Series I: Professional Practice in Urban Planning, 1961-2014
Scope and Contents Note
This series includes materials spanning Schwartz's professional career as an urban planner, from 1960 to 2014. Materials consist of reports and studies for urban development projects, both in New York and other states; original photographs taken for these studies; and some of Schwartz's published works. Recurring topics include housing for low income families and the elderly; metropolitan growth, evolution, and area improvements; community studies regarding neighborhood segregation, population change, transportation, and housing developments; and environmental impact studies.
Subseries I.1: Housing Studies
New York Renewal Strategy, 1965
Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review of the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation, 1967
Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Review of the Metro Denver Fair Housing Center, Inc., 1968
Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Housing Program for New York State, 1968
Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Chelsea: A Decade of Change, 1969
Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries I.2: Effects of Group Housing
Environmental Impact of the Porter Avenue Residence (homeless shelter, Williamsburg, Brooklyn), 1992
Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Traffic Patterns and Parking at Oxford Houses in the District of Columbia (including original photographs), 1994-1996
Box: 1, Folder: 6-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bryant Woods Inn Statement and Report (Howard County, Maryland), 1995
Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Report on a Proposed Group Home at 12550 Conway Road, Creve Coeur, Missouri (includes original photographs), 1996
Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries I.3: Aging in Place
Market Study for Commack Senior Citizen Housing/Inventory and Characteristics of Senior Citizen Housing in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, 1990
Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
An Accessory Apartment Program for Woodside, Queens, 1990, 1993
Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Planning Supportive Services for Elderly Residents of Cooperative Village (Lower East Side, Manhattan), 1993
Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Growing Older in New York City in the 1990s-A Study of Changing Lifestyles, Quality of Life, and Quality of Care (Volumes 2-5), 1993
Box: 1, Folder: 13-14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Market Study for Assisted Living Facility in Northwest Queens, 1994
Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Plan for Community Services for Bay Ridge's Elderly Residents and related materials, 2005-2009
Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Materials on Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities in New York City, 1991-2002
Box: 1, Folder: 17-19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries I.4: Community Studies
Review of the Need for Additional Capacity and Sites for New Elementary Schools in Community School District 6 (Washington Heights/Inwood), 1983
Box: 1, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Background Study of the Manhattanville West Pier Area (Harlem), 1984
Box: 1, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Statement of Opportunities (Harlem), 1986
Box: 1, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Profile of the Heights Neighborhood (Jersey City, NJ), c. 1990
Box: 1, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Evaluation of Environmental Impact Statement, Brighton-By-the-Sea Project (Brighton Beach, Brooklyn), 1992
Box: 1, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Security and Environmental Conditions in the Port Morris East Industrial Area (South Bronx), 1993
Box: 1, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Population Change and the Relation Between Urban Development Corporation Actions and Residential Segregation in Yonkers, New York 1950-1990, 1994
Box: 1, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reconsidering Gowanus (Brooklyn), 2010
Box: 1, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries I.5: New York Regional Studies
Park, Recreation and Open Space Project of the Tri-State New York Metropolitan Area, 1960
Box: 1, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Manhattan Auto Study, 1973-1986
Box: 1, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Manhattan Auto Study (Final Report), 1986
Box: 1, Folder: Binder (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Chinatown Garment Industry Study, 1983-1999
Box: 1, Folder: 25-26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Chinatown Garment Industry Study (Oversize Materials), 1987
oversize: Small, Folder: OS Schwartz 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Contents Note
Contains report titled "Cooperation for Survival and Growth: New Designs for Apparel Manufacturing in Chicago"
Adaptive Re-Use Feasibility Study for the New York State Armory, 1995
Box: 1, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
20/20 Vision-Smart Growth for the New York metropolitan region., 2003
Box: 2, Folder: 1-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New York Regional Studies: Long Island 2035 (Presentations and Reports), 2008-2009
Box: 2, Folder: 3-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries I.6: Planning Outside the New York Region
University of Pennsylvania: Proposed Off-Street Parking Plan, 1961
Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
University of Pennsylvania: Transportation to and from Campus, 1964
Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Boston Redevelopment Authority: General Plan for the City of Boston and the Regional Core (Reports and Memos), 1961-1963
Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Boston Redevelopment Authority: General Plan for the City of Boston and the Regional Core (Official Publication), 1964
Volume: BV Schwartz, Volume: 1 (Material Type: Books)
Separated Materials Note
A map from this publication has been removed and foldered with the 'Reports and Memos) in Box: 1, Folder: 2. The envelope that this map was housed in has been removed and foldered in OS Schwartz 1.
Boston Redevelopment Authority: General Plan for the City of Boston and the Regional Core (Oversize materials), 1963-1964
oversize: Small, Folder: OS Schwartz 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Contents Note
Includes February 1963 edition of The Boston Globe, and envelope for map held in Box: 1 Folder: 2.
Little Rock, Arkansas; Dorchester, Massachusetts; St. Louis, Missouri, 1998
Box: 2, Folder: 8-9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries I.7: Publications, 1966, 1973
Box: 1, Folder: 11-12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Articles: "An Approach to the Problems of the American Urban Slum" and "Manhattan Without Cars?", 1966, 1973
Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Book: Planning for the Lower East Side, 1973
Box: 2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)