Stanley Hallett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Stanley Hallett

American urban planner

Date of Birth: 06-Oct-1930

Place of Birth: New Hampton, Iowa, United States

Date of Death: 24-Nov-1998

Profession: urban planner, landscape architect

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Stanley Hallett

  • Stanley James Hallett (October 6, 1930 – November 24, 1998) was an American urban planner and specialist in urban community development who helped seed numerous innovative initiatives and organizations throughout his career.
  • With the bulk of his professional work taking place in Chicago, Hallett began by working in church civil rights and later turned increasingly toward community economic and environmental sustainability.
  • He and colleagues together created Chicago's Center for Neighborhood Technology, South Shore Bank (later ShoreBank), Northwestern University's Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research and other institutions.
  • During his career he worked alongside numerous activists, journalists and religious leaders, including Dr.
  • Martin Luther King Jr., Saul Alinsky, George McGovern and Studs Terkel. One of the key concepts that Dr.
  • Hallett would add to urban planning was the idea that there is an 'economy of neighborhoods,' Scott Bernstein, a Hallett disciple and co-founder of the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) in Chicago, told Chicago Enterprise magazine.
  • Bernstein, who now heads CNT, said: "Most economists don't admit to an economy of cities, let alone neighborhoods.
  • Stan saw neighborhoods as a place where money flows in and out.""What's clear to anybody who worked with Stan is that he was an immensely creative and original character," John P.
  • Kretzmann told the Chicago Tribune in 1998.
  • A senior researcher at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University where Hallett was a visiting scholar, Kretzmann said, "It's so hard to categorize his work.
  • He never had what you'd call a career.
  • He bounced around from being a minister to being a banker to being a civic developer to being an inventor to being a businessman.
  • But there was a consistency to it.
  • He was always looking for ways for a city to be more humane."

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