This report draws a clear if disturbing picture of the children of Resurrection City, the nature of their family life, and their behavior under duress in the confusion of Resurrection City. The authors worked with the City's 157 children for four weeks. Also included is a discussion of some of the broader implications of this work by a white child…

This book opens with a review of the past decade, marked as it was by steadily escalating civil disorders despite the unprecedented progressive programs that grew out of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. It traces the rise of black pride and white resistance and clearly delineates the critical and continuing lag in national response to urban needs.…

The Computer Operator's 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 information in the manual is sufficiently basic…

This newsletter focuses primarily on the educational facility building systems of Boston and Detroit, and incorporates a brief progress report on the Montreal building project. In addition, the results of ten years of involvement by Educational Facilities Laboratories in exploring the feasibility of developing and applying building systems for…

This paper briefly discusses three studies aimed at exploring the overload hypothesis posited by Stanley Milgram. That hypothesis suggests that impoverished social interaction in the city is an adaptation to overload of interpersonal contacts. The three studies examine various aspects of the phenomenon using different methodologies. Comparing city…

Reviews the politics of school finance reform during the early- and mid-seventies, and suggests possible future developments in the years ahead. (PKP)

This article provides a broad view of the problems of metropolitan area schools and society, with emphasis on problems associated with the growth of racial and socioeconomic segregation in some parts of the metropolitan area. (Author)

The problems of cities influence the amount of state aid which is given. More aid is allocated in states with needier cities. Reformist political climates have also helped to gain state allotments for distressed cities. The record of states in this matter is better than that of the federal government. (VM)

In 1982, the Boston Compact attempted to tackle student dropout employment problems. This paper reviews the process of this agreement made by local leaders, traces the creation of a communitywide plan to respond to Boston's school dropout problem, and summarizes Boston's Draft Dropout Prevention Reentry plan. (Author/LHW)

Although racial discrimination contributes to increasing urban social dislocation, problems such as massive joblessness, the influx of migrants to cities, and demographic shifts underlie the current crisis. Change will only come about through public policies that benefit all the poor, not just poor minorities. (Author/GC)

Public art has contributed a great deal to urban environments. Part of the credit for the acceptance of this art by the public must go to art education. However, problems with urban vandalism remain critical. (IS)

Presented is a three-week independent study unit in which secondary students analyze present urban conditions and then create their own images of the city of the future. (RM)

Discusses the effect of an urban environment on the mental health of the individuals who exist in that environment. (HMV)

This report, fourth in a series, recounts the most recent data on indicators of the social and economic vitality of U.S. cities and positions the Administration's urban policy agenda to address challenges confronting cities. This year the report identifies four megaforces that are shaping the future of U.S. cities and presents findings showing…

Although by no means universally so, urban graffiti is commonly regarded as vandalism. It costs authorities in Australia hundreds of thousands of dollars to remove each year, and it offends many adults as callow effusions of the territorial markings of "human tomcats." Authorities are mounting campaigns to catch the offenders in the act…