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name: Melville C. Branch
about: An educator, author and urban planner who taught at USC for many years and served on the Los Angeles Planning Commission through the 1960s, died Feb. 11. He was 94.Branch died of complications from heart disease at his home in Pacific Palisades, his wife, Dr. Hilda Rollman-Branch, said.A pioneer in his field, Branch was the first graduate student to earn a doctoral degree in regional planning at Harvard University, in 1949.His theory on how to solve urban growth problems included a view from above. One of Branch's first books was "Aerial Photography in Urban Planning and Research," published in 1948. "Now aerial photography is commonplace in planning," Sloane said.In 1950, he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked for eight years in the plan An educator, author and urban planner who taught at USC for many years and served on the Los Angeles Planning Commission through the 1960s, died Feb. 11. He was 94.Branch died of complications from heart disease at his home in Pacific Palisades, his wife, Dr. Hilda Rollman-Branch, said.A pioneer in his field, Branch was the first graduate student to earn a doctoral degree in regional planning at Harvard University, in 1949.His theory on how to solve urban growth problems included a view from above. One of Branch's first books was "Aerial Photography in Urban Planning and Research," published in 1948. "Now aerial photography is commonplace in planning," Sloane said.In 1950, he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked for eight years in the planning department at TRW, the corporate conglomerate known for technology-related products for the automotive, defense and aerospace industries.He then taught at UCLA before joining the faculty at USC in 1966.Melville Campbell Branch was born Feb. 16, 1913, in Richmond, Va.He graduated from Princeton University and earned a master of fine arts degree at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in France in 1934. ...more
death_date: 1994-02-11 00:00:00