Reprinted from the Fall 1968 issue of "Daedalus.

Discusses how the proposed urban enterprise zones would solve problems of inner-city areas. The zones are designed to provide tax incentives which would attract new businesses to the inner city, create new jobs, and revitalize urban centers. (AM)

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)

This paper describes an education project to train religious leaders in Cleveland's inner city to become community advocates and change agents. Includes results of a followup survey of participants indicating how their acquired skills are benefitting the community. (SK)

Describes a succession of government initiatives that challenge many metropolitan district and London borough library authorities to take advantage of increasing urban aid to tackle inner city problems relating to education, employment, and culture. An examination of the Inner Urban Areas Act of 1978 details the implementation of such initiative.…

Argues that the problems of underclass neighborhoods are essentially crime problems, not connected with neoconservative theories about the "culture of poverty" or liberal theories about social and economic change. Cites examples of communities that have developed successful anti-crime programs. (FMW)

Existing literature on drug dealing and inner-city adolescents was reviewed. Around one in six urban adolescents has had some involvement with drug dealing, with rates higher for African-American males males over age 16. For inner-city teenagers, there are many problems associated with drug dealing, and few efforts to prevent it. (SLD)

Current teacher training models and educational research perpetuate apathy toward social problems. An alternative model is needed that emphasizes the realities of urban life. (ST)

Examines how the minority drug problem is framed in terms of anomie and underclass models suggesting that drug subcultures in urban black areas are formed as an adaptation to aggregate community conditions. The article considers how researchers use ecological and ethnographic data to back up claims that drug subcultures are a response to inner…

The Cleveland Inner City Project has recently developed a nutrition and dietary component in an attempt to combat conditions leading to poor health and related impairments among inner city residents. (DM)

Article describes the problems that student teachers encounter when entering the urban educational field and how they are able to cope with these problems. (ML)

Argues that the major problem of the core areas of our cities is their lack of economic value: community control is an issue only because nothing more worth fighting about remains. (JM)

A working coalition between environmentalists and the civil rights movement offers opportunities for cooperation in issues of pollution control, energy conservation, and sound economic development. (RE)