The Welikeia project and the corresponding free online tool Visionmaker. NYC focus on the historical landscape ecologies of New York City. This article provides a brief introduction to online participatory tools, describes the Visionmaker tool in detail, and offers suggested ways to use the tool for Extension professionals based in and outside New…

The authors describe the city farm movement in Great Britain. This movement promotes the redevelopment of urban waste areas as working farms and community gardens. (CH)

Providing the chief example of a successful adult education movement in the United States, the Cooperative Extension Service has demonstrated the capacity to adjust its programs to meet changing rural and urban needs. The roughly 3000 local offices provide people with ready access to a staff who are backed up by the land-grant university based…

The College of New Rochelle's School of New Resources is described including: adult participation in decision making (selection and development of courses, faculty recruitment, and courses and programs evaluation), and descriptions of extension centers and campuses (AFSCME-AFL/CIO, Co-op City, South Bronx, New York Theological Seminary, and…

The College Educational Opportunities Program (CEOP) is a feature of the Black Studies Community Extension Center, located in an inner-city area of Columbus, Ohio, conducted through The Ohio State University (OSU). It provides disadvantaged adults with an opportunity to take fully accredited basic courses in mathematics, English, black studies and…

Plans for the implementation of programs and services at Cuyahoga Community College's Center for Urban-Metropolitan Development are presented for fiscal year (FY) 1980. After introductory material outlining the history of the Center's development since its inception in 1978, the report enumerates the data sources and quantitative and subjective…

The problems of industry, government, and life in the modern industrial and commercial city are numerous, large, and complex. For their solution a larger amount of scientific knowledge and higher standards of intelligence among citizens are needed. All the city's agencies for good and progress need to be united and vitalized for more effective…

This bulletin contains the first data upon after-class activities in American public schools gathered under the new school-extension record system of the United States Bureau of Education. The tabulations presented in this paper are based upon the returns made to the Bureau of Education on its school extension blanks for the scholastic year ended…

This report is not a complete survey of educational extension in the United States. The limitations of time, space, and cost forestall a complete detailed statistical review of the work of the past biennium. A full account in detail would require visits to every Commonwealth, a very large expenditure of time and money, and a report of several…