Camden, New Jersey, a city of 80,000 located directly across the Delaware River from center-city Philadelphia, is, by any index of urban decay, one of the nation's most distressed urban centers. While severely ineffective, the city houses the essential building blocks of future recovery: branches of four colleges and universities and two major…

The author explores the potentially significant relationship between continuing education and urban administration. Recent literature is reviewed, and the innovative master of arts program in urban-suburban administration at the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut is described. (EA)

This guide presents seven units of study for secondary level social studies classes learning about New York City. The curriculum is designed to encourage students' active participation in, rather than passive observation of, their urban environment. Therefore, the various activities presented require students to investigate their own community's…

A melding of community professionals, graduate students, and sociology faculty to identify and study urban community problems proved to be a viable technique for an experimental seminar program. (Author/KM)

When photographically reproduced for classroom use, the physical city as a visual tool of the urban past can be a valuable teaching technique. Suggestions for using city photographs in secondary classrooms are included. (Author/JR)

The failure of today's newspapers to provide creative leadership in successfully integrating our cities is tragic. White racism has become a critical factor in the neglect of our cities, as has the reluctance of some newspeople to involve themselves more deeply in efforts to explain today's urban crisis. Much of the journalism profession's…

This document presents a collection of energy conservation ideas gathered from a survey of Texas cities and via a national search of recent technical information. The conservation ideas presented are grouped into categories of: administrative concerns, public buildings, public vehicle fleets, transportation systems, municipal utilities, alternate…

Understanding Metropolitan Living (UML) was a cooperative summer school sponsored and conducted by a suburban school district in Johnson County, Kansas, and the central city school districts in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. A six-week instructional program was conducted between June 8 and July 17, 1970, for 40 suburban students…

In October 1966 the Ford Foundation established a $10 million line of credit to encourage and assist Columbia University in committing a greater share of its resources and energies to urban and minority affairs. In September 1967 the Urban Center was established as an integral part of the University to administer the Ford funds and to increase the…

Roger Williams College is one of 20 colleges and universities engaged in a new cooperative educational venture that offers an alternative approach to obtaining a college degree. The program, called the University Without Walls (UWW), is designed to provide mature students with new learning opportunities in higher education outside of the…

The present document presents an outline and discussion of a course designed to instruct students in the workings of the legal processes as related to the solving of today's urban problems. The project in its entirety resulted in a product that can be adapted to meet the needs of urban science students from several instructional points of view.…

This document has two parts. Part I is a rationale developed to present a point of view about the opportunities for environmental education in urban schools. The premise is that environmental education should be a vital part of the total school program. Part II, Teaching Activities, contains ideas and suggestions for implementing such a program.…

For teaching about urban geography, it is suggested that students first examine self-contained buildings and treat them as miniature cities, then advance to more traditional concerns of the discipline. (Author/ND)

Describes a grade eight course which focused on the neighborhood surrounding an inner city school. The course's objectives were to have students identify architectural features and their relations to architectural styles; ascertain the dominant style and date of probable period of construction; and make a composite map of the area, showing…

Presents an eight-step process for developing and presenting a supplementary unit to help students in grades 5-12 understand in greater depth the story of America's cities. (RM)