{"id":316,"date":"2017-04-18T20:04:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T20:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/cpla\/?page_id=316"},"modified":"2025-07-10T17:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:43:06","slug":"banfield","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/cpla\/special\/banfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward C. Banfield Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><strong>Edward C. Banfield<br \/>\n(November 19, 1916- September 30, 1999)<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Edward Banfield was an influential political scientist and conservative thinker who authored sixteen books on the structure of communities and urban environments. \u00a0He was the George D. Markham Professor of Government at Harvard University and he headed the Presidential Task Force on Model Cities under President Nixon.\u00a0 Banfield theorized in his three most influential works, <em>The Moral Basis of a Backward Society<\/em>, <em>The Unheavenly City<\/em>, and <em>The Unheavenly City Revisited<\/em>, that social capitol including the values and habits of community members have profound effects upon the community&#8217;s economic success and his ideas remain both relevant and controversial.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1960\u2019s Edward Banfield was the editor of reports on selected American cities, published by the Joint Center for Urban Studies at MIT and Harvard.\u00a0 The PLAD hosts several of these reports.\u00a0 Some reports were composed by individual professors while others were written collaboratively with graduate students.\u00a0 \u00a0The PLAD also owns some supplementary material in its collection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>PLEASE NOTE: The CPLA Special Collections are stored in closed stacks and do not circulate.\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>To access the collections, please contact Funk Library at <a href=\"mailto:aceslib@library.illinois.edu\">aceslib@library.illinois.edu<\/a>. If you are on-site, please inquire about access at the circulation desk. <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward C. Banfield (November 19, 1916- September 30, 1999) Edward Banfield was an influential political scientist and conservative thinker who authored sixteen books on the structure of communities and urban environments. \u00a0He was the George D. Markham Professor of Government at Harvard University and he headed the Presidential Task Force on Model Cities under President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"parent":207,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-316","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/cpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/cpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/cpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/cpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/cpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/cpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/cpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions\/2211"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/cpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/cpla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}