Announcement of the curriculum of the Harvard School of City Planning reveals that several of America's most noted city planners and landscape architects will lecture at the school this year, among them A. C. Comey '07, whose work in the past has gained him the position of city planner for Milwaukee and St. Paul, and John Nolen, who drew up the general plans for the Babson Institute and for Smith and Bates Colleges.
Special Subjects Treated
These men will lecture in City Planning 10a, a course entitled the "Principles of City Planning". H. V. Hubbard '97, Master of City Planning, and director of the school, will have general supervision of the course, which will bring to Cambridge men from all over the country who have done outstanding work in city planning and landscape architecture. Each lecturer will treat some special part of the subject.
Other men who will be heard at different times during the term are Robert Whitten, city planner from New York City, and A. A. Shurtleff '96, an instructor in landscape architecture at Harvard during 1899-1906, adviser to the Metropolitan Planning Division of Boston from 1907 to 1909, and an adviser to the Boston Park Department since 1909.
Bassett is Zoning Expert
E. M. Bassett, ex-congressman and member of the advisory committee on zoning of the Department of Commerce in 1922, will lecture, as will Harland Bartholomew, prominent city planner. Alfred Bettman, Cincinnati lawyer and city planner; Charles W. Eliot, II, a member of the Capitol Park and Playground Commission in Washington; L. H. Weir, member of the Park, Playground, and Recreation Association of America; and Theodore K. Hubbard, honorary librarian of the American City Planning Institute, complete the list of prominent lecturers.
College Courses Included
Many of the courses offered by the Graduate School of City Planning are open to students in the Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Certain courses in the College are also listed as prescribed for the degree, including Fine Arts 1d, the History of Mediaeval, Modern, and Renaissance Art; Social Ethics 30, housing problems and the social aspects of Town Planning; Government 17a, Municipal Government, and Government 17b, Municipal Administration.
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