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...past decade, while some sectors of the GSD have moved forward, the Planning Department has remained stagnant. Between 1955 and 1970, only three men--Reginald R. Isaacs, Norton Professor of City and Regional Planning; William W. Nash, Jr., '50, former professor of City and Regional Planning; and Francois C. Vigier, professor of City Planning and Urban Design--served as chairman of the Planning Department. Isaacs alone held the chairmanship for over ten years...
Hartman's criticism of Harvard and the GSD has clearly angered the tenured professors of the City Planning Department: Nash, Vigier and Isaacs. Prof. Vigier recently rang up the Ford Foundation and dissuaded it from funding the U.F.S. In June 1969 Professor Nash, then chairman of the City Planning Department, wrote as follows to Hartman: "I have decided that I cannot support your reappointment... and will urge my successor to consider next year as terminal. I am doing this because I am convinced that your method of teaching conveys a sense of political strategy more than the substance of city...
This plan contrasts with a suggestion made by Kilbridge that the committee include William W. Nash '50 and Francois C. D. Vigier, two professors of City Planning generally believed to be opposed to Hartman's reappointment...
According to Francois Vigier, chairman of the department of city planning at the Design School and chairman of the committee, this study was necessary because city planning "has been trying to evolve rapidly, moving away from land use planning into problems of government and economics...
Neither Dean Kilbridge nor Francois C. D. Vigier, Professor of City Planning and unban Design and the current chairman of the planning department, would comment on the student petition yesterday...