Deplores the fact that California spends 15 million dollars a year for driver's education but next to nothing for environmental education, and discusses proposed programs in survival training for teachers and students. (Author/EA)

Looks at the environment and finds past man-made endeavors insufficient to produce better surroundings for individuals to learn, work, and play. Discusses exceptions that prove man can, in cooperation with the natural environment, design and build a better total living environment. (Author)

Describes recently developed instructional materials for teaching environmental issues in schools. (Author)

Evaluates and provides information about books and films that publishers consider useful for teaching children about the urban environment and the problems of maintaining a satisfactory ecological condition within that environment. (Author)

An innovative program for teaching music in urban areas is presented. (CK)

Makes a general survey of the urban environment and its relationship to the public library. Presents arguments against the decentralization of public library services. Suggests that the public library reach the young through contributions to school library collections. (RM)

This study uses the town of Roorkee (Uttar Pradesh, India) as a model in an attempt to understand the precise nature of the dynamics of urban growth and its impact on the environment. A computer package is used to identify and forecast development-related trends, and environmental impacts are analyzed. (LZ)

Presents case consultation in which consultants respond to issues of urban planning for mass transit (subway) system and how to maximize prevention of intentional injury within subway stations. Also asks what type of research study should be used and what type of data collected once system is operating. Case is discussed by Morton M. Silverman and…

This paper considers the implications of current notions of the learning city. It argues that popular neoliberal ideologies create an environment in which lifelong learners strive for the learning city as an end product, both in production and for consumption, rather than embrace it as a living, social context. The rhetoric of the knowledge…

This article reports findings from a qualitative study of preservice teachers' beliefs about the contexts of urban teaching. Participants were in their first semester of a K-6 licensure program designed to prepare them for urban teaching. Interviews and email reflective journal exchanges with the researcher were the data of the study, and…

Researchers from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University prepared a case study of CODES (Community Outreach and Development Efforts Save). CODES is a coalition of 35 people and organizations in northern Manhattan committed to promoting safe streets, parks and schools. The case study analyzed the factors that prompted CODES'…

African American communities are disproportionately subjected to large amounts of environmental pollution and environmental hazards. However, little is known about their environmental concerns, understandings, and values. In the study reported in this paper, 24 African American parents from Houston, Texas were interviewed on their perspectives…