Facts: - birth date: 6 october 1930 - name: stanley james hallett - birth place: new hampton , iowa , - religion: methodist - alma mater: dakota seminary wesleyan university boston university harvard university garrett-evangelical theological Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of stanley hallett .
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stanley james hallett -lrb- october 6 , 1930 -- november 24 , 1998 -rrb- was an american urban planner and specialist in urban community development who helped seed numerous innovative initiatives and organizations throughout his career .with the bulk of his professional work taking place in chicago , hallett began by working in church civil rights and later turned increasingly toward community economic and environmental sustainability .he and colleagues together created chicago 's center for neighborhood technology , south shore bank -lrb- later shorebank -rrb- , northwestern university 's center for urban affairs and policy research and other institutions .during his career he worked alongside numerous activists , journalists and religious leaders , including dr. martin luther king jr. , saul alinsky , george mcgovern and studs terkel .one of the key concepts that dr. hallett would add to urban planning was the idea that there is an ' economy of neighborhoods , ' scott bernstein , a hallett disciple and co-founder of the center for neighborhood technology -lrb- cnt -rrb- in chicago , told chicago enterprise magazine .bernstein , who now heads cnt , said : '' most economists do n't admit to an economy of cities , let alone neighborhoods .stan saw neighborhoods as a place where money flows in and out . '''' what 's clear to anybody who worked with stan is that he was an immensely creative and original character , '' john p. kretzmann told the '' chicago tribune '' in 1998 .a senior researcher at the institute for policy research at northwestern university where hallett was a visiting scholar , kretzmann said , '' it 's so hard to categorize his work .he never had what you 'd call a career .he bounced around from being a minister to being a banker to being a civic developer to being an inventor to being a businessman .but there was a consistency to it .he was always looking for ways for a city to be more humane . ''