Household activity systems

1916 – 7 July 1974

Francis Stuart Chapin Jr. was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. from the University of Minnesota and two degrees in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the 1940s he worked as a community and regional planner with the Tennessee Valley Authority, and served as the planning director for Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1949, he became a professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina. He started a working group there called the Urban Studies Committee, which in 1963 became the Center for Urban and Regional Studies. In 1965 he became a member of President Lyndon Johnson’s Task Force on Cities. In 1969, he retired from be…