Seymour Jacob Mandelbaum[1] (January 13, 1936 – January 23, 2013) was an American professor of urban history and planning at the University of Pennsylvania.[2]

Biography

Mandelbaum was born in Chicago on January 13, 1936. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1956 and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1962.[3] His Ph.D. dissertation on 1870s New York City history led to his publication of Boss Tweed's New York (1965).[2][4]

Mandelbaum taught at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Annenberg School for Communication, and joined the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in 1967 and was made emeritus professor in 2004.[2] His research interests included planning theory and planning ethics as well as the political, social, and moral implications of planning policies.[1][5][6]

Mandelbaum received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965.[2][7] He died on January 23, 2013, at age 77.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Writer, By Bonnie L. Cook, Inquirer Staff. "S. Mandelbaum, professor of city planning at Penn". inquirer.com. Retrieved 2022-06-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Seymour J. Mandelbaum *62". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 2016-01-21. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  3. ↑ "Obituaries | Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  4. ↑ Birch, Eugenie L. (2006). "Seymour Mandelbaum as an Intellectual Colleague: "Boss Tweed's New York" as a Template". Planning Theory. 5 (2): 115–120. doi:10.1177/1473095206064969. ISSN 1473-0952. JSTOR 26001733. S2CID 144264444.
  5. ↑ "01/29/13, Deaths - Almanac, Vol. 59, No. 19". almanac.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  6. ↑ Mandelbaum, Seymour J. (October 1985). "The Institutional Focus of Planning Theory". Journal of Planning Education and Research. 5 (1): 3–9. doi:10.1177/0739456X8500500101. ISSN 0739-456X. S2CID 144849274.
  7. ↑ "Seymour J. Mandelbaum". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
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