Richard Louis Meier

Background

Meier, Richard Louis was born on May 16, 1920 in Kendallville, Indiana, United States. Son of Walter A. and Mary (Lottman) Meier.

Education

Student, Northern Illinois State Teachers College, 1936-1939; Bachelor of Science, University of Illinois, 1940; Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1942; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1944.

Career

With, California Research Corporation, 1943-1947; executive secretary, Federation American Sciences, 1947-1948; with, Petrocarbon, Ltd., 1949-1950; Fulbright scholar, Manchester U., England, 1949-1950; assistant professor program of education and research in planning, University of Chicago, 1950-1956; research social scientist, Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1957; associate professor conservation, Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, 1960-1965; professor, Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, 1965-1967; professor environmental design, University of California, Berkeley, 1967-1990; professor emeritus, University of California, since 1990. Visiting lecturer Harvard University, 1959-1960. Visiting professor Graduate School Ekistics, Athens, 1962, University of California, Berkeley, 1966.

Consultant on social planning and resources planning Joint Center for Urban Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, in Venezuela, 1963-1965.

Achievements

• Richard Louis Meier has been listed as a notable futurist, planner, behavioral scientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Developmental Planning

    (Great developmental planning book!)

  • The theory of urban growth in a communications perspective;: A preliminary draft,
  • Urban Futures Observed: In the Asian Third World (Pergamon policy studies on international development)

Membership

Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Planning Association, American Chemical Society, Society for General Systems Research, Federation American Sciences, Holis-Society for Sustainable Future.

Connections

Married Gitta Unger, May 20, 1944 (deceased). Children: Karen Reeds, Andrea Meier Whitmore, Alan. Married Robin Standish, April 21, 1992.

Father:

Walter A. Meier

Mother:

Mary (Lottman) Meier

Spouse:

Robin Standish

Spouse:

Gitta Unger

child:

Alan Meier

child:

Karen Reeds Meier

child:

Andrea Meier Whitmore Meier