The Mystery Tour is a multi-sensory approach to the man-made environment. It is designed to acquaint children with historical significance of buildings and architecture and thus prepare them to participate in decisions concerning historical preservation. Developed through a grant from the national Endowment for the Arts, the Mystery Tour guides…

The Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity held hearings on the quality and control of urban schools (Summer, 1971). The testimony of the various witnesses is recorded. Among the witnesses are professors of education, community leaders, and administrators of urban schools. The appendix includes material submitted by the witnesses…

Described is the staff training program at an early childhood diagnostic and training center for aurally handicapped children in an inner city setting. Focused upon is the community training in which a new staff member learns about the life style in inner city neighborhoods before beginning to work with parents or children. A community knowledge…

Edited transcripts of presentations made at a conference sponsored by the University of Wisconsin--Green Bay are arranged in five sections: (1) "Mass Production, Mass Consumption, Mass Waste;" (2) "Man Versus Nature;" (3) "The Urban Social Environment: Problems of Affluence, Membership, and Security;" (4) "Institutional Response to Technological…

The need to think on a global basis and act at the local level are stressed. (MR)

Shopping centres can offer many educational surprises to both students and teachers. A shopping centre study can provide the students with an opportunity to increase their understanding of the role played by these centres in their community. (NQ)

James Baldwin's special sense of his blackness enables him to combine Walt Whitman's awareness of urban wandering and Henry James' self-conscious cosmopolitanism in his books, particularly "Go Tell It on the Mountain." (BJV)

Described is a project that involved a junior high school art class in studying architecture and city planning and in making images of a city with paper cutouts on a bulletin board. (RM)

Analyzes the differences in social support available to a sample of 91 married and 183 nonmarried Black females residing in a metropolitan area. Results indicate that having a spouse has little influence on the number of socially supportive relationships or the most important sources of assistance with financial problems. (Author/ABB)

Examined environmental determinants of neighborhood satisfaction among urban elderly men (N=100). Safety emerged as the major determinant, but its impact on neighborhood satisfaction was lessened when considered in conjunction with housing satisfaction. Urban planners should assign priority to the development of neighborhoods which foster a sense…

Examines some of the latest initiatives for improving environmental education. (Editor)

A module itemizing behavioral objectives and activities for a nine-day introduction on how to select an apartment and how to take advantages of the variations offered by a city is presented to assist young people in the transition from rural to urban living. (AG)

Author discusses urban education as a code word representing commitments to change, to reform, and most important to social justice. (GB)

Discusses the causes and problems associated with increasing levels of noise pollution in urban societies. Particular attention is given to noise emanating from aircraft and to possible means of reducing this problem and its resulting psychological stress and social strain. (JR)