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)

Describes a project which investigates urban poverty through a field study approach. The article examines course aims and objectives, pre-planning and organization, activities, and program assessment. (Author/DB)

Historic preservation at Goucher is nominally designed to train students in techniques of maintaining the physical fabric of the past, to prepare them for graduate studies, and for careers as urban planners, historical archivists, and neighborhood preservationists. The success of the program is described. (Author/LBH)

Discusses the development of a design task in which the students can focus on problems in some part of the city. Describes such an improved strategy for teaching the design of complex systems as challenging and beneficial, especially for those interested in urban-related careers. (CC)

A sample unit providing materials and activities for grades 5-12 familiarizes the student with concerns affecting his future in relation to the energy crises and his role as a citizen. (Author/KM)

Paper presented at the 68th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1972; focuses on the interrelationship of urban structures of dominance, alternative value or meaning systems, and social control. (JM)

Building on the work of Charles Tiebout (1956), presents a consumer choice model in which tax-service ratios at different locations in the metropolitan area and family income are determinants of residential location. Then considers the implications of two possible solutions to urban area fiscal problems -- revenue sharing and metropolitan…

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…

One purpose of this essay is to attempt to isolate the theoretical sturcture implicit in the traditional metropolitan reform movement so that empirical research can be organized to examine the warrantability of the propositions contained therein; a second is to pose an alternative theoretical structure derived from work of political economists.…

Urban and regional development in Third World countries has been changing in terms of aims, planning style, analytic methods and scope. These evolving perspectives are reviewed, and recommendations for incorporating such changes into professional programs in urban and regional studies are presented. (WB)

Traces, through an autobiographical format, the development of a model for teaching urban studies in the primary grades which addresses eight different features including cognitive development, first hand experience, key concepts, and multidisciplinarity. Provides concrete examples of how the model may be used in practice. (DC)

Migration data suggest an evolutionary process in which central cities attract high status migrants when cities are relatively small, attract migrants less as they grow, and then again become attractive. Large northern cities may currently be in the middle stage. (Author/MJL)

Reviews and assesses selected topics within the field of urban sociology in the United States. Topics addressed are the growth of large cities, expansion of urban populations and industry, residential segregation by race/ethnicity, emergence of a societywide and multidimensional system of cities, and the recent growth of nonmetropolitan countries…

Challenges assumptions and research procedures leading to the position that below-average intellectual potential is an integral part of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. A study of 58 boys (ages 5 to 18) from urban, suburban, and rural settings indicated IQ range of 59 to 131 and no evidence of significant verbal deficit (reported in earlier studies).…