Rebuilding American Cities: An Overview

Robert C. Weaver, the first Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development created in 1966, has had long experience in government service. Beginning as a special adviser to the Department of the Interior in 1933, he served on several World War II boards, in New York state and city posts, and as Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency for the federal government. Mr. Weaver has been a visiting professor at Columbia University Teachers College and at New York University School of Education. The most recent of his several books is Dilemmas of Urban America (New York: Atheneum, 1967).