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Pottawattamie County Population Projections: 1975-2020, John P. Zipay

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The population estimates and projections to the year 2020 for Pottawattamie County are based upon specific assumptions regarding fertility, mortality, and migration patterns. These projections cannot be interpreted as statements of what necessarily will happen to population, they simply show what will happen if the assumptions upon which the projections are made prove to be correct. It is the responsibility of the user of this report to evaluate the reasonableness of the assumptions underlying the projections and to modify such projections if given different sets of assumptions.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1974, Vol. 02, No. 04, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Regional Planning: Omaha in the International Context," by Peter E. Pflaum.

Attitudes, methods, and results of local and regional planning as practiced in Omaha versus Great Britain are discussed in this paper. The article was stimulated by comparisons that were obvious to the author after recently spending three months in England. The principal factors involved in the Omaha-England comparison arc: (1) the organizational and administrative structure of the planning process, (2) the attitudes in the public and private domain towards planning, and (3) the relative costs and benefits of planning.

While …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1974, Vol. 02, No. 03, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of the Review of Applied Urban Research features "Nebraska State Highway-User Revenue: Its Distribution to Local Governments," by Ralph H. Todd.

The provision of highways, roads and streets is one of the most important functions performed by state and local governments. Nebraska expenditures on highways are second only to educational expenditures in quantitative importance.¹ The State and local transportation network is extensive. In 1973, Nebraska had enough state and local roads, streets, and highways to stretch nearly four times around the globe.² Due to t he existence of a large number of motor vehicles (1,089,872 registered …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1974, Vol. 02, No. 02, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Omaha's Changing Profile."

In cooperation with the Economic Development Council of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, the Center in 1973, initiated a program of providing up-to-date economic and demographic data on Omaha.¹

During the initial year, data were developed on population, employment, income, housing, retail sales and real estate values and taxes. The results of the year-long research has been produced as "Omaha's Changing Profile" {33 minute color slide presentation). In "Omaha's Changing Profile" the city was divided into six geographical subareas as depicted on Map 1. The delineations allow …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1974, Vol. 02, No. 01, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Revenue Sharing and the New Federalism" by Murray L. Weidenbaum.

While I was chairman of the Administration's Committee on Revenue Sharing and attempting to develop support for the program, I made literally hundreds of presentations to state and local government officials and civic groups throughout the nation.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1973, Vol. 01, No. 04, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Neighborhood Mobilization in Black Omaha: Some Observations," by Kwame Poku Annor.

The decade of the sixties was a period of major economic, political, and social change in large central cities; yet few major institutional innovations were adopted to enable the cities to cope more effectively with the new conditions. The failure of central cities to solve their more pressing problems and rising expectations among the disadvantaged led to agitation for major reform in the institutions of municipal government.

Incentive Study: Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area Planning Agency Missouri Riverfront Development Program, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This section presents a description of special incentives that could be used to attract commercial, industrial, and housing investment into the Riverfront Development area - particularly into the low income and deteriorated sections of the RDP. Special incentives in this paper refer to tax and non-tax inducements that may be used to reduce the cost and/or risk of commercial, industrial, and housing investment into the RDP. Specific recommendations are presented in section, Four.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1973, Vol. 01, No. 02, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Issues in School Desegregation" by Peter E. Pflaum.

The current school desegregation crisis in Omaha makes a review of the issues in school desegregation especially relevant. Desegregation first referred to the dismantling of the southern dual school systems. The general principle is that the racial identity of schools should be removed. There should not be 'black' schools or 'white' schools, just schools. Since 1964, the courts have acted not only where the segregation was 'de jure' (by law) but in cases of 'de facto' segregation (where segregation existed without clear action …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1973, Vol. 01, No. 01, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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Although employment conditions in the Omaha SMSA present an overall view of relative prosperity and economic well-being, there is a wide disparity between black and white employment by occupation.² This disparity, along with an equally disturbing income disparity between blacks and whites in similar occupation groups, merits the immediate attention of local businessmen, politicians, and concerned citizens.

In market terms, a common explanation for black-white employment and income differentials hinges on differences in educational (i .e., skill) levels. Hence, a person's employability potential is to a large extent a function of educational preparation, and one would expect rather wide …

Uno Enrollment Trends And Projections To 1977, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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While student enrollment has declined in most public and private colleges in Nebraska, the University of Nebraska at Omaha has experienced substantial growth over the past five years. From 1968 to 1972, UNO gained a total of 2,329 students; an annual growth rate of 5.4 percent (see Tables I, II, and III). During this period, the number of full-time students enrolled at UNO increased at an annual rate of 4.0 percent while part-time enrollment increased at an annual rate of 7.1 percent. Although first-time freshmen normally account for a large part of an institution's growth, the 1968-1972 period for UNO …

Education Profile: Omaha And The State, Lawrence A. Mazzotta

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The purpose of the compilation of statistical data offered here is to present an accurate enumeration of enrollment patterns as they exist as of Fall 1972.

