GCI Working Paper Series - 1997
Making Connections:
Community College Best Practice in Connecting the Urban Poor
to Education
and Employment
Joan Fitzgerald & Davis Jenkins
January 1997
GCP-97-1
This report examines how partnerships with community colleges can create
pathways to employment for the urban poor. Drawing mainly on six case
studies of urban community colleges, the report presents examples of
best practice partnerships involving community colleges and community-based
organizations (CBOs), government, and social service organizations.
Does
“Free Trade” Create Good Jobs? A Rebuttal to the Clinton
Administration
David Ranney
January 1997
GCP-97-2
This paper examines the employment claims related to deregulatory, export-promoting
policies. Using corporate case studies and statistical data, the paper
analyzes concludes the jobs employment trends.
University
Involvement in the Community: Developing a Partnership Model
Wim Wiewel & David Broski
January 1997
GCP-97-3
How can a university be useful to its community in a direct and applied
way? This discourse uses the specific approach taken by the University
of Illinois at Chicago to illuminate some of the issues that universities
have to confront in developing a partnership model of university-community
involvement.
The
Centrality of Place: The Urban Imagination of Sociologists
Anthony M. Orum
April 1997
GCP-97-4
This paper discusses the importance of urban place. The author conveys
his view of how place works by describing personal experiences with
urban places and by citing various perspectives on place as hope and
aspiration, place as community, and place as neighborhood.
Gender
Issues in the Construction of Scientific Knowledge:
Inquiry into a 6th
Grade Urban Classroom
Maria Varelas, Barbara Luster, Stacy Wenzel, &
Jane Liao
July 1997
GCP-97-5
This paper addresses preliminary data and analyses linking gender issues
with the teaching and learning of science. This study explores how elementary
students participate in lessons, develop meaning around topics, and
how teachers and students interact with each other.
Economic
Renaissance in the Windy City: The Wind of Change, or Just Hot Air?
Presentation Summary
Wim Wiewel
October 1997
GCP-97-6
This paper is the summary of a presentation given at the Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago conference, “The New Mosaic: New Partners, New
Ventures.” The paper provides an overview of the recent economic
growth in Chicago.
New
Directions for Central City and Suburban Development
Presentation Summary
Wim Wiewel
October 1997
GCP-97-7
Presented to the Downtown Economic Development Summit in Wilmington,
Delaware, this paper makes the claim that cities are still the most
creative, most productive, and most vibrant places and should be considered
as such by the federal government through effective urban policy. The
author calls for concerted government actions and private sector participation
to initiate and sustain growth in urban regions.
Peering
into the Urban Future: Blurred Visions, Double Visions, and a Little
Clear Thinking
Anthony M. Orum
November 1997
GCP-97-8
This essay reviews four major books that address the following conditions:
changes in the world economy that lead to capital mobility, the growing
polarity between the rich and the poor, and the political disputes,
particularly in the United States, between central cities and their
fringe areas.
Regional Cooperation and
Sustainable Growth:
A Study of Nine Councils of Government in the Northeastern
Illinois Region
Bonnie Lindstrom
November 1997
GCP-97-9
This research examines the historical development, functional responsibilities,
and sub-regional economic development agendas of nine councils of government
in the six county northeastern Illinois region. Formed in response to
the need of mayors and managers to consult on issues specific to their
sub-regions and in response to the mandate of ISTEA for local consultation
on transportation issues, the councils represent a new form of functional
regionalism.
Temporal
and Spatial Dynamics of Economic Development Initiatives
in a Context
of Global Integration
Victor M. Ortiz
May 1997
GCP-97-10
This article illustrates two local responses in El Paso, Texas, to the
ongoing integration of the U.S. and Mexican economies. he study examines
the responses of the labor and business communities. The case studies
are used to suggest new insights about the temporal and spatial dimensions
of globalization on the local level.
Analyzing
Economic Integration
Presentation Summary
David C. Ranney
May 1997
GCP-97-11
This paper analyzes trade as it has been impacted by neoliberal development.
Trade is considered in relation to capital flows and the impact of trade
is assessed in the broad concept of social wages. Also, the net costs
of import and export trade are estimated. This paper was presented at
Seminario Sobre Integracion Economica Regional in Madrid, Spain.
Goal
Achievement, Relationship Building, and Incrementalism:
The Challenges
of University-Community Partnerships
Wim Wiewel & Michael Lieber
January 1998
GCP-97-12
A four-step planning process describes the fluid planning model involved
in university-community partnerships. This planning model differs from
the rational planning model because the process is founded on the collaboration
of partners working together to achieve some goal. In this way, relationships
are built and goals are achieved. University of Illinois at Chicago
Neighborhoods Initiative is used to illustrate the relationship-oriented
planning process.
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