Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are pleased to welcome you to the second issue of GCI MONTHLY. Highlighting various items each month, this new briefing paper will keep you up-to-date on GCI projects and upcoming events, providing you with "news you can use".

As two of world's great cities experienced incomprehensible violence, so have we all been touched. If you have timely information that you would like to share with others in the GCI community, please drop us a line at gcities@uic.edu or 312.996.8700. All the best to you.

David Perry Professor and Director	Lauri Alpern Associate Director

Urban Affairs Review Finds a Home at GCI
One of the premiere interdisciplinary and international journals on cities, metropolitan areas and urban affairs, Urban Affairs Review, has moved its offices to the Great Cities Institute. After 17 years of growth and influence under the able editorship of Dennis Judd (UIC- Political Science), UAR is now co-edited by Susan Clarke (Colorado-Boulder), Gary Gaile (Colorado-Boulder) and Michael Pagano (UIC-Public Administration). The managing editor is Jaime Reed. The new editors would like to strengthen the efforts to internationalize the journal, explore useful strategies for expanding the academic reach of the journal, experiment with new technologies to benefit journal subscribers and contributors, bridge research and teaching interests of urban scholars, and enhance the visibility and relevance of the journal to those working on rethinking and reframing urban policy issues.

Contact: Michael Pagano, Professor, Public Administration, 312-355-4681, uar@uic.edu.

Teen REACH Improves Math and Reading Scores at Suder School
Teen REACH is a youth development initiative of the UIC Neighborhood Initiative funded by the Illinois Department of Human Services. The program provides academic enrichment, health and social services and mentoring throughout the school year and through the summer sessions. We are pleased to share the outcomes of the Teen REACH academic enrichment program, which provided tutoring during the summer school session. Through a partnership with Renacer Westside Community Network, students at Suder Elementary School received intensive individual and group instruction. Seventy percent of participating students increased scores in math and reading and were advanced to the next grade.

Contact: Regina Ortiz, Director, Better Care of Youth Program, 312-413-7270, pray@uic.edu.

GCI Joins Consortium to Develop Plan for China's Third Largest Island
Martin Jaffe, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Coordinator and Senior Research Associate at GCI, just returned from China, where he was working with UIC Urban Planning Professors Tingwei Zhang and Vonu Thakuriah on a planning project for Chongming, Changxing and Hengsha Islands in the Yangzi River delta. The largely rural islands are currently accessible only by ferry, and the project will assess the economic, land use, and transportation impacts of a national coastal highway that will directly link the islands to the mainland via a tunnel and bridges. UIC is part of a consortium of Chinese and foreign universities that have been asked by the municipality of Shanghai to develop a conceptual land use plan for the islands prior to the construction of the highway.

Contact: Martin Jaffe, Coordinator, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program, 312-996-2178, mjaffe@uic.edu.

Online Educational Opportunities Available Now
Space is still available for the fall session of GCI's Online Certificate in Nonprofit Management. Classes in Fundraising, Financial Management and the Nonprofit Board of Directors begin October 18. For further information visit http://cnm.cuppa.uic.edu.

Contact: John Mudd, Program Coordinator, 312-996-5167, jmudd1@uic.edu.

Calendar
Managing the Region's Water Supply
Thursday. October 18, 2001
The Great Cities Institute will begin its 2001-2002 lecture series with, Managing the Region's Water Supply, by Martin Jaffe, Coordinator, Illinois - Indiana Sea Grant College Program. The lecture will be from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Great Cities Institute, 412 South Peoria, Suite 400.

Design Matters Symposium
Monday and Tuesday, October 22 and 23, 2001
GCI is a co-sponsor of the UIC City Design Center's, Design Matters Symposium. The symposium will launch the first Internet catalog of outstanding affordable housing design in the United States, and provide a forum to discuss various affordable housing design issues. It will take place at the Chicago Circle Center, 750 S. Halsted.

For more information please visit http://affordablehousing.aa.uic.edu or contact the City Design Center at cdesignc@uic.edu.

People
GCI Fellow and College of Business Administration Dean Wim Wiewel presented "Restructuring of Urban Space: The Role of Universities in Urban Regimes" at the World Planning Schools Congress in Shanghai in August. Co-authored with GCI Visiting Fellow Frank Gaffikin, the paper compares real estate development projects by UIC and the University of Ulster. The paper will be available next month on the GCI web site.

GCI Director and Interim Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs David Perry also attended the World Planning Schools Congress where he was Chair of a Panel of Public Infrastructure and presented a paper "The Privatizing Discourses of Public Infrastructure: A Comparative Study of the Politics and Finance of Urban Tourism." A version of this paper will be published as part of the GCI Working Papers series 2001-2002 and will be available on the GCI web site.

GCI Faculty Scholar Spotlight
As a focal point for the UIC Great Cities Commitment, GCI hosts an annual peer-reviewed competition that attracts faculty from every part of the campus to apply for full year appointments as GCI Faculty Scholars in residence at the Institute. In the seven years the program has been in existence 63 faculty members from thirty different disciplines, departments or programs have participated in the program. Each month we will introduce you to one of the faculty spending the year with us. This month we focus on the work of Professor Alicia Adsera. Dr. Adsera is an Assistant Professor in UIC's Department of Economics. She has held previous teaching positions at Ohio State University and Universitat Atonoma de Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Adsera's current work includes two projects: how differences in local labor market institutions and economic conditions have changed fertility and child-rearing decisions in OECD countries, and the joint interaction of economics and politics.

A recipient of fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Government of Catalonia and the Bank of Spain, Dr. Adsera has been published in the Journal of Economic Growth, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and European Journal of Political Economy. In addition, she has participated in and presented work at the Econometric Society, the Illinois Economic Association, the American Political Science Association, the European Society of Population Economics, among others. Dr. Adsera holds a Ph.D. in Economics and a Master of Arts in Political Economy from Boston University. She can be reached at adsera@uic.edu.