Urban Council Research Articles

A GRAPHICAL INTERFACE FOR MAINTAINING PLANT ACCESSION AND DATA RECORDS IN dBASE IV

The Oklahoma Botanical Garden and Arboretum (OBGA) at Oklahoma State University was awarded an “America the Beautiful” grant from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture and the Oklahoma Urban and Community Forestry Council to develop a plant database and plant identification labels.The OBGA Plant Information Manager version 1.0 was created to assist students, volunteers, and staff of public gardens with maintenance of data from plant accession, growth, flowering, fruiting, etc. The program is a graphical interface to dBASE IV records, created with Borland's ObjectVision 2.0 for Windows.Users are prompted for information via “check boxes” ⊗, “radio buttons” ⊙, and selection lists, thereby reducing incorrect entries. The series of forms leads the user through the process of plant accessioning, including information on donor, size, flowering season, fall foliage color, planting site, cultural preferences, etc.

Democratizing Local Government: The Sheffield and Doncaster Experience

The new urban left in local government in Britain aimed to change the way in which local councils operate so that the users and providers of council services, along with the local community, could gain greater control over the development and provision of council services. This paper considers why the new urban left grew in local government in Britain. Drawing on a comparative case study of two Labour local authorities, one -Sheffield a new urban left council, the other Doncaster a traditional or right-wing Labour council, a number of explanations are advanced for the lack of progress in 'demo- cratization' in Sheffield City Council.

Hong Kong Lichens. By S. L. Thrower, Hong Kong: Urban Council. 1988. Pp. 193, coloured plates.

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Household Life-Cycle Change in the Urban Council Housing Sector, 1971–81

Significant sociospatial changes have recently taken place within the British council housing sector. In this paper the evolution of life-cycle patterns on Birmingham council estates between 1971 and 1981 is investigated. An analysis of household life-cycle characteristics on 10 representative study estates is carried out using relevant census data. A more detailed examination of change within one of these estates is also conducted. Although household ageing in situ is identified as the primary process, the findings also indicate notable decreases in families with children on those inner-city and suburban estates whose dwelling stocks include high proportions of flats. Such decreases are consistent with recent shifts in local authority policies of housing allocation.

Lost & Found: 89. Echalaz collection

Browsing in an old second hand book catalogue recently 1 noted the following entry: 'ECHALAZ C Waterloo Museum, Liverpool. Complete History (and Description) of the Echalaz Collection (of Birds). CROYDON (1908) 8vo., plates, cloth'. This seems to be a very scarce item and it would be interesting to locate a copy to see if the Museum included geological material. The Waterloo Museum is clearly that described by Howarth and Platnauer (1911, p.230) as the Museum at Waterloo-with-Seaforth, near Liverpool (pop. 26,399) run by the urban district council, in a single room. The contents are chiefly birds with a general collection. The birds are the collection of -174- Lt, Col. Echalaz, for which *a hand-book (Illustrated) of the Echalaz collection, compiled...

THE BRITISH LIBRARY AND THE SHIRE COUNTY

It would be quite impossible to assess the true value of the British Library as a national support service to any library authority without first sketching the historical background of local government reorganization, as in Devon in 1974, and the resultant upheaval. In comparison with other shire counties, I would not presume to suggest that Devon's problems were any more acute than those of its fellows, but the amalgamation, including three county boroughs, an urban district council, a county council, and a small borough, proved to be a severe testing ground for all concerned.

The 4th Festival of Asian Arts, 19 October – 3 November 1979, Hong Kong, Presented by the Urban Council, n.p., n.d. - The 5th Festival of Asian Arts, 16 October – 1 November 1980, Hong Kong, Presented by the Urban Council, n.p., n.d.

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The lodge as an urban council activity

AbstractAs a nonprofit, private organization, we discovered that we were quickly caught up in the ongoing battle between the state hospital and the local mental health center.

Elected Representatives in a Party System: A Typology

In the widespread complaints about the prevalence of party influence in local government there is a recognizable stereotyping of local politicians and parties which is a caricature of the complex reality. The purposes of this paper are to question the validity of the stereotypes and to suggest the abandonment of simplistic categories in favour of categories which go some way at least towards recognizing the complex variables which shape the role-playing of elected members. What follows is based on a ten year period of participant-based research in an urban county borough council. Material from this specific study was supplemented by participant observation in a new county council and by observation-based research in two other boroughs. Participant research is a technique which creates a number of problems, the most formidable being that the researcher is a ‘partisan’ role-player in the ongoing local authority activities. In Halifax (the first-mentioned urban authority) this was not a great problem because the context was influenced by a three-party system in which the ongoing decisionmaking was tripartite and, indeed, occasionally multi-partite.

The sociologist in town planning practice

Abstract THE SOCIOLOGIST IN TOWN PLANNING PRACTICE: Sociological knowledge can be implemented in town planning practice either by the expert sociologist or by the town planner with a sociological background. The successful operation of the town planning team requires a high degree of sophistication in the town planning approach, which depends, inter alia, on a high level of training. Although South Africa still produces too fe w qualified town planners. the backlog is gradually being erased, which can lead to an increase in the academic level of qualified planners. Some divisions of planning practice by private consultants in South Africa, such as township establishment, are very design-orientated and do not call upon the sociologist. Other divisions, such as the preparation of master plans, do use the sociologist. Expert sociologists are too “time consuming” to be very popular with the town planning consultant. Government planning bodies are so dominated by political considerations that there is little scope for the sociologist. Liaison between these planners and sociologists is also practically non-existent. An urban research council on central governmental level ought to be of immense value. On provincial level only Natal does meaningful planning research. Of the local authorities, the larger ones like Johannesburg, do forward planning with an interest in the sociological aspects. The weak point in South Africa is not in the sociological research or in the town planning, but in the process of implementation of the valuefree sociological knowledge in the value-bound framework. Only a sub stantial increase in the number of highly qualified town planners with a sociological background can alleviate this situation.

Pest Control in the Urban Services Department in Hong Kong: Urban Council & Urban Services Department, Central Government Offices, West Wing, Hong Kong

Pest Control in the Urban Services Department in Hong Kong: Urban Council & Urban Services Department, Central Government Offices, West Wing, Hong Kong

Society of Radiographers

The following is an extract from an article in the Derby Evening Telegraph for April 20, 1933:— Mr. G. L. Stiles was last night elected chairman of Alvaston Urban Council in succession to the late Mr. R. W. Chapman. He had served for three years as vice-chairman.

Contracts. Impossibility of Performance. Supervening Statute. Leiston Gas Co. v. Leistoncum-Soziwell Urban Council. (1916) 1 K. B. 912

Contracts. Impossibility of Performance. Supervening Statute. Leiston Gas Co. v. Leistoncum-Soziwell Urban Council. (1916) 1 K. B. 912