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Carl Almblad Papers Carl W. Almblad Collection Papers, 1913-1988 24 linear feet Accession # 1602 DALNET # OCLC # Carl W. Almblad was born on August 16, 1924 in Chicago and spent his entire professional career as an urban planner. He pursued undergraduate studies in civil engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology in the early 1940s and received a B.S. in architecture from the University of Illinois in 1950 and an M.S. in urban planning from Wayne State University in 1961. In 1950 he began work with the Chicago Plan Commission as a student intern and was later promoted to associate planner. His responsibilities included conducting redevelopment studies, housing and economic studies, and regional studies. Mr. Almblad left Chicago in 1953 to join the Detroit City Plan Commission where he worked over the next several years as a senior, principal and, finally, head city planner, responsible for urban renewal planning, master plan studies, coordination with neighborhood groups, model neighborhood plans, and city-wide historic and renewal studies. In 1971 he was appointed assistant director of the City Plan Commission. In 1974, Mr. Almblad assumed leadership of the City of Detroit Community and Economic Development Department. As planning head of the department, his duties included regulating zoning uses, urban renewal planning, public works projects administration and responsibility for urban design, graphics, exhibits and films. He left in 1982 to become chief administrator of the Detroit Historic District Commission. After his retirement in June of 1988, Mr. Almblad relocated to North Carolina, where he has become an avid watercolorist. The papers of Carl W. Almblad contain correspondence, manuals, maps, reports, studies and printed material related to urban planning, urban renewal and historic district development in the cities of Chicago and Detroit. PLEASE NOTE: Folders are computer-arranged alphabetically within each series in this finding aid, but may actually be dispersed throughout several boxes in the collection. Note carefully the box number for each folder heading. Carl W. Almblad Collection - 2 - Important subjects in the collection: American Institute of Planners Blessing, Charles A. Cavanagh, Jerome P. Central business districts--Michigan--Detroit Chicago (Ill.)--City planning Cobo, Albert E. Detroit--Virginia Park neighborhood Detroit--West side industrial neighborhood Detroit Medical Center Detroit (Mich.) City Plan Commission Detroit (Mich.)--City planning Detroit (Mich.) Community and Economic Development Department Detroit (Mich.) Historic District Commission Detroit (Mich.)--Model Neighborhood Agency Detroit (Mich.)--Population Detroit (Mich.)--Race relations Detroit (Mich.)--Social policy Detroit (Mich.)--Urban renewal Federal aid to community development--Michigan--Detroit Gribbs, Roman S. Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--Michigan--Detroit Historic districts--Michigan--Detroit Housing rehabilitation--Michigan--Detroit Miriani, Louis C. New Center Commons Virginia Park Wayne State University--Michigan--Detroit Young, Coleman A. Non-manuscript material: A few photographs and a large collection of slides have been transferred to the Archives Audiovisual Collection and several books on urban planning and the city of Detroit have been placed in the Archives Library. Carl W. Almblad Collection - 3 - Contents 24 storage boxes Series I, Personal, 1938-1962, Boxes 1-2, p. 4 This series contains notes, reports, and studies pertaining to Mr. Almblad's time in Chicago as well as his education at the University of Illinois and Wayne State University. Other information on Chicago may by found in Series IV, Other Cities. For more information about Mr. Almblad's career with the City of Detroit, see Series II, Detroit City Planning Commission and Series III, Historic District Commission. Series II, Detroit City Plan Commission, 1913-1988, Boxes 2-17, p. 5 This series contains agendas, articles, brochures, budgets, clippings, drawings, guides, manuals, maps, notes, papers, plans, proposals, reports, scripts, etc. to reflect the activities of the Detroit City Plan Commission and urban planning. The documents are arranged by geographic area, city department and subject to reflect . Series III, Historic District Commission, 1964-1988, Boxes 16, 18-22, p. 17 This series contains articles, brochures, budgets, contracts, guidelines, maps, notes, procedures, recommendation, reports, etc. pertaining to the Detroit Historic District Commission activities including historic district designation, rehabilitation techniques, approval procedures and city ordinances, citizen organizations, and information about historic districts. Series IV, Other Cities, 1947-1987, Boxes 22-24, p. 23 This series contains articles, brochures, clippings, and reports pertaining to urban planning and historic designations in cities outside the Detroit Metropolitan Area. For more information on Chicago see also Series I, Personal. Carl W. Almblad Collection - 4 - Series I Personal, 1938-1962 Boxes 