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During its relatively brief stay at the corner of Boylston St. and Memorial Drive, the Kennedy School of Government has become famous for wide-eyed enthusiasm and galloping growth. The arrival of an additional 240 students and 17 professors, giftwrapped as the City and Regional Planning (CRP) program and jettisoned by the overpopulated Graduate School of Design (GSD), will certainly uphold this tradition of expansion. In fact, the move may necessitate readjustments on such a grand scale that even the K-School's wizards of bureaucracy will have to scramble to keep...
...casual pedestrian will notice nothing more than a pronounced bulge of red bricl and glass emerging from the K-School and creeping toward the Square. In fact, CRP classes will remain in Gund Hall until the construction is completed in late 1982. But deep within Harvard's showpiece graduate school Dean Graham T. Allison Jr. '62 and his colleagues will be thrashing through a major reevaluation of the institution's educational goals...
...CRP emphasized the physical aspects of city planning through most of the 1960s. When broader social and economic problems began to limit architectural options at the turn of the decade, its focus shifted to training and research in public policy. While the K-School initiated a separate Public Policy program, the GSD recruited an increasing number of CRP students for their interest in administration, not design. By the mid '70s bureaucratic theory had eclipsed architecture within CRP. Gerald M. McCue, dean-designate of the GSD, remembers that "our CRP program had become 80 per cent public policy analysis...
...afraid we might be swallowed up by the Kennedy School too quickly and lose some valuable aspects of our program," Helen F. Ladd, assistant Planning, said, reflecting a prominent concern among the CRP faculty...
Shapiro agreed, adding, "Over the long term, I think it's reasonable expectation that CRP will lose its identity and become part of the mass of Kennedy School programs...