Art School 'Goes Practical’
With Class in City Planning
By MAYBE BROWNLEE
This city planning class, at the
school of architecture and allied
■#W:s, whose seven members really
get down and dig for underlying
forces of city planning, was begun
by W. R. B. Willcox, professor
emeritus of architecture, and is
conducted by him with the help of
Harlow E. Hudson. The class pro
ject this term has to do with the I
physical growth and expansion of
boundaries of the city of Eugene.
They started the research with
the first settlers. Carrying it up to
the present, they will, finally, at
tempt to predict future develop
ment on the basis of what they
have learned from the past. Each
student chooses some element of
city, such as parks, the indus
trial area, or residential sections,
as his special project, and compiles
material on that aspect into ten
year periods.
Maps of the city for each ten
years will be made by all the stu
dents as soon as all available ma
terial is gathered, in order to give
a composite picture of the city's
growth. The expansion of Eugene
is studied objectively in order to
find an explanation for the city’s
having spread in the way it did.
For instance: so many people
moved to Westmoreland, and so
much building was going on there,
that for sanitation and protection
it was a necessary annexation to
the town of Eugene.
One of the student assignments
for fall term was to plan a small
residential community developed
around a hydro-electric source. The
population was limited to 1200, but
an arbitrarily drawn railroad and
state highway went through the
center of the town, creating the
problem of preserving community
spirit in spite of this dividing line.
As a result, some beautiful maps
-*ere produced. Right now the city
planning class is terminating its
study of the history of city plan
ning with the consideration of cir
culation, or transportation. Re
cently Mr. Willcox gave a lecture
on Paris and Washington D.C., il
lustrating with slides—and seven
city planners declared that they
had taken a tour of these two
beautiful cities.
In order that in the future the
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students may be able to plan fine
cities, Mr. Willcox and Mr. Hud
son are trying to instill in their
pupils more of the attitude of in
quiry than just “How to plan
cities—in three easy terms.” They
claim, and are trying' to make the
younger men see, that the way
cities grow is part of the natural
law, and that if they can under
stand that, and how the law works
as an impersonal force, that then
they may be able to direct this
force intelligently, and to mold the
great cities of the world, in the
right direction. 1
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Oops—Wet Paint! j
Receives Complaint
Chapman hall’s new spring coat
of paint is almost complete now,
with Condon hall next on the list.
The movie screen in 207 Chapman
has been painted with aluminum
for brighter pictures.
Fritz Larsen, painter, proposes a
new class in reading which would
teach students and professors the I
meaning of WET PAINT. He re
ports numerous accidents, some of
which occurred when the overflow
of Kerensky admirers sat on fresh
ly painted window sills. The roofs
of Fenton and Friendly halls are
to receive a crimson coat some
time this spring, Larsen says.
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