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GCI Working Paper Series - Author Last Name: "J"
Jenkins, Davis
Making Connections:
Community College Best Practice in Connecting the
Urban Poor to Education
and Employment
Joan Fitzgerald and 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.
John, Richard
Telephomania: The Contested
Origins of the Urban Telephone Operating Company
in the United States, 1879-1894
Richard John
Associate Professor, Department of History
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago and Great Cities Institute Faculty
Fellow 2004-2005
June 2005
GCP-05-02
This paper seeks to redirect our understanding of the formative era
of American telephony by exploring the relationship between innovation,
government-business relations, and business strategy in the pre-1894
period in the large urban exchange. The focus is on Chicago, which,
along with New York City, was in this period one of the two largest
telephone exchanges in the world.
Judd, Dennis
Reconstructing Regional
Politics: Special Purpose Authorities and Municipal Governments
Dennis Judd
Professor, Department of Political Science
Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago
Faculty Fellow, Great Cities Institute
June 2003
GCP-03-01
In this working paper, Professor Judd asserts that special authorities
and development corporations shape metropolitan growth at least as much
as do cities, and that their fiscal and political authority is rapidly
increasing. As the center of gravity in urban development moves away
from general-purpose governments, important questions arise: How can
these new institutions be made accountable, yet remain effective? Does
the new institutional fragmentation of urban regions doom the prospects
for regional cooperation and governance?
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