The best way to define geography is to think of it as the study of processes as they operate over space and in place. The evolution of this definition is discussed, and examples of the way in which geographers have studied social change in U.S. cities are provided. (RM)

This article evaluates a project with an inquiry-based methodology in which high school students experience and attempt to solve the same type of urban problems faced by professional geographers. (SM)

This article evaluates law instruction materials that can be combined in an interdisciplinary way in the hope that secondary students will be thoroughtly familiar with the law and, therefore, resist injustice. By using an inquiry approach into case studies students delve into controversial social problems that exist in urban America. (SM)

Neighborhood construction, new towns, and urban counterpulls are promising concepts to control haphazard urban growth, in its Phase III since the Industrial Revolution. Developing nations are facing all three phases simultaneously. Concern for the environment may lead us away from the historically conditioned separation of social costs from…

Two high school students recommend revision of the economics component of the social studies curriculum to include study of income tax preparation, consumer fraud, investment practices, labor economics, and urban problems. (Author/DB)

The two programs examined concentrate on developing junior high school slow learners' affective behavior through a discussion strategy. The Americans helps students to understand contemporary society within the broad context of American historical development. Living in Urban America, a multidisciplinary program, examines various aspects of urban…

Presents a lesson that focuses on specific places in Chicago's Black Metropolis and examines the process by which buildings become historic structures. Explains that the lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration file, "Black Metropolis Thematic Nomination," and could be used in a unit on 20th-century urban…