The Peter Batchelor Papers, 1967-2010, contain correspondence, administrative papers, urban design studies, computer printouts, doctoral papers, graphic materials, and industry publications relating to Batchelor's career as a professional urban planner and his administration of the American Institute of Architects, North Carolina’s (AIANC) Urban Design Assistance Program. Also included are VHS tapes of his lectures and exhibition materials created by students documenting Batchelor's time as a professor of design and urban planning at North Carolina State University.
Born in London, England, on May 22, 1934, and died on April 15, 2020, Peter Batchelor earned a Bachelor of Architecture (honors) from the University of British Columbia in 1960, Masters of Architecture and City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, and a Doctorate in City Planning from the latter institution in 1972. He taught at North Carolina State University’s School of Architecture from 1968 until 2007, when he retired as Professor Emeritus. Batchelor is also a licensed practitioner in architecture and city planning and former director of the American Institute of Architects, North Carolina (AIANC) Urban Design Assistance Program which provides interdisciplinary problem-solving teams to communities. Batchelor is a Fellow in both the American Institute of Architects and the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Born in London, England, on May 22, 1934, and died on April 15, 2020, Peter Batchelor earned a Bachelor of Architecture (honors) from the University of British Columbia in 1960, Masters of Architecture and City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, and a Doctorate in City Planning from the latter institution in 1972. He began teaching at the North Carolina State University School of Architecture in 1968. As a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design he taught Anatomy of the City, an analysis of the principles underlying urban development; The Urban House, an integral element of urban form; and graduate urban design studios. His research interests included computer visualization and simulation of urban growth, typological studies of urban housing, and interactive community decision-making.
Batchelor is a licensed practitioner in architecture and city planning and former director of the American Institute of Architects, North Carolina (AIANC) Urban Design Assistance Program which provides interdisciplinary problem-solving teams to communities. Professor Batchelor won more than 35 honors and awards for academic achievement, architectural design, drawing, communication, urban and regional planning and has written over 50 refereed articles in journals and technical reports. He also co-authored two books.
He has practiced urban design in three countries since 1963. Batchelor is a Fellow in both the American Institute of Architects and the American Institute of Certified Planners. He has chaired major national AIA committees and edited Urban Design Case Studies, and he was granted the status of Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design from the North Carolina State University’s Board of Trustees. Professor Batchelor retired in February 2007.
The Peter Batchelor Papers contain correspondence, administrative papers, urban design studies, computer printouts, doctoral papers, graphic materials, and industry publications relating to Batchelor's career as a professional urban planner. Also included are lectures and exhibition materials created by students documenting Batchelor's time as a professor at North Carolina State University.
This collection is arranaged into four series: Urban Design Assistance Program Records, Faculty Papers, Project Interact, Urban Casebooks
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[Identification of item], Peter Batchelor Papers, MC 00157, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Donated by Peter Batchelor, 2007 (Accession numbers 2007-0203, 2007-0214, and 2007-0239), 2008 (Accession number 2008-0181), and 2009 (Accession number 2009-0054), 2017 (Accession number 2017.0116), donated by Ian Batchelor 2020 (Accession number 2020.0101).
Processed by Keith Taylor, Michael Watts, and Todd Kosmerick, 2007; machine readable finding aid created by Todd Kosmerick, April 2009 and Tish Wiggs, August 2011. Finding aid updated by Gwynn Thayer May 2007; Finding aid updated with addition to the collection by Cathy Dorin-Black, Shima Hosseininasab, and Hannah Chapman, 2020 November; addition processed and finding aid updated by Shima Hosseininasab, 2022 July.
This collection was processed with support from the Council on Library and Information Resources Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program.
The collection is organized into four principal series:
Series consists of the records of largely from North Carolina’s Urban Design Assistance Program (UDAP), piloted by Peter Batchelor. The program’s expressed mission was “To provide professional assistance to North Carolina’s communities in the planning and management of the physical environment, and to identify methods of resolving problems of anticipated future growth.” A small number of files are from the American Institute of Architects' national UDAP program and highlight cities outside of North Carolina.
Files are arranged alphabetically by city.
VHS tape.
A student publication of the School of Design, North Carolina State University.
