A History of the Department of City and Regional Planning (1948-1979), Part 1

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" A History of the Department of City and Regional Planning (1948-1979), Part 1 "
Kent, Jr., T.J.

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	928507
Doc. No	:	LA7x435935
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Kent, Jr., T.J.
Title & Author	:	A History of the Department of City and Regional Planning (1948-1979), Part 1 [Article]\ Kent, Jr., T.J.
Title of Periodical	:	Berkeley Planning Journal
Volume/ Issue Number	:	1/1
Date	:	1984
Abstract	:	The publication in 1938 of Lewis Mumford's book, The Culture of Cities, was one of the major events that led to the establishment of the Department of City and Regional Planning on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. At a time when the profes sion of city planning was in its infancy in the United States, it inspired a generation of Berkeley architecture and landscape archi tecture students to focus their idealism and energies on efforts to improve, protect, and enhance the cities and the natural environ ment of the San Francisco Bay region. Influenced and to a consid