Word: vigier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Francois C. Vigier, associate professor of City Planning and Urban Design, has been appointed director of the Center for Urban Studies in Harvard's Graduate School of Design...
...Vigier, who has been at Harvard since 1960, is currently executive vice-president of Nash-Vigier Planning Consultants in Cambridge...
...Vigier and Reginald R. Issacs, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning, said there was a need to move quickly to control and guide the rapid development of the island...
Large industries there generate rapid economic development which results in new problems for the public sector, said Vigier. Large numbers of immigrant workers need housing, schools, hospitals and recreational facilities. Vigier said, "These problems are left for the Islanders...
Isaacs said that he worked with the Planning Board with the aim of "training the people to help themselves." Vigier agreed that part of his concern as a consultant was to generate discussion of the development goals for the Virgin Islands amongst the Islanders themselves. He said, "They have to be heavily involved through their officials...