Finding Aid to the Donald Appleyard Papers, 1954-1982, bulk 1966-1982
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Finding Aid to the Donald Appleyard Papers, 1954-1982, bulk 1966-1982
Collection Number: BANC MSS 83/165 c
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Pennington Ahlstrand
- Date Completed:
-
December 2011
© 2011 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Collection Summary
Collection Title: Donald Appleyard papers
Date (inclusive): 1954-1982,
Date (bulk): bulk 1966-1982
Collection Number: BANC MSS 83/165 c
Creators :
Appleyard, Donald
Extent:
Number of containers: 11 cartons, 2 boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder
Linear feet: 14.75
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:
Correspondence, research materials and publications by Donald Appleyard, a professor in the University of California, Berkeley
College of Environmental Design.
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.
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Donald Appleyard Papers, BANC MSS 83/165 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Alternate Forms Available
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Appleyard, Donald--Archives
University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design
Landscape architects-- California
City planning-- California
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.)-- Planning
Landscape assessment
University of California, Berkeley. Environmental Simulation Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design-- Faculty
Landscape architecture
Environmental laboratories-- California-- Berkeley
Environmental psychology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Faculty
Faculty papers.
Photographs.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The Donald Appleyard Papers were given to The Bancroft Library by Sheila Appleyard on June 21, 1983.
Accruals
No additions are expected.
System of Arrangement
Portions of this collection are arranged to the folder level, while others are arranged to the container level.
Processing Information
Processed by Pennington Ahlstrand with Jack Doran, Jae Mauthe, Jamie Nguyen and Spencer Taylor in 2011.
Biographical Information
Donald Appleyard, who spent a major part of his life energies making cities and neighborhoods safe and livable, died in Athens,
Greece, September 1982, an innocent victim of a senseless, speeding automobile. Appleyard was 54 years old. Appleyard, Professor
of Urban Design, was a member of the faculties of the Departments of City and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture
at the University of California, Berkeley.
A native of England, he was educated there as a surveyor and architect. Later he studied city planning at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. Subsequently, he became a member of the M.I.T. faculty and taught there for six years.
Over the years, his interests became focused on the livability of cities and neighborhoods, particularly upon streets. Appleyard
was that rare combination of innovative path-breaking academic researcher and quiet, insistent activist, professional, intent
on getting things done--things that made cities better places for people to live. He was a person of ideas-- especially concerned
with expanding the scope of urban design to encompass thinking from the social sciences.
Most of all, Donald Appleyard was a humanist urban planner who loved to work with people on their environmental problems,
a person concerned about community and public life. Recognized the world over as such, he was called upon by people and professional
colleagues to help them make better urban environments.
Appleyard's research dealt in large measure with subjects including the effects of traffic upon the lives of local residents,
the physical characteristics of cities as fulfilling and joyful places to live, how to manage traffic in residential areas,
conservation of neighborhoods and the like. He was an innovative and creative researcher in exploring these interests, which
accounts for his considerable impact on the field. His methods involved the development of new survey techniques to relate
people's perceptions and values to the design process and to resulting physical environments. He was largely responsible for
the pioneering environmental simulation laboratory which permits testing and comparing different environments and designs
by use of models and video photography where viewers can experience a simulated environment as if they were in it. Examples
of the simulation laboratory work include: making films of the effects of future high-rise development on the San Francisco
skyline, demonstrating the neighborhood impacts of alternative transportation technologies, and evaluating the impact of a
controversial interstate highway.
Professor Appleyard's work was known throughout the world. He was invited to lecture at universities in more than forty countries.
At Berkeley, his teaching was central in shaping the education of a new generation of professionals sensitive to the physical
environment as people experience it.
He authored more than one hundred articles and professional reports and a host of books, including The View From the Road
(1963), Planning a Pluralistic City (1967), The Conservation of European Cities (1979), Improving the Residential Street Environment
(1981), and Livable Streets (1981). Of his writing, Grady Clay, Editor of Landscape Architecture magazine, calls his book
Livable Streets, "by far the most thorough and detailed work on urban streets to date, offering precise ammunition for activists
and citizens for years to come... as a resource for the future, it is a classic." At the time of his death, Appleyard's research
and writings were taking him in new, but related, directions, including a major work on the study of environmental symbolism.
