HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS NINETIETH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION APRIL 19, 1967 PART 16 Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Operations 83-453 O U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1967 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office CONTENTS WITNESSES Lee E. Ham, president, Wilsey & Ham, and member of the Consulting Archibald C. Rogers, chairman, Committee on Urban Design, American Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner, provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology- Harold F. Wise, chairman, National Legislative Committee, American 215. A report to the Panel on Civilian Technology, Office of Science and Technology, Executive Office of the President, "Better Housing for the Future," submitted by the Subpanel on Housing of the Panel on Civilian Technology, and letters of transmittal from Jerome B. Wiesner, Director of the Office of Science and Technology, to Secre- tary of Commerce, Luther H. Hodges, April 1963.- 216. Article from International Science and Technology, "Technology for the City," by John B. Eberhard, Director, Institute for Applied Technoloy, National Bureau of Standards, September 1966---- 217. Statement from the Engineering Foundation Research Conference on the Social Consequences of Technology, "Technology and Urban Needs," by James Alcott, Midwest Research Institute, prepared for the National Commission on Technology, Automation, and 218. "The Politics and Financing of Education: Federal, State, and Local Interaction," by Alan K. Campbell, director of the metropolitan studies program, Syracuse University, presented to the 44th annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, March 219. Article from the New York Times, "Home Design Drab in U.S., Study Says," by Ada Louise Huxtable, architectural critic for the New York Times, February 13, 1967-. 220. Letter from Archibald C. Rogers, chairman, Committee on Urban Design, the American Institute of Architects, to Senator Ribicoff, May 1, 1967, submitted with a series of articles from the Baltimore Sun, April 21 and 23, 1967, concerning the question of the archi- tect's willingness and ability to address himself to public issues.. 221. Article from the Wall Street Journal, "Scandinavians Put Up Satellite 222. Remarks of Robert C. Weaver, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, made upon the opening of the first building constructed under the Turnkey approach, and ac- companying HUD press release, January 31, 1967- 223. Speech delivered at the Conference on the State of the Future, "Unhappy Thoughts About the Future of Our Cities," by Victor H. Palmieri, president, Janss Investment Corp., Los Angeles, 224. Article from Scientific American, "The Modern Metropolis," by Hans Blumenfeld, lecturer, School of Town and Regional Planning, University of Toronto, September 1965--- 225. Article from the Technology Review, "The Urban Challenge: Toward the Plural City," by Leonard J. Fein, assistant professor of political Page 3390 3352 3412 FEDERAL ROLE IN URBAN AFFAIRS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1967 U. S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON EXECUTIVE REORGANIZATION, The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:40 a.m., in room 1114, New Senate Office Building, Senator Abraham Ribicoff (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Ribicoff, Kennedy of New York, Harris, Javits, and Baker. Also present: Paul Danaceau, staff director; Robert Wager, general counsel; Esther Newberg, chief clerk; Richard Bowen, professional staff member, Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization. Senator RIBICOFF. The subcommittee will be in order. We are fortunate in having as our first witness Jerome Wiesner, dean of the School of Science at MIT. We welcome you here, not only as a knowledgeable man, but as a former colleague. I do not know anyone in the country who has had such basic, wide experience in the field of government and science than Dean Wiesner. From my contacts with him during the Kennedy administration, few men in our Government were more on top of the problems of science and organization than Dean Wiesner, even though much of it might not have gotten in the public print. But I think he was the man behind many things that were achieved in the years he served in Washington. And we are grateful to you, Dean Wiesner, for giving us the advantage of your experience and your knowledge. We have your statement. I suggest you proceed as you wish. May I say that you have with you a number of appendixes and all of these will be made a part of the record, and your statement will be made a part of the record as if read in its entirety. STATEMENT OF DR. JEROME B. WIESNER, PROVOST, Dr. WIESNER. Thank you very much, Senator, for the fine introduction and the opportunity to be here this morning. Actually, I do not know whether I should thank you for the opportunity or not. As you know, when you asked me to come, I demurred because I did not think I was enough of an expert on any of these specifics that are of interest to your subcommittee to warrant my coming. But after you urged me to, I talked to a number of my colleagues at MIT who are more professionally equipped to talk about these problems, and we decided that it would be, we thought, useful |