Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
Shifts 10 Suburbs
Inspire Two Realty
Lecture Courses
Cities Neiehborhoods
And Decentralization
Will Be Discussed

With its 1941 series of case study
courses in the principles and prac-
tice of real estate appraisal to be
offered at Columbia University in
New York from June 2 to % and at
Southern Methodist University in
Dallas from July to August 2, the
American Institute of Real Estate
Appraisers will present for the first
time two series of lectures, one on
the neighborhood as it plays its
part in city growth and as it affects
real estate values, the other on urban
blight, including an analysis of
factors which are bringing about
decentralization in many American
cities and ways to avoid it.
Offered also in addition to the
basic courses in Cd fundamentals
of real estate appraisal method and
(2) appraisal of income properties
will be special series of lectures on
Cd condemnation appraisal and
court testimony on the valuation of
real estate and 90 the mathe-
mates of real estate valuation.
Dates of Courses Given.
The following courses are expected
to draw coast-to-coast enrolment
not only from appraisers, but also
from real estate brokers, property
managers, builders, mortgage in
vestors, representatives of the great
institutional owners and investors
in the real estate field and municipal
tax officials.
Course I fundamentals Co.
lumbia, June 2-14, and at Southern
Methodist, July TIC.
Course II dncome property ap-
praisaD-At Columbia, June 1928,
and at Southern Methodist, July
21-August 2.
Thurston Howard Ross, Los An
geles, will give the 10 lectures in the
field of residential neighborhood
analysis. These lectures are sched-
uled at Columbia from June is to
20 and at Southern Methodist Uni
Verslty from July 81 to Is. Mr..
Ross, who is director of the Bureau
of Business Research and member
OF the faculty of the College of
Commerce of the University of
Southern California, will discuss city
growth and the nature of neighbor-
hoods, technical patterns of neigh
borhood formation and other mat
tiers of concern in the process of
neighborhood analysis as it relates
to the value of an individual prop
erty.
Suburbs Growth Weighed.
Gordon Whitnall, Los Angeles city
planner, will present for the first
time 10 lectures dealing with the
decentralization of urban communi-
ties. Mr.. Whitnall will attempt to
isolate the factors Of urban decay
and to suggest new patterns for old
cities. An organizer of the City
Planning Association and founder
and the first director-manager of
the City Planning Commission of
Los Angeles, Mr. Whitnall is an
instructor in planning at the Uni |
versity of California and maintains |
a private consulting practice in |
planning and government. The |
Whitnall lectures will be given at !
Columbia from June % to 81 and |
repeated at Southern Methodist |
from July % to August l.
George Leroy Schmutz, Los An
geles, past president Of the American |
Institute of Real Estate Appraisers
and longtime leader Of appraisal |
thought and education, will offer |
10 lectures in the mathematics of |
valuation at Columbia from June
Is to 20 and at Southern Methodist |
from July 81 to 25. Mr.. Schmutz |
was dean of the pioneer course in
real estate appraisal initiated by the
American Institute of Real Estate
Appraisers in 1885.