Martin Meyerson

Abstract

This article explores Martin Meyerson’s career between 1948 and 1963 at three schools of planning, the Universities of Chicago, Pennsylvania, and Harvard, in the development of a fundamentally new teaching and professional education paradigm that applied social science techniques to urban problems. Meyerson was an educational pioneer, mentor, advisor, and role model. His contributions included the creation of the modern doctoral degree program in planning. Meyerson’s training of planning educators included women who then replicated his efforts throughout the world.