The Faculty Papers series consists of one carton of Peter Batchelor's lectures from the Fall 1994 class ARC 570: Anatomy of a City and nine cartons containing exhibit panels created by his students in that class between 1983 and 2007. The lectures are preserved on 31 VHS tapes. The exhibits, executed on foam core, use multiple panels each to explain the history and development of various cities throughout the world. An additional item was added in 2017; Historical Mapping of Raleigh, UD 520, 1971. The materials added in 2020 are in archival boxes and contain papers from the Anatomy of a City lectures, and the Urban House project and personal, and professional history.
VHS tapes are in one carton together, roughly in chronological order. Student presentations are organized alphabetically by city name.
Thirty-one VHS tapes, each a recording of a lecture presented by Professor Peter Batchelor to student in ARC 570 "Anatomy of a City," a class offered at N.C. State during the Fall of 1994. Each presenation is approximately 45 to 50 minutes in length.
1 carton
Bound collection of essays "written in partial fulfillment of the course requirements for Doctoral candidates in City Planning at the University of Pennsylvania."
Series composed of large-scale computer printouts, documenting urban and rural planning trends from 1966 to 1974. Computer models were designed by Peter Batchelor and his students at North Carolina State University.
General Notes at the file level reflect metadata collected from the front of each printout.
Printouts are named and grouped according to titles handwritten on their spines.
Program CRK3. First resoultion model (lowest score identifies winner). Designed by C. Tessier.
Program GRID. Compiled from deack provided by Tim Hoke.
Four total data sets: 1. December 1970. Data set PCIT. This is a tabular print-out of hte hypothetical data for Piedmont City (data used to test GRID program). 2. January 1971. Listing using editor program of set created for maps in VIW4. "Data Set RAL1" 3. 23 December 1970. Data Set RAL2. Ran as RLED. 4. 10 December 1970. Data Set RAL2. This is a tabular print-out of the growth of residences in Raleigh area from 1960 to 1969.
Project SILECT. Physical and economic site selection program for architectural feasibility studies. Compiled and ran by Jim Branden.
Collection of four total printouts: 1. August 1972. Raleigh metropolitan area data bank data set - Ral 1 - mapped in single character form in 6'10 proportion. 2. August 1972. Models A to E mapped in full size 1/2" to 1/2" grid cell form. 3. August 1972. Models A to E mapped in single character form in 6'10 proportion. 4. September 1972. JCL for workshop models A1, B1, C1, D1, E1, and carbon copy print in 6:10 proportion.
After review, access to the digital copies may be provided for use in the SCRC Reading Room upon request.
The Special Collections Research Center, NC State University Libraries, has digital copies of some or all of these materials.
Collection of three printouts: 1. Program CRK21. Seven land allocation models and listing of actor's preferences. Based on studio work for Fall 1974. Program ran December 1974. 2. Program CRK32. Project interact workshop December 4-5, 1974. Resolution model weighed by actor's representatives. Program ran December 5, 1974. 3. Program CRK22. Project interact workshop December 4-5, 1974. Seven land allocation models and listing of actor's preferences. Program ran December 5, 1974.
Collection of 14 printouts: 1. Fortrain IV problems: exercises in the use of Fortran IV at the University of Pennsylvania, 1966-1967 2. Sympa program: control package for map of Chicago (ran: 1968, Univ. Pa.) 3. Symap program: map of Raleigh based on grid cell system data. Ran May 1969. 4. Grid program: map produced using computations on basic data. Ran December 1967. 5. UIW4 title block: as used in UIW4 studio 1970-1971. Created by Jay Pearce, assited by Tim Hoke, Marian Scott (October 1970). 6. Program conversion program #1: takes several 80 card decks with 80 integers per card and converts it into 6400 card deck partially filled with integers. October 1970. 7. Program conversion program #2. 8. Program SSQ2. Dev. December 1966; rerun December 1970. 9. Program SSQ1. Dev. December 1966; rerun December 1970. 10. Load program RALIN. December 1970. 11. Program AVD. July 1972. (P. Batchelor) 12. Load program PCIT. December 1970. 13. Control program SMPS1. April to December 1970. 14. MPS 360 linear program package. April 1971.
"Urban Casebooks" was a series of 24 articles written by Peter Batchelor appearing from 1986-1989 in the "Leader", a Research Triangle Park news magazine. Included here are notes, photographs, drafts, and research, all relating to the completed articles. Copies of the "Leader" are also included with most of the casebooks.
Organized chronologically by casebook number.
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[Identification of item], Peter Batchelor Papers, MC 00157, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.