Urban Design Course

WITH the Spring Term, which begins March 29, Dartmouth's Department of Art will introduce a new course in urban design to be taught by visiting professional planners.

Francois C. Vigier, instructor at the Harvard School of Design and a city planning consultant, has been appointed to teach the opening course as Visiting Lectuier in Art for the term.

Students in the course will design solutions to physical planning problems such as traffic circulation and parking, subdivision layout, civic or shopping center design, and urban renewal and redevelopment.

The course, an integral part of Dartmouth's interdepartmental City Planning and Urban Studies Program, is intended specifically for students planning professional study in the field. Design problems in nearby communities may be used as class projects.

Mr. Vigier has had broad experience in city planning. He has been consultant for a study of 32 communities in Boston's South Shore area, a study of landuse patterns in large cities, and for the Puerto Rico Planning Board. He has been a project planner with Candeub, Flessig & Associates, Boston and Newark, N. J., planning consultants, and designer and planner for the Boston Government Center with Adams, Howard & Greeley in Cambridge.