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President Bok yesterday recommended transferring the City and Regional Planning program (CRP) at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) to the Kennedy School of Government...
Gerrald M. McCue, professor of Architecture and Urban Design and new dean of the GSD as of June 1980, said yesterday Bok reached the preliminary decision after consulting him as well as John F. Kain, chairman of CRP, and Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the K-School...
...group decided to shift CRP to the K-School because it saw a growing divergence of the program, which has emphasized the public policy aspects of planning, from the Design School as a whole, whose primary concern has been physical aspects, McCue said. He added that CRP currently emphasizes the use of analytical methods derived from the social sciences and "often doesn't deal with making physical plans...
...CRP currently prepares analysts who become planning adjuncts of government." he added. "We want to prepare students who really want to design pieces of new neighborhoods and towns...
Several GSD faculty members have criticized CRP over the past few years for devoting too much attention to analytical and public policy issues at the expense of traditional planning curricula...