As communities expand into rural areas, wildlife habitats dwindle, human interactions with wildlife increase, and the need for sound urban wildlife management becomes more critical. Only through improved cooperation and coordination between urban planners and wildlife managers can successful urban wildlife management occur. (Author/MH)

Specific suggestions are offered for introducing the urban child to units on the biology of man, including characteristics of plants and animals and their relationship to man. (LBH)

Describes a school-based project which attempts to break down the barriers between art, design and environmental education. (Editor/RK)

Historic preservation at Goucher is nominally designed to train students in techniques of maintaining the physical fabric of the past, to prepare them for graduate studies, and for careers as urban planners, historical archivists, and neighborhood preservationists. The success of the program is described. (Author/LBH)

One instructor's "dead zone" (her windowless classroom in the depths of the Humanities building) was the place where little exchange between teacher and students took place. When one day she overheard the students talking about how little money they had left on their meal cards, she took a few dozen bagels to that afternoon's writing…

Rurality has often been equated as to being backwards and non-promising to provide for a bright future. This study aims to identify the levels of self-concept, family concept, and family interaction measures of subjects from the rural and urban social settings of a state in Malaysia. Six hundred and thirty-nine (or two hundred and thirteen…

Presents a preliminary position paper drafted by the National Science Teachers Association Committee on Teaching Science to Urban Youth. Addresses the question of how inner-city youth can be helped to grasp the spirit of science and its meaning for their lives as individuals and community members. (JR)

Argues that in spite of the good intentions of the proposed Better Communities Act, many projects will face less funding, increased roles for State and county governments; and fewer incentives for local political systems to take on poverty, discrimination, and inequities in access to decent housing, education, and other services. Suggests…

Students in Brooklyn, New York study pollution in terms of their school, home, and neighborhood environments, and a superteacher in a traveling classroom explores urban environment problems with kids in Austin, Texas. (Author)

This study, which views cooperation in the larger context of cultural adaptation, explores the cooperative'' networks in an urban Afro-American community to discover to what extent cooperation and solidarity'' represent survival necessities'' for a community. (JM)

Special Urban Issue. Discusses trends and factors involved in urban crises. Cites interrelationships between urban and rural areas, and urges comprehensive planning in urban projects. (DS)

Describes inner city practicum program. (EK)

Presents results of a science clubs' investigation of the micro-meteorology of a shopping center, particularly temperature and precipitation effects related to automobile air pollution. (AL)