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Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.

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Rockefeller Foundation Attempts to Stimulate City Planning and Urban Research in American Universities before World War II

January 1, 2012

One of the most fruitful collections in the items I planned to look at was the material related to the establishment of the School of City Planning at Harvard University in 1929, which was the first foray into city planning by a Rockefeller organization. The Rockefeller context for this move was the phasing out of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (LSRM) and the transfer of its social science programs to the Rockefeller Foundation (RF), effective January 3, 1928. Edmund Day, a Harvard Ph.D. in economics who had founded the University of Michigan's business school, had joined LRSM a few years earlier and became the first director of the RF's new Social Science Division and the point person for the city planning grant.

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