Urban Habitat Program records, 1970-2001

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Summary

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.
Extent:
28.75 linear feet (23 cartons), 62 videocassettes, 1 videotape, and 30 sound cassettes
Language:
Collection materials are in English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Urban Habitat Program Records, BANC MSS 2002/65, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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)

Acquisition information:
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.
Processing information:

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).

Arrangement:

Arranged to the folder level.

Accruals:

No additions are expected.

Physical location:
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Restrictions:

Collection is open for research. AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: RESTRICTED fragile material.Access copies may be requested through Bancroft Public Services.

Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Urban Habitat Program Records, BANC MSS 2002/65, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
Contact:
510-642-6481
bancref-library@berkeley.edu
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