Professionally, Appleyard was active in projects that ranged from detailed neighborhood planning and design, such as the Berkeley
street diverter program, to plans at a citywide scale, such as Ciudad Guayana in Venezuela. He was a major contributor to
the San Francisco Urban Design Plan, had worked in Africa and Mexico, and at the time of his death was on leave working in
Athens on neighborhood planning.
Over the years, he had been chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture and had received numerous awards, not the
least of which was a Fulbright Senior Fellowship to Italy in 1975, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Graham Foundation Fellowship.
He was at the height of his productive, creative years at the time of his death.
Donald Appleyard is survived by his wife, Sheila, and their four children: Justin, Moana, Bruce and Ian. He is survived, too,
by thousands of people who may not have known him but whose environments and lives are more joyful and satisfying because
he helped to plan them--humanely.
Allan B. Jacobs C.C. Cooper-Marcus T.G. Dickert
--University of California: In Memoriam, 1987
Scope and Content of Collection
The Donald Appleyard Papers, 1954-1982, consist primarily of materials documenting Appleyard's career as a Professor in the
College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley and as a consulting urban planner. Much of the collection
relates to his involvement in the design of BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) in the early 1970s, his seminal work "Livable Streets"
about designing for community and materials relating to his teaching career at the University of California, Berkeley. The
collection also contains personal and professional correspondence. The collection is arranged at the series level only, with
minimal arrangement of materials within the individual series.
Series 1
Correspondence
1967-1982
Physical Description:
Cartons 1-2; Carton 3, folders 1-2
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Scope and Content Note
Voluminous collegial, professional (teaching and consulting) and personal correspondence.
Carton 1, Folder 21
Correspondence and Grant Applications
1978
Series 2
Research Files
1971-1976
Physical Description:
Carton 3, folders 3-61; Cartons 4-8; Oversize Box 1
Arrangement
Arranged as received
Scope and Content Note
Files on various research projects conducted by Appleyard
Subseries 2.1
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Project Files
1971-1973
Physical Description:
Carton 3, folders 3-61; Cartons 4-7; Carton 8, folders 1-44; Oversize Box 1
Arrangement
Arranged as received; surveys are filed in the order which they were administered.
Scope and Content Note
Planning and research materials for project as well as multi-page in-depth printed surveys with handwritten responses, some
with photographs and/or diagrams.
Carton 3, Folder 3
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)- Behavioral Observation Study- instructions
circa 1972
Carton 3, Folder 4
Behavior Trace Recording Form- Neighborhood Streets
1972
Carton 3, Folder 5
Urban Residential Environment Study package
1972
Carton 3, Folder 6
Questions for pre-BART Traveler Interview
1972
Carton 3, Folder 7
Travelers Study Main Interview Form
1972
Carton 3, Folder 8
Weather Recording Sheet- Neighborhood Streets
1972
Carton 3, Folder 9
Travelers Study/ Pre-BART Trip to San Francisco/ BART Station Environmental Study
1971-1972
Carton 3, Folder 10
Perceived Transportation Situation
circa 1972
Carton 3, Folder 11
Surveys- instructions for studies
1972
Carton 3, Folder 12
Open Space Survey- notes, drafts
circa 1972
Carton 3, Folder 13
BART Impact on Environmental Quality Study- draft
1971
Carton 3, Folder 14-15
Urban Residential Environment Study
1972
Carton 3, Folder 16-17
BART Behavioral Observation Study
1972
Carton 3, Folder 18
Pre-BART Environmental and Behavior Trace Observations
