Vigier Named to Head Urban Studies Center

Francois C. Vigier, associate professor of City Planning and Urban Design, has been appointed director of the Center for Urban Studies in Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

Vigier, who has been at Harvard since 1960, is currently executive vice-president of Nash-Vigier Planning Consultants in Cambridge.

The Harvard Center for Urban Studies provides facilities and financial support for research done in the School of Design.

It has no connection with the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, now directed by Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Education and Urban Politics, which sponsors research into urban policy issues in this country and abroad.