitz; including his connection to Fred F. French; and other connections to French's
family and his companies.
Related collections: Walter Thabit papers, #4215 http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/EADresolver?id=RMM04215.
Part of the Lambda Alpha Literary Archives.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Alan Rabinowitz papers, #6708. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Thabit, Walter, 1921-2005
Greenhut, Clara.
Rabinowitz, Aaron, 1884-1973.
French, Fred F. (Fred Fillmore), 1883-1936
Rabinowitz family.
Wolf family.
Lambda Alpha International
Cambridge Institute (Cambridge, Mass.)
Center for Community Economic Development
Planners for Equal Opportunity
Places:
New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel.
Subjects:
City planners.
Tourism -- Massachusetts.
Zoning -- Washington -- Seattle.
City planning -- Washington -- Seattle.
City planning -- Illinois -- Chicago.
City planning -- California.
City planning -- Missouri -- Kansas City.
City planning -- New York (N.Y)
City planning -- Florida.
City planning -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Non-Planning & Re-development in Boston
|
1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
A. Rabinowitz selected bibliography
|
2006 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Lambda Alpha International Membership directory
|
1992 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Municipal Debt - Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations
|
1969 |
| Box 1 |
Arthur D. Little, Inc. (ADL): surveys of the Florida economy
|
1960-1961 | |
| Box 1 |
ADL reports
|
1962-1963 | |
| Box 1 |
Industrial Zoning in Seattle
|
1964 | |
| Box 1 |
USC (Urban Survey Corporation): Measurement of Tourism in Massachusetts
|
1965 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 4-5 |
Cambridge Institute and New City Project
|
1969-1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Center for Community Development (CCED): the community context of economic conversion,
Barry Stein
|
1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Cambridge Institute
|
1971 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Planners for Equal Opportunity (PEO)
|
1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
New York State Urban Development Corp.
|
1973 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
American Management Associations
|
1980 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Real Estate Investment Climate 1929-1975
|
1976 |
| Box 1 |
Professional papers and studies on urban planning/economics topics
|
1957-1971 | |
| Box 1 |
Walter Thabit and Cooper's Square Renovations
|
1963 | |
| Box 1 |
A. R. on Walter Thabit and Cooper's Square
|
2007 | |
| Box 2 |
Development of the Real Estate Investment Industry - 1925-1975
|
1978 | |
| Box 2 |
Professional papers and studies
|
1971-1979 | |
| Box 2 |
Professional papers and studies
|
1980-1985 | |
| Box 2 |
Development of the Real Estate Investment Industry - 1925-1975
|
1978 | |
| Box 2 |
Other papers on urban finance and economics
|
1970-1986 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Municipal Data Projection Project
|
1966 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Revised populations of SMSAs (Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas) 1920-1960
|
1966 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Fiscal data for school & special districts
|
1966 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
The Municipal Analyst's Almanac
|
1966 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
The Relative Growth of Cities in Metropolitan Areas since 1930
|
1966 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Report on the Pilot Project
|
1966 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Revenues, Expenditures, Debts 1955-1964
|
1966 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Municipal Data Projection Project
|
1966 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Non-Planning & Re-development in Boston c.2
|
1972 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Markets for New Construction 1980-87-95
|
1988 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Goodmoney Collective
|
2007 |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
A.C.T.I.O.N.
|
1955 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Regional Plan Association (RPA) reports
|
1956 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Report to W. M. K. Transit Mix, Inc.
|
1964 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Military housing
|
1961 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Land development in Newton, Mass.
|
1965 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Municipal Debt/Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations
|
1969 |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
American City Corporation
|
1969 |
| Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Alyeska Project (Alaska)
|
1971 |
| Box 3 | Folder 9 |
King County Property Taxes and the Port of Seattle
|
1975 |
| Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Economic Aspects of Redevelopment in Kakaako (Hawaii)
|
1974 |
| Box 3 | Folder 11 |
The State of the Region: Vol. 1, No. 1 - Vol. 2, No. 8
|
1981-1983 |
| Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Winnick, Louis, et al: Philanthropy's Adaptation to the Urban Crisis (unpublished
manuscript)
|
1987-1989 |
| Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Lambda Alpha membership lists
|
1969, 1971, 1985 |
| Box 3 | Folder 14 |
An Alternate Plan for Cooper Square
|
1961 |
| Box 3 |
Packet III: Writings on historical underpinnings of city and regional planning
|
1975-1977 | |
| Box 4 |
Packet IV: Readings on progressive planning
|
1983 | |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Centennial biography of Aaron Rabinowitz - 1884-1984, by Alan Rabinowitz
|
1984 |
| Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Centennial history of Fred French - 1883-1983, by Alan Rabinowitz
|
1993 |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 |
1942 Bishop's Service confidential report on the Fred F. French Investing Co. Inc.
|
1942 |
| Box 4 | Folder 4 |
"So long, Avalon - or - Farewell, F-1," by Stephen Thompson
|
1952 |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 |
"Background note," by Alan Rabinowitz
|
2004 |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Spear and Company Bulletin: A Journal for Realty Owners
|
1913-1914 |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 |
"Financial History, 1928-1980, of the Fred F. French Investing Company," compiled
and analyzed by Alan Rabinowitz
|
1989 |
| Box 4 | Folder 8-9 |
Annual financial reports of the FFF Investing Co.
|
1928-1980 |
| Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Microfilm of 40-50 important documents
|
1920s-1958 |
| Box 4 | Folder 11 |
The French Plan, 11th edition
|
September 1929 |
| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Articles about FFF and various enterprises
|
1924-1984 |
| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Tudor City historic district
|
1988 |
| Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Financial history of Tudor City, New York, 1930-1968, by Alan Rabinowitz
|
1988 |
| Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Tudor City court case
|
1972 |
| Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Properties built and managed by FFF companies
|
1923-1988 |
| Box 4 | Folder 17 |
The paradox of the American metropolis, by Alan Rabinowitz
|
2016 |