伯爵A. Levin档案馆
收集摘要
Repository: The Institute of Urban Studies Library, University of Winnipeg
创作者：伯爵·亚伦·莱文博士
标题：Earl A. Levin档案馆博士
Dates: 1960 – 2007
数量：1.10 m的文本记录
Biography of Dr. Earl Aaron Levin
厄尔·莱文（Earl Levin）于1919年出生于温尼伯。他在计划领域工作了40多年 - 大约一半在公共部门，在私营部门的时间长度。他曾在市政，大都会，省和联邦政府以及私人咨询实践和学术的计划中担任策划人。他是在温哥华市成立的第一规划部门的工作人员；渥太华的中央（现为加拿大）抵押和住房公司的规划师；萨斯喀彻温省的规划主任和省立计划上诉委员会秘书；多伦多的城市和地区规划师Murray V. Jones及其同事的副总裁；大温尼伯大都会公司规划部主任；Damas和Smith Ltd.温尼伯办公室主任，工程师和规划师以及该公司的公司发展总监；以及他自己的厄尔·莱文顾问公司（Earl Levin Consultants Inc.）的咨询公司总裁，城市和地区规划师。他还为英国伦敦伦敦县议会和英格兰埃塞克斯郡巴西尔登市的巴西尔登新镇公司工作了一段时间。 Mr. Levin has been a faculty member of the University of British Columbia.
Education
莱文博士的第一批专上入学率是艺术与科学学院曼尼托巴大学。在完成该计划的最后一年之前，他改用了建筑。在建筑的第一年之后，他加入了加拿大部队，并在西北欧洲战场上服役，并与队长一起服役。战争结束后，他回到曼尼托巴大学，获得了建筑学士学位。他于1950年去英国伦敦，在区域发展计划与研究学院进行研究生学习。亚博网站网址他成功完成了课程，并获得了规划学院的文凭（S.P.文凭 - 没有授予学位）。然后，他于1952年回到加拿大获得硕士学位。不列颠哥伦比亚大学社区与区域规划学院的学位。亚愽娱乐app1993年，他获得了博士学位。由曼尼托巴大学。 The title of his doctoral thesis was “City History and City Planning: The Local Historical Roots of the City Planning Function in Three Cities of the Canadian Prairies”.
奖项和区别
中央抵押和住房公司研究生奖学金，1952- 1953年；
温哥华贸易委员会运输和海关局，1953年；
Social Services and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1989-1990.
1964年至1965年，加拿大镇计划研究所主席（TPI现在是加拿大规划师研究所）；
1965年，萨斯喀彻温省专业规划师协会的创始人兼首次董事长，以及曼尼托巴省协会的服务奖，加拿大规划师学院对计划领域的杰出贡献，1990年。
项目和活动
Because of the variety of his appointments and roles Mr. Levin has been involved in a wide rage of planning projects and activities. Among these are the preparation of official and general development plans, downtown plans, land-use and housing studies, amalgamation studies, annexation studies, studies for residential and industrial development, research park feasibility studies, design for a new town based on potash mining in Saskatchewan, drafting zoning bylaws and land-use regulations and numerous other planning and development projects. Places for which these projects and activities were carried out include cities such as Toronto, Hamilton, Windsor, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary and smaller centers such as Pembroke, Owen Sound, Brandon, Estevan, Weyburn, Melville and remote centers in northern Canada including Churchill, Fort Smith, Great Whale River, and Inuvik. He also prepared studies and reports for Aboriginal communities including the Sabaskong School study for the band at Nestor Falls, a development plan and commercial site study for the band at The Pas, the Neeginan proposal for the Aboriginal community in downtown Winnipeg and the Ta-Mi-No-Sah study of job-creation and social development programs for native people in Manitoba.
Dr. Levin has been involved in strategy and policy planning for municipal, provincial, and federal government departments and agencies. He was a member of the Task Force on City Government to advise the City of Edmonton on reorganizing its system of governance; a member of the Special Cabinet Committee on Reorganization of Local Government in Greater Winnipeg (i.e. amalgamation of the twelve local governments); a member of Manitoba’s Commission on Targets for Economic Development. He prepared a report on residential Conversion in Canada for Central (now Canada) Mortgage and Housing Corporation. He was a member of the Board of the Manitoba Theatre Centre, of the Winnipeg Art Gallery and of the Manitoba Opera Association. He also served for a term on the Board of the Canadian Council on Urban and Regional Research.
Dr. Levin was Professor and Head of the Department of City Planning at the University of Manitoba and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Urban Studies at the University of Winnipeg. He also held a term appointment on the faculty of the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia.
退休
莱文博士搬到了维多利亚,公元前1993年。在his stay in that city he was, for about nine years a member of the Board of Directors of the Fairfield Community Association. He served for the full allowed term of six years as a member of the City of Victoria’s Advisory Planning Commission. He was also a member of the city’s special Planning Advisory Committee on the redevelopment of the Fairfield Centre/Mount St. Mary Hospital site- a major redevelopment project in that sector of Victoria. In 2006 Dr. Levin’s wife died in Victoria and he moved back to Winnipeg to live in retirement with his son David and his son’s family.
收藏的范围和内容
该集合分为7个文件框：
Box 1: Speeches 1960 - 1969
Box 2: Speeches 1970 - 1983
Box 3: Speeches 1984 -- ; Reports, Papers, Research
Box 4: Correspondence 1965 - 1969
方框5：通讯1970-
方框6：项目和机构文件
方框7：报纸和文章剪报；学位和证书
Significance
在他漫长的和有影响力的职业在城市人民解放军nning, Dr. Levin was the Director of Planning for the Province of Saskatchewan; Director of city planning for Metropolitan Winnipeg; the head of the City Planning program at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba; a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Urban Studies at the University of Winnipeg; and the President of the Town Planning Institute of Canada (now the Canadian Institute of Planners). As both a consultant and a public sector planner Earl Levin was involved in some of Winnipeg’s most important planning processes, including Neeginan and the Core Area Initiative.
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Custodial History
The archive was donated by Earl A. Levin to the Institute of Urban Studies in the summer of 2007 and ownership was officially transferred effective January 1st 2008.