In the mid-1950s, the City of Cape Town was part of a wider area demarcated as a Coloured Labour Preference Area. The free movement of African people into the city was strictly controlled and the residential areas were segregated along racial lines. In terms of Apartheid's grand design, an area designated Mitchell's Plain was demarcated for…

As Professor Michael Bamidele Adeyemi of the University of Botswana suggests, "Americans believe that Africa is a country, that Africa is "still uncivilized," that the average African is polygamous, and that Africa is not urbanized." In fact, the African continent encompasses a diverse set of more than 50 nations, each made up…

Hypotheses regarding the relationship between "enforced" marriage and church affiliation, degree of urbanization and level of education are tested with data from the Netherlands pertaining to the periods 1959-1961 and 1969-1971. Differences between the first and the second time period are attributed to sexual permissiveness during the last decade.…

This report discusses the findings of an informal survey which examined variations from community to community in the perceptions of problems between Hawaiian-American students and the public schools. School personnel and community residents were interviewed throughout the State of Hawaii and numerous classrooms were observed. The results of this…

The author suggests that the U.S.A.'s population problem is not a problem in Malthusian terms, where people suffer from famine and pestilence. Instead it is a problem of quality and safety in our physical and social surroundings. Further population increase may increase the discords in our social environment caused by race prejudice, poverty, drug…

Regional Research Project NE-47 is producing a series of studies dealing with the determinants and consequences of various population trends and changes in Connecticut and the Northeast. One of the overall objectives of this project was specified as the development, at the regional level, of a set of economic, social, and demographic data to…

The purpose of this article is to present information about a key tradition of urban enterprise strongly influenced by the ethnic affiliation and identity of men engaged in it. (Author)

Suggests that theoretical expositions of adolescence have completely ignored the differential effects of industrialization on males and females and have utilized a single explanation for both sexes. (Author/AM)

In the development of a child's worldview, advises looking toward a preservation of some old with the new. Cites children's books by Virginia Lee Burton, especially her classic THE LITTLE HOUSE which won the 1943 Caldecott Medal. (Author/RWB)

A Canadian project that concentrates on the development of curriculum materials and teaching strategies related to the growth of the cities and the problems of urbanization is described. (DB)

Class and age differences in type of leisure activity are disappearing; but level of participation increases with such programs as workers' education to encourage cultural involvement. (MF)

Students collect data for long-term study of effect of urban development on stream characteristics. (AL)

Phrenology provided a means of screening job applicants during the wave of urban immigration of the 1850s. (RA)