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PDF pending restorationUnited Nations New York, NY. Dept. of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis. – 1995
This publication concentrates on city problems and special city planning issues in the world's large cities, pinpointing their demographic characteristics, economic structure, available social services, and infrastructures, as well as current issues facing city planners. Profiles of 100 large cities across the world, from Abidjan to Yangon, make…
Descriptors: City Government, Community Characteristics, Crowding, Developed Nations
Download full textMorrison, Peter A.; And Others – 1979
This report contains the text of five briefings on research in Rand's Urban Policy Analysis program. "Brief History of Rand's Urban Policy Analysis Program," by Barbara R. Williams, discusses the changing Federal role in urban policy, problems encountered in Rand's attempt during the early 1970s to examine the central policy problems of…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Study, Economic Development, Federal Aid
House, Peter – 1970
CITY III, a computer-assisted simulation model to be used in the study of complex interactions and consequences of public and private decision-making in an urban setting, is described in this report. The users of the model, with the help of a computer, become public and private decision-makers in a simulated city and, by interacting with one…
Descriptors: City Government, Community Characteristics, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs
Hill, Roscoe, Ed.; Feeley, Malcolm, Ed. – 1968
This book contains abbreviated accounts of eight community case studies and various reviews of a cluster of recent studies relating to race and education. The foreword discusses three phases of school integration, and the introductory chapter relates law, violence, and civil rights. The eight case studies on Evanston, Berkeley, New Haven,…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Community Characteristics, Community Study, De Facto Segregation
Shaw, Clifford R.; McKay, Henry D. – 1969
A revision of a work published in 1929, the book updates data on delinquency in Chicago. Findings revealed that rates of delinquents and commitments vary consistently, low rates reflect the existence of a stable institutional structure, a high incidence of deliquency indicates a breakdown of machinery through which population needs are met, high…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Community Characteristics, Community Problems, Community Surveys
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1982
This report presents the findings of research and public hearings on the development of racial isolation in Miami, Florida. Maintaining that Miami's black community is isolated from the city as a whole, and that the sense of black isolation and frustration precipitated the civil disturbances in Miami in May of 1980, the report examines the causes…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Black Community, Blacks, Community Characteristics
