ABSTRACT
The reason Tyrwhitt traveled to Bandung Indonesia in December 1959 was to become the second Harvard faculty adviser in residence to a new School of Regional and City Planning, which opened in September 1959 as a division of Bandung Institute of Technology. The school was founded with the joint support of the UN Technical Assistance Board, Government of Indonesia, and Harvard University Department of City and Regional Planning. But the idea for the school is crystallized in the context of the transnational networks that Tyrwhitt had helped establish through her work with APRR and SPRRD, and as consultant to the UN. Tyrwhitt’s connection to the project dates to the UN Seminar on Housing and Community Improvement in Asia and the Far East in New Delhi in early 1954, where UN ECAFE formally endorsed a proposal by Professor Ir K. Hadinoto, the chief Indonesian delegate to the Seminar, to establish a planning school in Southeast Asia. The implementation of this idea in Bandung played out over the next decade against the backdrop of the cold war and decolonization.
