Located two miles from Dublin Airport, Ballymun was built (1966-9) to accommodate people displaced from the inner-city slums dramatised in Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy. "The Stage and the City" draws on the author's research project at Trinity College Dublin, on Theatre and Urban Regeneration. Specifically, it situates Dermot Bolger's…

Urban universities can serve as catalysts in bringing together disparate groups to develop a measure of hope for an improved quality of urban life. (Author/AM)

This report is aimed at urban groups, particularly minority groups, who want to participate in cable television (CATV) planning and ownership in their communities. The first section of the report describes the growth of CATV and the potential of CATV to help or hurt minority communities. Part two states "although this chapter focuses on…

An evaluation of the demonstration Urban Conservation Project (UCP) produced by WGBH, Boston's public television station, is presented. The project, released under the title "If You Live in a City, Where Do You Live?", seeks to link the value systems represented by the predominantly rural American conservation ethic with the plight and…

This report attempts to identify effective strategies that might be used by city and school administrators in planning, initiating, and coordinating comprehensive deprived neighborhood manpower and education programs. It is the result of a 4-day workshop of leaders in local government and school systems, held in late 1967 at the University of…

This report to Mayor Edward Koch examines the problems facing New York, New York, and suggests long-range solutions. Information was gathered from experts from within and outside city government, invitational hearings, and commissioned studies in areas of special concern. The Commission found that the city's economy had recovered from the fiscal…