Size	15.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 8150 items)
Abstract	Philip Gibbon Hammer (1914- ), urban economist and city planner of Atlanta, Ga., Washington, D.C., and Palm Harbor, Fla. Subject files, about eighty articles and speeches by Hammer, pictures, and other materials of Philip G. Hammer. Subject files hold correspondence, reports, clippings, and other materials concerning many of Hammer's activities, especially various projects in Atlanta, Ga., and Washington, D.C., and his work with the Conservation Foundation, the National Planning Association, and South Associates, Inc.
Creator	Hammer, Philip G.
Curatorial Unit	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language	English

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Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Philip G. Hammer papers #4527, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Philip Gibbon Hammer of Palm Harbor, Florida, in December 1988 (Acc. 88121), July (Acc. 90093) and November (Acc. 90143) 1990, and August 1993 (Acc. 93117).

Received from Phillips G. Hammer in August 1993.

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Processed by: Linda Sellars, July 1989; Roslyn Holdzkom, January 1991, September 1993

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas, February 2022

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Atlanta (Ga.)--History.
• City planning--United States--History--20th century.
• Conservation Foundation.
• Conservation of natural resources--United States--History--20th century.
• Hammer, Philip G.
• Land use, Urban--United States.
• National Planning Association.
• South Associates, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.)
• Urban economics.
• Urban policy--United States.
• Washington (D.C.)--History.

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Philip Gibbon Hammer

1914: Born 18 September in Philadelphia, Pa., son of John Levering and Emma (Gibbon) Hammer. Raised in Wilmington, NC.

1936: Received A. B. from University of North Carolina

1936-1939: Harvard University

Rockefeller Fellow in Training for the Public Service, 1936-1937

Intern on staff of Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., in Washington, D. C., 1937-1938

Littauer Fellow in Public Administration, 1938-1939

Passed general exams for Ph.D. in political economy

1939-1941: Chief, editorial section, Farm Security Administration, U. S. Department of Agriculture

1941-1943: Chief, program analysis section, Farm Security Administration, U. S. Department of Agriculture

1943-1944: Staff assistant to Herbert H. Lehman (former governor of New York), Director, Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

1944-1946: Staff assistant to Herbert H. Lehman, Director-General, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

1947-1950: Principal associate, Joseph K. Heyman Company, economic and business analysts, Atlanta, Georgia

1949-1950: Project director for reorganization of local government, Local Government Commission of Fulton County, Georgia

1950-1953: Executive Director, Metropolitan Planning Commission, Atlanta

1953: Executive officer, Committee of the South, National Planning Association

1953: Director of research, study of Negro schools in the South (with Harry S. Ashmore), Fund for the Advancement of Education

1954-1979: Founder, president, chairman, Hammer and Company Associates (later, Hammer, Siler, George Associates), economic consultants, Atlanta/Washington/Denver

1979-1985: Consultant in urban economics, part-time, Philip Hammer, Inc

Activities:

1953-1955: Planning Council, Atlanta Community Chest

1954-1957: Board of Directors, Fernbank Forest, Inc., Atlanta

1955-1957: Board of Directors, Southern Regional Council

1955-1957: Family Service Society of Atlanta

1955-1958: Board of Directors, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce

1956-1961: Board of Directors, Atlanta Urban League

1958: Representative from Fulton County, Metropolitan Planning Commission

1958-1961: Advisory Committee, Graduate School of City Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology

1959-1960: Lecturer on economics, Georgia Institute of Technology and Atlanta University

1961- : Board of Directors, Potomac Institute

1964-1966: Consultant to Taconic Foundation

1965: Acting executive director, Urban America

1967-1968: President's Task Force on Suburban Problems

1967-1980: Board of Directors, Planning and Development Collaborative International

1967-1981: Board of Trustees, Clark College (Atlanta University)

1968-1969: Chairman, National Capital Planning Commission

1968-1969: President, American Society of Planning Officials

1970-1973: Commission on Governance of Metropolitan Areas, Resources for the Future

1971: Lecturer, Howard University

1972- : Board of Trustees, World Wildlife Fund/ The Conservation Foundation

1972-1973: Faculty, Dag Hammarskjold College, Columbia, Maryland

1973: Member, U. S. delegation, United States-South Africa Leader Exchange Program

1973-1975: Board of Directors, Soul City Foundation

1973-1976: District of Columbia Bicentennial Commission

1973-1977: Board of Directors, Cousins Properties, Atlanta

1973-1977: Board of Directors, National Council for Equal Business Opportunity

1973-1982: Board of Trustees, National Planning Association

1974- : American Planning Association Foundation

1975-1979: Representative of District of Columbia Mayor, National Capital Planning Commission

1977: Distinguished Practitioner/Lecturer, College of Business Administration, University of Georgia

1978- : Board of Editors, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMENTARY Magazine

1981-1984: Chairman, Building Research Board (formerly Advisory Board on the Built Environment), National Academy of Sciences

1983-1985: Lecturer, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina

1985- : Chairman, Advisory Board, Northwestern Council for Urban Economic Development (CUED) Institute for Economic Development, Evanston

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This collection contains correspondence, reports, clippings, articles, speeches, and other materials that document the professional life of Philip Gibbon Hammer. Each phase of Hammer's education and work is documented, including many professional activities in addition to his employment and consulting work. The bulk of the material dates from the 1950s through the 1970s.

In Series 1, Subject Files, file titles established by Hammer have been retained. Articles were placed in alphabetical order; and speeches, speech notes, and correspondence about speaking engagements were placed in chronological order during processing.

The following descriptions were written by Philip Hammer. The first folder in each group contains more extensive information provided by Hammer.

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• Oversize papers (OP-4527/1-9)
• Photographs (P-4527/1-4)
• Oversize photographs (OP-P-4527/1)

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