Center for Urban Environmental Studies (CUES) Records
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Abstract
The Center for Urban Environmental Studies (CUES) was an interdisciplinary program established at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now NYU-Poly) in 1967. In the 1970s, there were plans for CUES to construct a Fire Research Center in the Jay Street Firehouse. These records contain correspondence, receipts, brochures, newsletters, and articles.
Biographical / Historical
The Center for Urban Environmental Studies (CUES) was established at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now NYU-Poly) in 1967. The program, which drew from many departments within the university, aimed to pool resources and expand interdisciplinary research. As such, CUES covered diverse topics such as transportation systems, pollution control in air, water, and waste, urban planning, building codes, biomedical engineering, flood control, urban sociology, and fire safety. These research projects were sponsored by government, industry, and private funding.
Directors of program included John G. Duba (then department head of Civil Engineering) and Paul R. DeCicco. DeCicco was the guiding force behind the attempt to convert the historic Jay Street Firehouse into a Fire Research Center for CUES.
CUES has not been listed in the Polytechnic course catalog since 1981.
Sources: Center for Urban Studies brochure, circa 1970 Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn course catalogs, 1967-1983
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The collection is arranged into one series of records. Within the series, items are arranged by format.
Scope and Contents
The CUES records contain departmental correspondence and receipts mostly in regards to printing promotional materials and brochures. These brochures are included in the collection as well as the CUES News newsletter and articles about CUES programs, especially joint initiatives with the New York Fire Department.
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Conditions Governing Access
Open for research without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish materials must be obtained from:
Poly Archives & Special Collections Bern Dibner Library of Science and Technology 5 MetroTech Center Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: (718) 260-3943 Fax: (718) 260-3756 E-mail: archives@library.poly.edu
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Center for Urban Environmental Studies (CUES) Records; RG 017; box number; folder number or item identifier; Poly Archives at Bern Dibner Library of Science and Technology, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Materials found in collection; there is no documentation concerning the provenance of these materials.