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Works by Kermit Carlyle Parsons
Kermit Carlyle Parsons was the professor of city and regional planning at Cornell University. He was instrumental in transferring Clarence Stein papers to Cornell University and establishing graduate studies on Stein's works.

 

1. Book
The Writings of Clarence S. Stein--Architect of the Planned Community, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1998. Kermit Carlyle Parsons is the editor.


This book contains Clarence Stein's major letters. It also has a biographical sketch of Stein's colleagues; summary and chronology of Stein's life; list of publications written by Stein; articles written about Stein and the Regional Planning Association of America; and a description of Stein's architectural, planning, and housing projects.

 

2. Major Journal Publications
“Shaping the Regional City: 1950-1990: The Plans of Tracy Augur and Clarence Stein for Disbursing Federal Workers from Washington, DC,” Proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH). Cincinnati, OH, 1989: 649-689 (Keynote Speech).


“Clarence Stein and the Greenbelt Towns: Settling for Less,” Journal of the American Planning Association 60 (Spring l990): 161-83.


“British and American Community Design: Clarence Stein’s Manhattan Transfer—1924-1974.” A paper presented at the Joint Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the Association of European Schools of Planning, Oxford, England, July 7, 1991, 23 pp. Published in Planning Perspectives 7 (1992): 181- 209.


“American Influence on Stockholm’s Post W.W. II Suburban Expansions.” A paper presented at the jointly held Fourth National Conference of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) and the First International Conference of the Planning History Group held at Richmond, VA. November 1991. 12 pp. illus. Published in Planning History vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 1992).


“Clarence Stein’s Middle Years: The Transition from Greenbelt Consultant to Urban Statesman.” Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Conference of The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH). Columbus, OH.


“Collaborative Genius--The Regional Planning Association of America,” Journal of the American Planning Association 60 (Autumn l994): 462-482.


“The Regional Planning Ideas of the Regional Planning Association of America, 1925-1965.” Paper presented at the Sixth National Conference on American Planning History of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH). Knoxville, TN, 1995.


“C. S. Stein’s Apprenticeship with Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue: The Mining Town of Tyrone, New Mexico 1915-1919.” A paper given at the Seventh Biennial National Conference on American Planning History of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH). Seattle, WA, October 1997.


“Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City,” Journal of the American Planning Association 64 (Spring l998): 129-130.


“Clarence Stein’s 1919-1928 Contributions to New York State and National Housing Reform.” A paper given at the Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Pasadena, CA, November 1998.

 

The above bibliography was compiled by Kermit Carlyle Parsons before his death in 1999.

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