This catalogue presents descriptions of innovative and noteworthy citizen participation processes in the Community Development Block Grant Program in 31 communities including 27 small, medium, and large cities, and four urban counties. Each description includes three sections: (1) a brief background on citizen participation in the community prior…

To meet the challenge of a growing urban population with more older members and more leisure time, higher adult education must concern itself with values, attitudes, and understanding as opposed to simple skills, facts, and information; and new methods for deriving objectives must be developed. Higher adult education should be liberal adult…

In this address the U.S. Commissioner of Education discusses the changing nature of the relationship of Federal, State , and local governments to education. He states that the increasing tendency of mayors, governors, and school superintendents to rely heavily on the Federal government for solutions to educational problems should be reversed. The…

The Committee for Economic Development (CED), an independent research and educational organization, has prepared this document which consists of considerations relating to Federal policy on urban areas as well as the Committee's recommendations for future Federal action. The fact that different cities face different problems is stressed. Ways in…

The papers presented in this volume represent an iterim report on the work of 50 investigators at the Research Group on Technology, Business, and the City--a part of the Harvard University program on Technology and Society. The work of the group is to investigate and structure research into the role of the business-like organization in the…

This directory of urban affairs information and research centers seeks to bring to the attention of urban researchers those organizations, agencies, and institutions which are actively involved in the eradication of current urban ills. Although most of the urban interest groups listed are research oriented, a great many are directly involved in…

This report contains an inventory of urban programs and courses offered by 11 institutions of higher education in the Washington area. Many of the programs focus on the education and cultural enrichment of the poor and provide basic education for inner-city children, and social, recreational and rehabilitation programs as well as higher education,…

Educational policy of the future must place the role of education within the broad context of societal goals. The urban slum condition will not be eliminated by individual programs which focus on special problem areas viewed in relative isolation. The Model Cities Program is a unified approach. First, neighborhoods are asked to fully analyze their…

The governance of Yale University and the relationship of this institution to urban problems in New Haven are discussed within the framework of what the distinctive nature and central mission of a university should be. The first section of the report analyzes the roles of Yale University's faculty members, administrators, and students in its…

This research document reports on the involvement of several local Protestant and Roman Catholic churches with a mass community organization in a racially changing area of Chicago. The corporate participation of churches in this social and political experiment and others of its kind has been the subject of much controversy. The research is an…

The San Francisco Consortium was formed in the Fall of 1967 by 5 institutions: City College of San Francisco, Golden Gate College, San Francisco State College, University of California-San Francisco Medical Center and the University of San Francisco. Its primary purpose is to be the instrument through which the resources of the major local…

Operator's instructions and technical support materials needed for processing the M.E.T.R.O.-APEX (Air Pollution Exercise) game decisions on an IBM 360 computer are compiled in this volume. M.E.T.R.O.-APEX is a computerized college and professional level "real world" simulation of a community with urban and rural problems, industrial…

Communication problems within an urban society are those of communication from the people to the city, communication from the city government to the people, and interpersonal interaction among the people. Communication to the city from the people has often taken the form of protests, occasionally leading to riots. The interpersonal communicator…

The Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity held hearings on quality in urban education on July 14, 1971. The lengthy testimony of various educators and professors is given. Discussion of problems peculiar to urban areas, integrated education, and school accountability are investigated. In the appendixes, newspaper articles,…

Nine reports published in this volume reflect a few of the challenges that must be faced by city dwellers in the tasks of controlling the erosion of the quality of city living and saving the urban environment from a final crisis. Reforms necessary to meet the changed conditions are discussed through the following topics: population growth and…