and Citizen Participation: 1960 –1968

The closing decade of Segoe’s professional practice reveals a decided shift toward county and smaller city planning, done more often by his associates. Of these plans, many were integrated into the larger county context, demonstrating Segoe’s concern for efficient systems responsive to proper land use patterns. The new federal highway system had begun to alter radically accessibility functions not only among regions, but also within metropolitan areas. His concerns anticipated urban sprawl. He also believed one of the responsibilities of the professional planner was to justify the plan to the community, so that in winning their consensus, citizen participation could be easily directed toward nonpartisan political support for the legislative adoption of the plan. In the 60s as well, Segoe turned his attention to the education of planners and established a lecture series in city planning at the University of Cincinnati, financed by the Alfred Bettman Foundation. It is not clear what force these lectures had in curriculum development at the University of Cincinnati, but by 1963 both undergraduate and graduate planning programs had been established. Increasingly in this time of their lives, Ladislas and Vilma mixed his professional practice with their leisure by traveling the world.