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...surrounded CRP for the past five years. Since John F. Kain, professor of Economics, took over as chairman of CRP in 1975, the department has taken an unabashedly nontraditional approach to urban planning. He shook up the basic curriculum required of all first-year planning students who entered Gund Hall. Heavily steeped in economic and political analysis, the courses included two semesters of quantitative methods as well as offerings such as "Economic Analysis for Planning," "Urban Growth and Spatial Structure," and "Public Finance and Budgeting...
With the re-recognition of the department secured last October. the fireworks in Gund Hall seemed to subside a bit. But in the end of November, President Bok recommended the transfer of CRP to the Kennedy School of Government after consulting with Kain, McCue, and Graham T. Allison '62, dean of the K-School, Harry Lirtzman, a first-year student at the GSD, expressed a reaction shared by most, saying "With the appointment of McCue as the new dean, we thought there might be substantial changes in City and Regional Planning but we never thought it would have come...
...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...
...vacuum created by CRP's absence will allow everyone in Gund Hall a little more space to spread his blueprints while McCue and company rethink the whole approach to urban design. The next dean expects a reshuffling of faculty members and courses and the addition of several new instructors. He adds that other universities may follow Harvard's example in pruning overgrown public policy projects...
Kain, department chairman since 1975, has evidently not heard the warnings about throwing stones in glass houses. He shook up the basic curriculum required of all first-year planning students who enter the glass and concrete Gund Hall. Heavily steeped in economic and political analysis, courses include two semesters of quantitative methods and offerings entitled "Economic Analysis for Planning," "Urban Growth and Spatial Structure," and "Public Finance and Budgeting...