1-2 Box-folder Folder heading 1-35 Biographical information, 1946-96 1-18 Chicago; centennial competition, Central Commercial District, 1954 1-9 Chicago; Central Area Technical Appendix, 1952 1-12 Chicago; Civic Center, 1949 1-17 Chicago; freight tunnels, 1948 1-1 Chicago; Local Community Fact Book, 1938 1-14 Chicago; Near South Area [part 8], 1952 1-5 Chicago; North Central Area 3 report, 1951 1-16 Chicago; North Sector development guide, 1953 1-13 Chicago; North Sector study, 1950 1-6 Chicago; Northwest Central Area 4 report, 1951 1-15 Chicago; outlying sectors, North Sector maps, survey, 1952 1-11 Chicago; population, 1942 1-23 Chicago; railroad history, 1947 1-22 Chicago; "Railway Passenger Terminal Situation at Chicago," 1931 1-2 Chicago; residential densities, 1951 1-10 Chicago; South Area report, 1951 1-3 Chicago; South Central Area 1 report, 1950 1-8 Chicago; Southwest Area 6 report, 1951 1-7 Chicago; Southwest Central Area 5 report, 1951 1-25 Chicago; St. Charles Air Line, 1950 1-24 Chicago; subway, 1949-1951 1-20 Chicago; "The Traffic Problem as Related to Chicago, Illinois," 1949 1-19 Chicago; Traffic Survey, Boy Scout study, 1941 1-4 Chicago; West Central Area 2 report, 1951 1-31 "Civil Service: Does It Need an Overhaul?"; Detroit Free Press article, 1973 1-28 University of Illinois; City Planning, 1949 1-21 University of Illinois; "Toward a Solution to the Traffic Problem in Chicago," 1949 2-5 Vita, partial, Feb 1969 1-26 Wayne State University; Goals 714, Seldlin, 1961 1-32 WSU Administrative Aspects of Urban Planning; "Detroit Redevelopment Administration Organization," 1959 1-30 WSU; Detroit Medical Center: Social Dimensions, 1960 2-4 WSU; "Detroit Redevelopment Administrative Organization," 1960 1-29 WSU; Master Plan and Stratification, 1960 1-33 WSU; Sociological Aspects of Planning, 1960 1-27 WSU, "The New Community," 1949 Carl W. Almblad Collection - 5 - Series I Personal Files Box 1 Box-folder Folder heading 1-34 WSU thesis; "An Analysis of the West Side Industrial Urban Renewal Project," 1965 2-2 WSU thesis; design and sketches, c. 1960 2-3 WSU thesis; notes, 1958-62 2-1 WSU thesis; photos, c. 1960 2-6 WSU; Urban Design I, 1960-61 Carl W. Almblad Collection - 6 - Series II Detroit City Plan Commission, 1913-1988 Boxes 2-17 Box-folder Folder heading 7-80 Administration, 1973 7-79 Affirmative Action; activities, 1972-1973 5-7 AIP (American Institute of Planners), 1959 5-9 thru 11 AIP, 1960-1964 5-5 AIP; corres., 1958 4-34 AIP; handbook and roster, 1954 4-35 AIP; Michigan Chapter, 1953-1957 5-6 AIP; Michigan Chapter, 1959 5-2 thru 3 AIP; Michigan Chapter; local, 1958 5-1 AIP; Michigan Chapter meeting minutes, 1958 4-36 AIP; Michigan Chapter yearbook, 1958 5-8 AIP; Michigan Chapter yearbook, 1959 5-4 AIP; recruitment, 1958 5-34 “AIP the Next 50 Years”; environmental, creating the future, 1967 5-37 “AIP the Next 50 Years: Housing”; Charles Abrams paper, 1967 5-38 “AIP the Next 50 Years: Manpower”; Jack Meltzer paper, 1967 5-42 “AIP the Next 50 Years: National Policy”, 1967 5-44 “AIP the Next 50 Years”; notes, 1967 5-36 “AIP the Next 50 Years: Planning for the Future,” 1967 5-35 “AIP the Next 50 Years: Planning in the U.S.”; history, 1967 5-39 “AIP the Next 50 Years: Profit Motive”; uses in better planning, 1967 5-43 “AIP the Next 50 Years”; social issues, 1967 5-40 “AIP the Next 50 Years”; transportation, 1967 5-41 “AIP the Next 50 Years”; urban planning future cities, 1967 4-18 thru 19 American Baptist Hanover Grove Housing; low income housing, 1970-77 4-20 American Baptist Hanover Grove Housing; senior housing, 1972 9-45 American Institute of Architects; seminars on planning, 1961-62 15-68 American Institute of Architects; citation for excellence, 1965 14-24 thru 42 Annual Report of the Detroit City Planning Commission, 1928, 1940-74 2-31 thru 32 Arts Center, 1976-78 2-33 Arts Center; Detroit Science Museum Society, 1954 2-34 Arts Center; proposal, Jul 1969 10-24 Ash-Humbalt, 1966 2-10 ASPO (American Society of Planning Officials) conference; urban aesthetics, 1953 2-11 ASPO conference; urban design, 1958 4-31 thru 33 ASPO; National Planning Conference, 1953, 1972 7-76 Blessing, Charles Alexander; bio., 1972 Carl W. Almblad Collection - 7 - Box-folder Folder heading 7-82 thru 83 Budget and program, 1974-75 6-21 thru 25 Budget performance, 1953-58 7-64 thru 67 Budget performance, 1960-69 6-26 thru 29 Budget request, 1969-72 7-1 Budget request, 1972-73 7-68 Budget request, 1973-74 12-8 Calumet Rehabilitation project; clipping, May 1966 2-30 Cass Corridor, 1978 2-13 Cavanagh, Mayor Jerome P.; remarks before the Michigan Society of Architects, 8 Mar 1963 8-27 thru 28 CBD (Central Business District), 1950s-1970s 3-50 CBD, 1959 12-14 CBD; economic study, 1957 8-31 CBD; People Mover, 1980 10-26 CBD Project #1, 1962-67 11-27 CBD Project #1; declaration of restrictions, c. 1963 11-1 CBD Project #1; final project report, Dec 1958 11-22 CBD Project #1; International Village, 1961-63 11-23 CBD Project #1; International Village purchase agreement, 1963 11-26 CBD Project #1; land use and maps, c.
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