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Collection Title: Urban Habitat Program records
Date (inclusive): 1970-2001
Collection Number: BANC MSS 2002/65
Creators :
Anthony, Carl
Extent:
Number of containers: 23 cartons
Linear feet: 28.75
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: The Urban Habitat Program (UHP) Records (1970-2001) primarily contain materials accumulated by Carl Anthony, co-founder in
1989, and Executive Director for twelve years. The collection includes Anthony's correspondence; professional activities materials,
mainly relating to his numerous speaking engagements, conferences, meetings and materials of other organizations where he
served in an advisory capacity or officer. Anthony's files also contain his writings; consisting of drafts, published articles,
manuscripts for his book, Landscape of Freedom; and teaching papers, consisting of lectures and course materials. Anthony
maintained resource subject files with general headings such as air quality, environmental justice, military base closures,
sustainable communities, toxics, and transportation. Some biographical information and interviews are included along with
photographs, appointment calendars, and notes. The UHP administrative records contain information about the organization;
staff binders, consisting of correspondence, schedules, priorities, tasks; meeting minutes; strategic plans; major project
files such as Brownfields, Leadership Institute for Sustainable Communities, The Presidio Development, San Francisco Partnership
for Parks, Smart Growth, and Transportation; consultations for leadership transition; funding proposals and resources; organization
activities, outreach, and related materials.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head
of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-6000. Consent is given on behalf of The
Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright
owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Urban Habitat Program Records, BANC MSS 2002/65, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Earth Island Institute records, BANC MSS 2009/129
Videotapes/sound recordings have been transferred to the Microforms Collection of The Bancroft Library, Motion Picture 1015.
Printed materials have been transferred to the book collection of The Bancroft Library. Earth Island Institute records have
been transferred to the Earth Island Institute records collection, BANC MSS 2009/129.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Anthony, Carl--Archives
Urban Habitat Program--Archives
Air--Pollution--California
City planning--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Growth
Environmental justice--California
Environmentalists--California
Environmental responsibility
Land use--California
Regional planning--California--San Francisco Bay Area
Urban transportation--Planning
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--Population
Anthony, Carl
Association of Bay Area Governments
Earth Island Institute
The Urban Habitat Program Records were given to The Bancroft Library by Juliet Ellis on behalf of the Urban Habitat Program
on November 29, 2001.
No additions are expected.
Arranged to the folder level.
Processing of the Urban Habitat Program records was generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and administered
by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The Bancroft Library was awarded a Cataloging Hidden Special Collections
and Archives grant from 2010-2012, "Uncovering California's Environmental Collections," in collaboration with eight additional
special collections and archival repositories throughout the state and the California Digital Library (CDL). Grant objectives
included processing of over 33 hidden collections related to the state's environment and environmental history. The collections
document an array of important sub-topics such as irrigation, mining, forestry, agriculture, industry, land use, activism,
and research. Together they form a multifaceted picture of the natural world and the way it was probed, altered, exploited
and protected in California over the twentieth century. Finding aids are made available through the Online Archive of California
(OAC).
Organizational History/Biographical Information
The Urban Habitat Program (UHP) was founded in 1989 by Carl Anthony, Karl Linn, and David Brower of Earth Island Institute
to build multicultural urban environment leadership for socially just, sustainable communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
UHP fosters and supports initiatives for social and ecological justice taken by historically disenfranchised communities:
African, Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, Native American, working and poor people.
UHP projects include; Transportation and Social Justice, working for regional transportation reform and working with the Bayview
Hunters Point Community in San Francisco on a community design for light rail linked community revitalization; Environmental
Justice and Healthy Communities, convening a Bay Area wide Brownfields Working Group to support, provide leadership training
and technical skills for community-based approaches to redevelopment projects; A Park for All People, working with others
to develop strategies and recommendations to ensure that the Presidio becomes a park for all people; Envisioning Social and
Ecological Justice, promoting ecological literacy to solve the social and ecological challenges facing communities of color,
low income, and working people.
(from the collection)
Carl Anthony is an African American urban planner, architect, 1989 founder and Executive Director for twelve years of the
Urban Habitat Program (UHP). Anthony and UHP have provided important links between environmental and social justice advocates
by encouraging the environmental justice movement to include principles of sustainability and brings a vision of social justice
to traditional environmentalists. In 1990, he co-founded the Race, Poverty & Environment Journal.
Anthony was a member of the Presidio Council for the National Park Service advising on the conversion of the Presidio. From
1991-1997 he was President of Earth Island Institute. He also served on the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council
of the US Environmental Protection Agency, and chaired, from 1993-1995 the East Bay Conversion and Reinvestment Commission,
a nonprofit created as a national pilot project to guide federal policy in the conversion of military bases. He also served
on the Bay Area Government's Regional Planning Committee, Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Metropolitan Forum, and the Trust
for Public Land, and appointed to the California Legislature's Speaker's Commission on State and Local Government Finance.
In 2001, Anthony joined the Ford Foundation as Director of Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Initiative & Regional Equity
Demonstration. He founded Breakthrough Communities, a project of Earth House Center to build multiracial leadership for sustainable
communities in California and the nation. He has been a Senior Ford Foundation Fellow at U.C. Berkeley Department of Geography,
working on a book examining the connections between fields of environmental justice, community development and the changing
face of global urbanization.
(from the collection)
Scope and Content of Collection
The Urban Habitat Program (UHP) Records (1970-2001) primarily contain materials accumulated by Carl Anthony, co-founder in
1989, and Executive Director for twelve years. The collection includes Anthony's correspondence; professional activities materials,
mainly relating to his numerous speaking engagements, conferences, meetings and materials of other organizations where he
served in an advisory capacity or officer. Anthony's files also contain his writings; consisting of drafts, published articles,
manuscripts for his book, Landscape of Freedom; and teaching papers, consisting of lectures and course materials. Anthony
maintained resource subject files with general headings such as air quality, environmental justice, military base closures,
sustainable communities, toxics, and transportation. Some biographical information and interviews are included along with
photographs, appointment calendars, and notes. The UHP administrative records contain information about the organization;
staff binders, consisting of correspondence, schedules, priorities, tasks; meeting minutes; strategic plans; major project
files such as Brownfields, Leadership Institute for Sustainable Communities, The Presidio Development, San Francisco Partnership
for Parks, Smart Growth, and Transportation; consultations for leadership transition; funding proposals and resources; organization
activities, outreach, and related materials.