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Moynihan, Director of the Joint Canter for Urban Studies of MIT and his involvement in the Department of Transportation. 3 pages. [Other Document], n.d.
The New Racialism. By Daniel P Moynihan for the Atlantic Monthly. Not scanned. [Newspaper], n.d.
Urbanologist Pat Moynihan. Time Magazine. Not scanned. [Newspaper], 7/28/1967
Next: A New Auto Insurance Policy. By: Daniel P Moynihan for New York Time Magazine. Not scanned. [Newspaper], 8/27/1967
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Urbanologist Pat Moynihan. Time Magazine. Not scanned. [Newspaper], 7/28/1967
Next: A New Auto Insurance Policy. By: Daniel P Moynihan for New York Time Magazine. Not scanned. [Newspaper], 8/27/1967
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Other Document
Moynihan, Director of the Joint Canter for
Urban Studies of MIT and his involvement in
the Department of Transportation. 3 pages.
40
6
n.d.
Newspaper
The New Racialism. By Daniel P Moynihan
for the Atlantic Monthly. Not scanned.
40
6
07/28/1967
Newspaper
Urbanologist Pat Moynihan. Time Magazine.
Not scanned.
40
6
08/27/1967
Newspaper
Next: A New Auto Insurance Policy. By:
Daniel P Moynihan for New York Time
Magazine. Not scanned.
Friday, October 26, 2007
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Moynihan is director of the Joint Center for
Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and Harvard University. In this, and in public and academic
positions going back several decades he has been actively
involved with issues of transportation as they affect the
development of the American city and, in particular, problems
of urban poverty.
During the administrations of Presidents Kennedy
and Johnson he was involved in planning the establishment of
the Department of Transportation. Recently he was appointed
a member of the Department's Advisory Committee on Mass
Transportation, a body established following the transfer
of responsibility to DOT from the Department of Housing and
Urban Development. As assistant Secretary of Labor for
Policy Planning and Research he was responsible for a series
of studies concerning employment problems in transportation,
especially in those sectors where technological change
has led to declining employment, or radical changes in the
nature of employment.
Moynihan is the author of a number of papers
on the impact of highway design on urban development, and
has been especially involved with questions of the redistribution
of employment oppartunities that has accompanied the drift
Suborban
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of factory employment to, exurban locations as the Interstate
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Defense Highway system has gradually taken shape.
As chairman of the Seminar on Race and Poverty of the
American Academy of Arts & Sciences he arranged the
first Conference on Poverty and Transportation, held
in June 1968 under a grant from the Departments of HUD
and DOT.
As secretary to Governor Averell Harriman
in the mid-1950's, Moynihan served as chairman of the
New York State Traffic Safety Policy Coordinating Committee
during the period when that body developed the epidemiological
approach to automobile safety problems that has since
beenmincorporated in national legislation and has set
a standard for government and industry practice throughout
the world. His papers on the theory and applied practice of
design regulation, written at this time, have been extensively
cited. During the 1950's he served as a member of the
Interdepartmental Traffic Safety Committee of the Federal
government, and as Department of Labor representatinve on the
President's Committee on Traffic Safety. In 1966 Secretary
of Health, Education, and Welfare John Gardner appointed him
Department's
chairman of the A Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety.
The report of this body, calling for a wide ranging program
of "second generation" studies of the impact of the automoible
on modern society, was issued in March, 1968.
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Most recently Moynihan has been involved
with questions of the provision of a more effective
insurance system for automobile drivers. In the spring
of 1967 he delivered the opening paper at a conference
on this subject sponsored by the College of Law of the
University of Illinois which will be published in a
forthcoming volume.
As vice-chairman of the President's Commission
on Pennsylvania Avenue' he has, since 1962, been closely
involved with transportation matters in the nation's capital,
especially those affecting the traffic patterns of the
central city. He has been a consultant to a variety of
city government's on highway planning and the development
of mass transportation. Most recently he has served as
a consultant to the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings,
and Merrill which has been engaged to design the interstate
highway system for the City of Baltimore.
Moynihan served in the U.S. Navy 1943-46, latterly
as communication and gunnery officer of the U.S.S. Quirinus.
During 1951-53 he was employed by the U.S. Air Force in Great
Britain.
Moynihan is also Professor of Government andUrban
Politics at Harvard University, and a Member of the Institute
of Politics of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He
is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the
American Philosophical Society, and has received fifteen
honorary degrees.