Planning for a New Century or Moving up and out

Planning for a New Century: The Regional Agenda

Author: Jonathan Barnett

<p>Across the United States, issues such as sustainability, smart growth, and livable communities are making headlines. Planning for a New Century brings together leading thinkers in the fields of planning, urban design, education, welfare, and housing to examine those issues and to consider the ways in which public policies have helped create—and can help solve—many of the problems facing our communities.<p>Each chapter identifies issues, provides background, and offers specific policy suggestions for federal, state, and local initiatives. Topics examined include: <ul><li>the relation of existing growth management policies to social equity, as well as how regional growth management measures can make new development more sustainable <li>how an obscure technical procedure in highway design becomes a de facto regional plan <li>ways in which local governments can promote environmental preservation and better-designed communities by rewriting local zoning and subdivision ordinances <li>why alleviating housing shortages and slum conditions has resulted in a lack of affordable housing, and how that problem can be solved <li>how business improvement districts can make downtowns cleaner, safer, and more welcoming to workers and visitors</ul><p>In addition, the book features chapters on public safety, education, and welfare reform that include proposals that will help make regional growth management easier as inner-city crime is reduced, schools are improved, and concentrations of extreme poverty are eliminated.<p>Planning for the New Century brings together current academic research with pressing public policy concerns, and will be a useful resource for policymakers at all levels of government, for planners and architects, and for students and scholars of urban planning and design, and urban studies.<p>

Book about: Seminar in Physical Education or Managing Now

Moving up and out: Poverty,Education,and the Single Parent Family

Author: Lori Holyfield

Focusing on single women with children in poverty and the obstacles they encounter in trying to change their lives and class position

Author Biography: Lori Holyfield is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.

Library Journal

Holyfield was a high school drop-out struggling as a head of household who eventually completed her GED and went on to finish a Ph.D. She was also one of the first single parents to receive a scholarship from the Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund (ASPSF), a nonprofit organization that since 1984 has provided scholarships for struggling single parents interested in continuing their education. Holyfield, now assistant professor of sociology at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, has written this book for two reasons: to share the stories of the ASPSF scholarship recipients as they work their way out of poverty and to provide a useful guide for communities beyond Arkansas that want to set up a similar scholarship fund. She ably accomplishes both goals. The only minor drawback is that the personal glimpses are often too brief. Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton, who was a founding board president of the fund, has written a compelling foreword, challenging local business, churches, civic organizations, and others to form their own funding committees. Recommended for academic and large public libraries. Sandra Isaacson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Technical Reference Ctr., Las Vegas Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xiii
	Acknowledgments	xix
	Introduction	1
1	It Ain't That Simple	9
2	Barriers to Success	21
3	Myths and Images: The Morality Trap	33
4	Education and Mobility	49
5	Chance and Choice	73
6	Starting a Single Parent Scholarship Program: Ingredients for Success	87
7	Where Do We Go from Here?	105
	Appendixes	119
	Notes	135
	References	145
	Index	157