From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America

Note on Sources

Note on Sources PRIMARY SOURCES Unpublished and Limited-Circulation Sources The unpublished and limited-circulation sources cited throughout this book may be found in four collections: Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design Library Vertical Files Collection contains numerous materials on topics discussed throughout the book. These include speeches by Tracy Augur, mimeographed government reports of the federal Industrial Dispersion Program, bulletins from the Pittsburgh Community Renewal Program and the Los Angeles Community Analysis Bureau, advertising brochures from aerial survey companies, bibliographic compilations of research reports on planning for civil defense, research papers from staff at the Harvard Laboratory of Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis , and miscellaneous newspaper clippings related to the history of American city planning. Each source is individually cataloged on Harvard’s library computer system (holliscatalog.harvard.edu). RAND Corporation headquarters in Santa Monica opened its archives in the late-1990s, making available to researchers records of the New York City RAND Institute, including correspondence between RAND and city staff, draft versions of reports, and newspaper clippings documenting RAND’s work for that city. Also worth special mention is the internal RAND library computer system, accessed on site, which catalogs many reports available only internally . Searching this database yields a far more detailed picture of ongoing research at the think tank than do searches of any other bibliographic database, including RAND’s own publicly accessible publications website www.rand. org/publications. (Note: All RAND materials cited in this project were unclassi~ed or declassi~ed documents; RAND maintains a separate library and computer system for classi~ed materials.) The city archives in New York and Los Angeles offer ample information on activities behind the scenes as municipal governments tried to adopt new technologies. At the Municipal Archives of the City of New York, John V. Lindsay’s papers are especially well cataloged; available for consultation on micro~lm, the records of the Lindsay administration’s dealings with RAND and NASA are easy to locate. Of special interest at the Municipal Records Center of the City of Los Angeles are ~les with information on all city contracts, which may be used to document relationships between city agencies and aerial survey companies, applications from cable operators to wire city neighborhoods , and contracts with independent consultants hired to assist city agencies implementing new technologies. Draft and ~nal reports from the Los Angeles Community Analysis Bureau are also held there. Journals and Periodicals Academic journals and trade publications of several professional organizations provide insights into how military and urban planners and managers saw opportunities, and occasional threats, in their emerging collaborations. Relationships between atomic scientists, defense experts, and city administrators during the late-1940s and early-1950s are especially vivid in issues of the Journal of the American Institute of Planners (later, the Journal of the American Planning Association) and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for the late-1940s and early-1950s. For the 1960s and 1970s, the Journal of the American Institute of Planners and the Public Administration Review document the continued appeal of defense and aerospace techniques and technologies in American city planning and management. Also noteworthy in this period is the trade weekly Aviation Week and Space Technology; its pages are ~lled with industry leaders’ confessed anxieties about the future of the industry, as well as their hopes for new markets in urban problem solving. Conference Proceedings Researchers tracking the circulation of ideas from defense and aerospace to urban government will ~nd ample documentation in the published proceedings of conferences bringing together individual and institutional representatives of both communities. Of particular interest are proceedings of annual meetings of the Association of Computing Machinery Conference on the Ap276 Note on Sources plication of Computers to the Problems of Urban Society; the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association; and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics/Public Technology Inc. conferences on Urban Technology. One-time meetings with proceedings of note include the MITRE Corporation ’s Symposium on Urban Cable Television: October 18th, 19th, and 20th, 1972, Sponsored by the Mitre Corporation (Washington, D.C.: MITRE Corporation Washington Operations, 1973); Robert Warren, ed., The Wired City of Los Angeles : Papers and Discussions from a Seminar on Urban Cable Television (Los Angeles : USC Center for Urban Affairs, 1972; the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Conference on Space, Science, and Urban Life: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Oakland, California, March 28-30, 1963, Supported by the...