Excerpt from Planning and the Urban Community: Essays on Urbanism and City Planning Presented Before a Seminar Sponsored by the Joint Committee on Planning and Urban Development of Carnegie Institute of Technology and University of Pittsburgh There are few occasions that lend themselves so naturally to a broad review of a field of professional study as does one in which the possibility of establishing a new training center is being considered. At the beginning of 1958, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Institute of Technology began to examine the desirability and feasibility of setting up a jointly-sponsored planning school. The faculty committee, under the leadership of Dean Donald C. Stone and Dean Norman L. Rice, which had been given the responsibility of developing proposals, invited me to advise them on the most appropriate manner for carrying forward a program of education, research, and advisory services in "planning and urban development." I accepted this invitation as an opportunity to make a contribution under the Resources for the Future program of assistance to universities in the field of regional studies. I asked Perry Norton, who had been until recently Executive Director of the American Institute of Planners, to collaborate with me in this consulting task. Given the very great difficulties involved in establishing a program which required the active support not only of a number of different disciplines but of two separate universities with their own unique approaches and traditions, we urged a careful, step-by-step clarification of the many philosophical and operational issues involved in establishing a joint planning program.

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