Word: hartman
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...central point of disagreement at the GSD after 1966--was toward advocacy planning, planning which concentrates on the needs of people and social contingents rather than on land use, zoning and street layout. Their close-minded attitude toward advocacy was best demonstrated by the dismissal of Chester W. Hartman '57, an assistant professor in the Planning Department...
...Hartman, who founded the Urban Field Service (UFS) in 1968, was eased out in 1970 by Isaacs, Nash and Vigier primarily because his staunch support of advocacy planning and his political militance against Harvard's housing policies in Cambridge ran counter to their view of what a planner's role in society should be. In recommending that Hartman's contract not be renewed, Nash, who was the department chairman at the time, wrote that "(Hartman's) method of teaching conveys a sense of political strategy (that goes past) the substance of city and regional planning. (His) loyalties to the School...
Jonathan W. Galassi of Dunster House and Duxbury; Frederick M. Goodman of 220 Brattle Street and St. Louis, Missouri; Richard F. Green of Adams House and Omaha, Nebraska; Wesley C. Gryk Jr. of Leverett House and Manchester, Connecticut; Charles O. Hartman of Leverett House and Newport Beach, California...
Your May 24 story on Chester Hartman and the GSD faculty carefully describes the prolonged fencing over procedures for his appeal. It fails to report on the background of the case and its underlying issues. These need repeating. At the GSD Hartman was an inspiring teacher, a conscientious advisor, a productive scholar, an effective innovator of urban planning techniques and of educational methods. He was let go for a variety of reasons which had nothing to do with this outstanding record: not playing by the polite rules of the club, challenging the University's policies for how they affect surrounding...
...time it has taken- already over a year- to handle Hartman's appeal is proof in itself that he has not been accorded due process. This foot-dragging is expressed in a mounting pile of Ivy League-alese which serves to obscure the real issues in the dispute...