To research the nature of organized crime in America a major study using anthropological field work techniques was undertaken: although we focused on the patterns of blacks and Hispanic crime activists, previous research on Italian-American patterns was utilized for comparison. (Author/JM)

Discusses several topics and activities to help urban youths develop survival skills that will help them cope with urban anxieties. (GB)

The second of a two part series urging community involvement by the college press. (RB)

Special Urban Issue. Papers on Urbanizing Society distributed in 1970 by the National University Extension Association (NUEA). Copies of the total report are available from Institute for Community Development, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48823. (DS)

Article discusses the New Town movement and garden city planning and the combination of urban and rural values. (MM)

Recognizing the confines as well as the potentialities of the urban environment, science educators in some of the cities suggest various approaches to providing relevant, meaningful and challenging science programs for the urban youth. Programs in Omaha, Denver, Wilton, Oak Ridge, and Milwaukee are described. Bibliography. (LC)

Social studies courses should include a section on air pollution and its harmful effects on our physical and mental health. (CK)

The city is harsh and confusing" visually; the art teacher's job includes helping children to experience the natural world. (Author/SP)

A high school-level course utilizing a model from Constantine A. Doxiadis' study, Ekistics: The Science of Human Settlements, is discussed. The model is interdisciplinary and can be adapted for a wide variety of teaching techniques and social studies curricula. (Author/MB)

Streets in European cities have an esthetics, an urbaness and a pleasurable humaneness that their American counterparts lack. The American street will change only when our concept of the city itself has changed. (Author)

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)

Reviews progress made in the past decade to reduce levels of air pollutants in New York. Described are current monitoring and control efforts conducted by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. (WB)

Describes a proposal currently being debated for a third privately-built garden city in Britain. This "environmentally ideal" community is intended to be small in scale, decentralized, close to nature, energy efficient, and modest in technology. (Author/WB)