Background/Context: The educational fate of the children of low-wage immigrants is a salient issue in all the economically developed societies that have received major immigration flows since the 1950s. The article considers the way in which educational systems in the two countries structure the educational experiences and shape the opportunities…

The tabular data in this report on New York City's Puerto Rican population and households comes from the 1980 Census. It is noted that all data in the report must be considered preliminary pending the final outcome of litigation over a possible population undercount. Population information is provided by age, sex, and marital status. Household…

Author made a statement of conventional wisdom concerning land use objectives. (Author/RK)

Japanese Americans have attained a remarkable degree of assimilation, especially on the part of the Sansei, the second American-born generation. In a sample of Sansei studied, three in four report having at least one non-Japanese friend; only 24 percent adhere to Buddhism (as compared to 37 percent among the Nisei, the first American-born…

Presents statistics, broken down by race and ethnic origin, on home ownership, housing costs, mortgage holders, and rent in the United States. (KH)

Surveys the Black family's position vis-a-vis housing, in terms of "no-children" policies, home ownership, and fair-housing and equal opportunity laws in practice. Argues that the future looks no more promising than the present and that Blacks must mobilize to preserve their neighborhoods. (CMG)

The Maryland Higher Education Commission has prepared a set of reports containing information about Maryland colleges and universities attended by residents of the state. There are separate reports for the entire state and for each of the 12 "service delivery" areas (counties or groups of counties). This report contains data for the…

The urban housetype and attitudes towards the urban housetype are used to illustrate the concentric zone model and to shed some light on such zonal concepts as the inner city and suburban ring. (Author)

The analysis suggests that for both males and females moving, whether voluntary or involuntary, decreases formal organizational participation, has little effect upon informal social relations either within or outside the neighborhood of residence, relatively small impact upon how respondents perceive their neighbors, and little effect upon the…

As a result of a survey to discover the rationale for student preference for off-campus living the following factors were indicated most often as reasons given for moving from the residence hall: (1) better study conditions; (2) expense; (3) freedom from control; and (4) new experiences. (JC)

The processes of the formation of human settlements indicate inevitable growth into continuous interconnected networks. (Author)

A study conducted in the late 1950s in Israel examined the optimal mix of ethnic groups in housing for maximum resident satisfaction. This follow-up study reports that similarity of ethnic background is not related to neighborhood success. (RLV)

Discusses the factors influencing the recent increase in school segregation based on findings of recent study by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. Resegregation factors include changes in residential patterns, public-school choice, and Supreme Court decisions such as "Freeman v Pitts" (1992) and "Missouri v…