Cities, as centers of urban culture, have not successfully met the special needs of the urban poor or of the rural poor who have migrated to the cities. A new strategy recommends that the poor (black or white) would be in a better position to break the poverty cycle if they were able to create their own "implanted communities" outside of existing…

This is one of several module clusters developed for the Camden Teacher Corps project. This module cluster is designed to introduce students to urban studies through the application of a geographic approach. Although geography shares with other social sciences many concepts and methods, it has contributed a distinctive set of viewpoints and a…

Communication in the urban environment is complex. "Sometimes it's erroneous, sometimes it's shoddy, sometimes it just doesn't exist at all. And sometimes it exists all too much, refusing to go away..." It is clear that with increasing population and information, we need more effective communication among people. A need for better communication…

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Conservation Education Association, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, August, 1971, are reported in this booklet. Utilizing the theme - The Environmental Crisis: Root Causes and Opportunities for Solution - the program was aimed at environmental problems where we live; the urban area. It dealt with…

This study explores the occupational aspirations and expectations of some 531 black and white high school youth of both sexes from predominantly lower and lower middle socioeconomic status families in four New York State communities; Megalopolis (New York City), Middletown (Elmira), Exurbia (Patchogue), and Capitol City (Albany). Data were…

An argument is posited for dealing with urban dilemmas through the perspective of interpersonal communications. In response to the contemporary revolution in communications technology, the concept of the community is redefined to encompass all the people with whom an individual communicates, regardless of geographic location. Social and political…

The Air Pollution Control Officer's (APCO) Manual is part of a set of 21 manuals (AA 001 009-001 029) used in APEX (Air Pollution Exercise) a computerized college and professional level "real world" game simulation of a community with urban and rural problems, industrial activities, and air pollution difficulties, The first two sections, which are…

The Developer's Manual No. 7 is part of a set of 21 manuals (AA 001 009-001 029) used in APEX (Air Pollution Exercise), a computerized college and professional level "real world" game simulation of a community with urban and rural problems, industrial activities, and air pollution difficulties. The first two sections, which are the same in each of…

This study examines the relationship between the organizational structure of multi-unit community college districts and the performance of urban campuses in serving disadvantaged students. Emphasis is on the expanding functions and changing structure of urban community colleges, the relationship between district office and district colleges, and…

Books, pamphlets, periodicals, films, filmstrips, loops, recordings, and relia are catalogued in this multi-media guide on urban living. Materials are suggested which could be used effectively with inner-city young people or in explaining city problems to affluent suburban youth, pre-school through high school age. Items are evaluated for their…

New views of the city, together with new approaches for seeing the city in a positive way (not for what it lacks but rather for what it offers as an outdoor classroom), are supplied in this teacher's guide for grades five through nine. The interdisciplinary unit gives the city child an opportunity to understand ecology without ignoring the…

The objectives of this report are to briefly synthesize the communication approaches used by legislative bodies in the acquisition of scientific information, to describe the practices of the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress and the Office of Technology Assessment, to describe the present and proposed communication systems…

Described are the patterns of air pollution in certain large urban areas. Persons in poverty, in occupations below the management or professional level, in low-rent districts, and in black population are most heavily exposed to air pollution. Pollution paradoxically is largely produced by high energy consuming middle-and upper-class households.…

The urban environment creates an atmosphere of external and internal pressures which cause immeasurable stress in a blind person attempting independent travel. (Author/SB)

The urban university plays an important role in the intellectual life of the urban community. Traditional universities would do well to undertake more community-oriented tasks in order to fulfill this important role of an urban university. (Author/MC)