This publication includes select presentations & remarks from a conference on urban universities. Topics of presentations include the nature of the university, worker education programs and universities, community-based centres of excellence, meeting needs of students, accessibility of universities, professional service and faculty rewards, continuing education, faculty attitudes, city/university interaction, high school student preparation for university, motivation & role of faculty, interinstitutional collaboration, faculty public service, the role of the university president, case studies of specific universities, the relationship between industry & academe, and the role of the urban university in policy analysis.

This paper discusses the effects of rural-to-urban & other types of migration on economic development & growth, plans & strategies for development of human settlements, the application of integrated programming for human settlement development in the third world, the role of the university in educating urban planners for work in the third world, and lessons from the third world for Canada regarding urban planning & development.

This study was undertaken to examine both the short- and long-term implications of reduced new house demand on the housing industry, and from this information, to consider appropriate public policy intervention. A literature review identifies macro-economic factors affecting the housing industry in the 1970s & 1980s, considers changes due to those factors, and elucidates the effects those factors are having on the structure of the housing industry. Government policy at the federal, provincial (Manitoba), & municipal (Winnipeg) levels is reviewed as it relates to long- & short-term change in housing activity, with particular attention to the effects of housing policy on production. Demographic trends & their implications for the Canadian, Manitoban, & Winnipeg housing markets are evaluated. To further discussion & extend it to consider future change, a more detailed examination is made of the Winnipeg housing industry, using three primary data sources: building permit data, capital cost allowance data, and surveys & interviews of local industry participants. The results demonstrate the need for a variety of solutions to address housing demand, industry reorganization & alternative functions, development of knowledge & skills for industry members, and industry capability to develop realistic demand forecasts.

A series of investigations to find ways of developing destinctive answers to problems within core of the city. The area used here is the area in Winnipeg which has been designated for urban renewal for the past 20 years. The aim is to discover ways in which the planning & implementation of improvements in this area could be more effective, more democratic. Focus of the investigations is how residents might become involved in, and even responsible for, renewal of their own neighbourhood. This report contains working papers based on these field investigations.

This paper looks at one possible development strategy for the inner city of Winnipeg, a strategy consistent with forecasts that the city will experience continued low growth to the year 2000. The proposed strategy of inner city stabilization recognizes that technological change has created an excess supply of downtown land in the inner city. The strategy involves the reclamation of obsolete industrial & commercial land in the downtown in order to create modern residential subdivisions which would border on a more compact downtown. It also proposes that land banking initiatives be undertaken in concert with the reclamation activities. Options for implementing the strategy are discussed and examples of potential reclamation parcels are identified.

Attempts to identify and measure the effects of length of urban residency on several dimensions of native labour market behaviour in Winnipeg.