Author argues that housing policies geared to creating socially mixed neighborhoods could save city schools. (Editor)

This second annual report examines in depth two fundamental aspects of environmental quality: economics and legal developments. It also reviews the status of and trends in environmental quality and developments, particularly among the states, since the publication of the first annual environmental quality report. A number of environmental problems…

Explores whether innercity children in the intermediate grades expressed a greater preference for reading stories and books which depicted innercity settings or pleasant middle-class settings. (RB)

Enumerates and illustrates the frustrations involved in trying to make any real change in the inner-city school situation--frustrations inherent in the political decision-making apparatus which caused many of the problems it proposes to solve. (JS)

Business owners and managers from 10 large cities were surveyed regarding (1) perceptions of their cities' business climate; (2) plans for increasing/decreasing their work force; and (3) whether they had considered moving/closing their businesses. Results suggest that for central city business to thrive, improvement must occur in urban quality of…

Argues that unlike "white" films which range at will over the full spectrum of human possibility, "black" films have been mired in the rut of a single formula--the so-called action film which deals with marginal anti-social elements in the Northern urban ghetto; black creative input behind the scenes has been virtually nil. (Author/JM)

Excerpts from testimony before the Commission on Civil Rights in Janurary, 1970 concerning the relationship of the inner city to the suburbs and its effects on black city dwellers. (JM)

Address delivered at the annual convention of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, & Recreation (84th, Boston, April 13, 1969).

This report covers the first six months of the Los Angeles Public Library's federally funded project to extend library service to the disadvantaged. Section I covers the recruitment and training of staff members for the project, including monthly staff orientation meetings emphasizing technical and sensitivity training. Section II describes the…

The third of the Los Angeles Public Library's semi-annual reports on its federal project for the disadvantaged includes individual staff reports from the Central Region, Bookmobile Division, Lincoln Heights, Venice, The Display Artist, and a student worker. In these reports are discussions of (1) conditions and people in the communities served,…

In this six month period of the Los Angeles Public Library's project to extend service to the disadvantaged a full time public relations assistant was hired. Attempts were made to evaluate special activities and the Library Administration considered implications of the project for the Library's service program. This document includes reports from…