The Master Plan, 1969

Ernestine Friedlander, Chairman [sic] of the Housing and Planning Committee of the Women' City Club of New York, member of Citizen's Advisory Committee of the Housing and Planning Administration, Donald Elliot, Chairman of the New York City Planning Commission and Director of the Department of City Planning, and Robert Halpern, planning consultant and teacher at the Pratt Institute's Department of City and Regional Planning and past executive director of the Park Association discuss the so called 'Master Plan' - "The Plan for New York City 1969, A Proposal" published in 1969 by the New York City Planning Commission. Panelists discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the plan and the path ahead. Mr. Elliott was in fact one of the authors of the plan and is called on to defend it. Gloria Chapman of New York University moderates.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 92522