1972
Carton 3, Folder 19
Field Survey Forms
undated
Carton 3, Folder 21
Neighborhood Surveys- blank
circa 1972
Carton 3, Folder 22
Survey Flashcards
circa 1972
Carton 3, Folder 23-61
Neighborhood Surveys- completed
circa 1972
Carton 4, Folder 1-19
Neighborhood Surveys- completed
circa 1972
Carton 5, Folder 1-18
Neighborhood Surveys- completed
circa 1972
Carton 6, Folder 1-18
Neighborhood Surveys- completed
circa 1972
Carton 7, Folder 3
Noise Assessment
circa 1972
Carton 7, Folder 4
Secondary Data
circa 1972
Carton 7, Folder 5
Behavior Study
circa 1972
Carton 7, Folder 6
Interview Report
circa 1972
Carton 7, Folder 7
What it Aims to To
circa 1972
Carton 7, Folder 8
Comparative Study of the Travelers' Environment on BART
1971
Carton 7, Folder 10
Inquiry Analysis Project Report
1972
Carton 7, Folder 11
The View From BART
circa 1972
Carton 7, Folder 12
Report on the BART Traveler
circa 1972
Carton 7, Folder 13
Project Fact Sheets
circa 1972
Carton 7, Folder 15
Carp, Dr. Francis- publications
1972-1973
Carton 7, Folder 16
BART I- progress reports
1972
Carton 7, Folder 19
BART II- progress reports
1972
Carton 7, Folder 19-20
Richards, Stephen- Case Study of the BART Image
1971
Carton 7, Folder 21
BART II- Traffic Impact
1972
Carton 7, Folder 24
Station and Line Sites
circa 1972
Carton 7, Folder 25
Station Design
circa 1972
Carton 7, Folder 26
Responses to Environmental Proposal
1971
Carton 7, Folder 27
Comparative Assessment of the Environmental Impacts of BART...
circa 1972
Carton 7, Folder 28
Comparative Study of Perceived Environmental Impacts of BART...
circa 1972
Carton 7, Folder 29
Work Statement
circa 1972
Carton 7, Folder 30
Request for Proposal
1971
Carton 7, Folder 31
McFadden-Johnson- original proposals
1971
Carton 7, Folder 32
Other Proposals
circa 1971
Carton 7, Folder 35
Architectural Design
1971
Carton 7, Folder 36
Bucklin- BART Impact Upon Retail Sales Patterns
1972
Carton 7, Folder 37
Willson, Harold L.- A Barrier-Free Rapid Transit System for the S.F. Bay Area
undated
Carton 7, Folder 38-39
Department of Transportation Papers
circa 1972
Carton 7, Folder 40
Transit Bibliography
1971
Carton 8, Folder 4
Additional BART Impact Papers
1970
Carton 8, Folder 5
Inquiry Analysis Project Final Report- Draft
1973
Carton 8, Folder 6
Impacts of the BART System on Land Use and Urban Development- proposal
1975
Carton 8, Folder 7
Urban Design and Visual Quality...
1974
Carton 8, Folder 8
BART carts and stations- photos
undated
Carton 8, Folder 9
"The Case Against Mass Transit"
8 December 1978
Carton 8, Folder 10
A Comparison and Discussion of Noise Generated by BART
1972
Carton 8, Folder 11-12
Betts, R.S.- Design of BART Stations: A Profile
1970
Carton 8, Folder 14
"BART: The Bay Area Takes a Billion Dollar Ride"
undated
Carton 8, Folder 15
BART Stations- environmental assessment methods
undated
Carton 8, Folder 16
Vuchie, V.R.- The BART Experience, Rail Transit and the Revitalization of Our Cities
1977
Carton 8, Folder 17-37
Research Files on Simulation and Designing Studies and Computed Data from BART Studies
circa 1969
Carton 8, Folder 40
Scenes, Sequences and Systems
undated
Carton 8, Folder 42
Identity and Patterning
undated
Carton 8, Folder 43
Street Perception
undated
Oversize Box 1, Folder 1
Photographs, contact sheets, mock-ups
1978
Oversize Box 1, Folder 2
Cross tabulation of San Francisco Residential Streets
1978
Oversize Box 1, Folder 3
Field Research Corporation Report on BART Pedestrian Interviews
undated
Subseries 2.2
Other Projects
1966-1976
Physical Description:
Carton 8, folders 45-49, Oversize folder 1
Arrangement
Arranged as received
Carton 8, Folder 45
Federal Highway Administration- Research Interview Prep
Carton 8, Folder 46
Federal Highway Administration- Progress Reports
1976
Carton 8, Folder 47
Federal Highway Administration- Survey Samples
circa 1976
Oversize B, Folder 1
