This kit, designed for leaders and participants, provides a model for organizing and taking part in Community Consultation Groups. The kit was designed to be used in connection with community concerns about growth in Boulder, Colorado. These groups build upon a previous survey to assist the Commission in determining specific growth concerns in the…

These materials are designed to provide a compact listing of sources of information as well as a collection of tested formats for collecting resource information for a town or city. It provides supplementary materials for the Land Use Decision Making Kit. Among materials included are listings of federal agencies involved in water and land use…

Included in this set of materials are two units: (1) Geosystems and (2) Open Space. Each unit includes student guide sheets, reference material, and tape script. A set of 35mm slides and audiotapes are usually used with the materials. The unit on Geosystems introduces the student to geosystems and the role of geosystems in the land use decision…

This material includes student guide sheets, reference materials, and tape script for the audio-tutorial unit on Inland Wetlands. A set of 35mm slides and an audio tape are used with the material. The material is designed for use with Connecticut schools, but it can be adapted to other localities. The materials emphasize characteristics of inland…

Describes a strategic plan developed at a community mental health center, the Summit Center for Human Development, to deal with its own survival while public demand increases, and federal and state programs are cut back. Examines current and prospective services and outlines directions for enhancing the mandated and optional services provided…

Two rail-served Alaskan ports are examined with the purpose of explaining traffic volume trends in terms of demand variations and characteristics of the rail connections. (Author/AV)

A living systems model of community development has been synthesized from elements of three perspectives: (1) a global movement toward more sustainable patterns of human development that is identifying indicators of community health in a wide range of categories; (2) research on the complex interactions of living systems that make life on earth…

Describes how, in California, the Santa Clara County school system recognizes a responsibility to promote integration, by operating a Planning Resources Office that works to end bias in hosing, which so often has thwarted educators because it permits them to touch only on the edges of the problem. (Author/JM)

Describes how a board, community officials, and developers work closely together to plan for new schools in the rapidly growing suburb of Schaumburg Township, Illinois. (JF)

Discusses the activities and attitudes of a group of academicians active in one area of current social change--race relations--in a mideastern urban area, with respect to their roles and their institutions' roles in the current social change. (Author/JM)

Part of a series of articles entitled "Environment and the Child.

New York representatives Jack Kemp and Robert Garcia have introduced a bill in Congress that proposes to entice business to and create jobs in blighted urban areas by offering federal tax breaks. While the bill has gained some support, the suspicion remains that the plan will ultimately benefit business at the expense of the poor. (Author/MJL)

A college instructor discusses his experiences in leading a student field study and planning project centered on the traditional rural African Market. Students benefitted from their work, but the instructor was unable to convince his colleagues about the project's validity. (Author/WB)

Presents a framework for formulating urbanization policies and discusses the application of this paradigm in the context of Islamic ideology. Operationalization of the framework is developed as a five-step sequence. (Author/WB)