Oak Park, Illinois, has more than 30 years of experience with policies expressly aimed at maintaining an integrated community. The policies address issues in housing, education, public safety, and economic development that policy makers believe contribute to resegregation.
The Proposed New Interstate 69 Highway: Is It a Cost-Effective Rural Economic Development Tool for Southwest Indiana? GCP-99-3
This study examines the cost-effectiveness of the Evansville-to-Bloomington portion of the proposed new Interstate 69 highway in Southwest Indiana in fulfilling its stated purpose of stimulating economic development in four rural Indiana counties.
Principles and Practices for Creating Systems Reform in Urban Workforce Development GCP-99-2
This brief provides advice for state and local governments as they define their One-Stop Employment Centers and broader workforce development systems.
Obstacles to Employment of Women with Abusive Partners: A Summary of Select Interview Data GCP-99-1
A high proportion of women who receive welfare are abused by their intimate partners.
Esperanza Familiar: A University-Community Partnership in the Settlement House Tradition GCP-98-4
This paper uses a network analysis to study the emergence of a communityuniversity partnership in Chicago's Pilsen community.
Social Mobility Along the Continuum of Care GCP-98-3
The homeless problem now enjoys a settled if marginal place in U.S. domestic policy.
The Chicago Response to Urban Problems: Building University/Community Collaborations GCP-98-5
Modern university/community relationships are sometimes marked by division and hostility.
Goal Achievement , Relationship Building, and Incrementalism GCP-97-12
Planning theories have often argued that the rational planning model continues to dominate the rhetoric and intent of most planners, even though there is a great deal of intellectual acceptance of the idea that planning practice rarely conforms to the model (Baum 1996; Hoch 1995, 225).
Long-Term Collaboration: Building Relationships and Achieving Results in the UIC Neighborhoods Initiative GCP-98-1
Much has been written in the past few years about the need for universities to become involved in partnerships with other organizations to address societal problems more directly.
Economic Renaissance in the Windy City: The Wind of Change of Just Hot Air? GCP-97-6
With cities, the story always seems to be dramatic--either they are dying, becoming irrelevant, going bankrupt; or they are being reborn, cities are on the rise, the return of the downtown.