Downtown Berkeley Revitalization- nine presentation boards
undated
Series 3
Professional activities and University administrative materials
1963-1982
Physical Description:
Cartons 9-10; Carton 11, folders 1-10
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Scope and Content Note
Minutes and memos of most meetings Appleyard attended, including various committees and considerable faculty and departmental
work. Also includes materials relating to consulting and College of Environmental Design/ Department of Planning work
Carton 9, Folder 1-5
Landscape Architecture Department- memos and minutes
1966-1968
Carton 9, Folder 6-7
Urban Design Program
1963-1968
Carton 9, Folder 8
Urban Open Space Research Proposal
1967-1968
Carton 9, Folder 9
Landscape Architecture Department- memos and minutes
1970
Carton 9, Folder 11
Faculty Meetings
1970-1971
Carton 9, Folder 12
Landscape Architecture Department/ Department of City and Regional Planning- Joint Program in Urban Design
1967-1971
Carton 9, Folder 13
Department of City and Regional Planning
1967-1968
Carton 9, Folder 15-17
Landscape Architecture Department- committees
1971-1982
Carton 9, Folder 18
Guggenheim and Fulbright
1974-1975
Carton 10, Folder 1-5
Landscape Architecture Department- committees
1971-1982
Carton 10, Folder 6-8
Landscape Architecture Department- administration
1975
Carton 10, Folder 9
Department of City and Regional Planning- departmental planning
1975
Carton 10, Folder 10
Landscape Architecture Department- departmental planning
1972
Carton 10, Folder 11-12
Landscape Architecture Department- committees
1970-1976
Carton 10, Folder 13-14
Landscape Architecture Department- funding
1968-1976
Carton 10, Folder 15-16
College of Environmental Design committee work
1970-1971
Carton 10, Folder 22-23
Institute of Urban Research and Development
1972
Carton 10, Folder 24
American Institute of Architects
1970-1972
Carton 10, Folder 25
American Society of Landscape Architects
1970-1971
Carton 10, Folder 26
Doctoral Dissertation Support Program
1967-1969
Carton 10, Folder 27-29
Memos and Minutes
1968-1969
Carton 10, Folder 31
Proposal for Doctorate in Environmental Planning
1971
Carton 10
Chairman Appointment
1969
Carton 10, Folder 33-36
College of Environmental Design- administrative materials
1966-1968
Carton 10, Folder 38-39
College of Environmental Design- committee work
1967-1970
Carton 10, Folder 40-43
Grants/ Research Projects
1968-1979
Carton 10, Folder 44
Campus Committee on Man and His (Natural) Environment
1970
Carton 10, Folder 45
Joint Degree Program
1967-1968
Carton 10, Folder 46
State of the Department of Landscape Architecture
1967
Carton 11, Folder 1
State of the Department of Landscape Architecture
1968
Carton 11, Folder 2-8
Faculty Meetings
1975-1978
Carton 11, Folder 9-10
Curriculum Committee
1980-1981
Series 4
Writings
1968-1980
Physical Description:
Carton 11, folders 11-35
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically
Scope and Content Note
Although most publications and working papers have been separated and sent to College of Environmental Design Library, this
series includes materials relating to the Journal of the American Institute of Planners, notes, draft reports and copies of
Dot Zero issue on Highway Signs
Series 5
Course Materials
1957-1978
Physical Description:
Box 1; Box 2, folders 1-3
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Scope and Content Note
Course notes from classes taught at MIT and UC Berkeley.
Box 1, Folder 1-8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1957-1966
Box 1, Folder 9-11
University of California, Berkeley
1967-1969
Box 2, Folder 1-3
University of California, Berkeley
1969,
1978
Series 6
Personalia
1974-1981
Physical Description:
Box 2, folders 4-6
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Scope and Content Note
CVs from 1974-1975, a bumper sticker from the "Livable Streets" campaign, a day planner calendar from 1981