Study Of The Omaha Area Delivery System For Social Welfare, Health, Education, Employment, Courts, Law And Recreation (With Emphasis On Programs And Services For Women And Girls), David W. Hinton, Ralph H. Todd

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This report was compiled over a four-month period of time, ending March 1973, and was made possible, in part, by a grant from the YWCA to the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Sections of the study include welfare, education, health, employment, jobs, courts, religious organizations and recreation. In each section the focus was on obtaining an average understanding of the scope of activity taking place with special emphasis on facilities and services for girls and women.

Omaha Profile Of Change, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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The age structure of a population provides a base for assessing present social and economic conditions as well as the starting point for predicting future population trends.

With an overall median age of 32.0 years, Omaha's population in 1950 (the unshaded population pyramid on page 3) had a sizeable proportion of its population of working age, but lacked school-age and young adult population. The four areas for which data were available paralleled the city's profile, with the closest match in the Northeast and Southeast.

Occupational Estimates And Projections Of The Omaha Smsa, David W. Hinton

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Local and regional planners have long recognized the need for detailed information on past, present, and projected occupational needs. Ideally, data on: (I) the number of workers employed, (2) their years of job experience, (3) their years and type of job training, (4) the number of workers to retire in the near future, (5) the number of new workers needed due to expected expansion, and (6) the salary levels of the various occupations for each firm and industry in the local economy should be available to describe occupational patterns. Such information would also provide a sound framework for projecting changes …

A Study Of Needs And Opinions Regarding A Proposed Downtown Educational Center, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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The basic purpose for the study was to ascertain the need for continuing adult education within the Omaha community. The research focused on the perceived needs and attitudes toward a Downtown Education Center of four different target groups.

Nebraska Population Projections: State, County, Region, And Town: 1975-2020, Vernon Renshaw, John P. Zipay, Duane Hackmann

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Many types of planning efforts depend on information about the future size and composition of the population. The projections in this report are intended for use in planning. Even under the best of circumstances, however, making projections that accurately indicate future prospects is difficult. Therefore, caution should be exercised when using these or any population projections.

The population projections in this report are the direct product of specific assumptions about future trends infertility, mortality, and migration. These assumptions, in turn, are based on information about past trends in factors which are considered to be the principal determinants of population change. …

Housing And Community Development In The Nebraska-Iowa Riverfront Project Area, 1973, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This report is concerned with housing and community development in the six county Riverfront Development Project (RDP) area. The six counties are: Douglas, Sarpy, and Washington Counties in Nebraska and Harrison, Mills, and Pottawattamie Counties in Iowa.

Delineations of the RDP study area and methodology and sample design for the 1973 Housing Survey are presented in Section One. A housing profile of 27 subareas is presented in Section Two. Changes in basic housing conditions for the six counties are presented in Section Three. Section Four provides an area-wide analysis of the 1973 Housing Survey, a 93 item questionnaire completed by …

Intercity Industrial Tax Comparisons, 1971-1973, Ralph H. Todd

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This study presents the results of efforts to update the intercity comparisons of state and local taxes on manufacturing firms as reported in a 1972 study entitled "Intercity Comparison of Taxes on lndustry." The intent of this study is to determine the changing tax position of Omaha relative to other cities since 1971. Recommendations for improving the attractiveness of Omaha as a site for industrial location are provided in the final section.

Worcester Model Cities Resident Attitude Survey, Else Wiersma, Floyd J. Fowler Jr., Center For Survey Research, University Of Massachusetts Boston, The Joint Center For Urban Studies Of The Massachusetts Institute Of Technology And Harvard University

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In January of 1972, the staff and resident representatives of the Worcester Model Cities neighborhood contracted the Survey Research Program to work with them to conduct a survey of neighborhood residents. The purpose of the project was to collect data that would assist those in the Model Cities area to systematically measure residents' perceptions and feelings, to identify problems and needs, to plan programs, and, perhaps, at a later date to have a basis against which to measure change.

The project, as it was designed and as it was carried out, was a joint effort. A committee of residents and …

Omaha Housing Marketing: An Appraisal Of The Occupancy Potential For Subsidized Rental Units, 1971-1973, Ralph H. Todd, David W. Hinton

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This study provides an analysis of market conditions for subsidized dwelling on its for a two year period from September 1971 to September 1973. It emerged because of the strong and prevailing belief that there exists today in the Omaha Housing Market Area (HMAl an urgent and unmet need for a large number of safe, decent dwelling units available at prices or rents that low and moderate income families can afford. The number of inadequate dwelling units (those lacking plumbing facilities or deteriorating or dilapidated), and the number of persons living below poverty level incomes are suggestive of the fact …

Kaleidoscope Newsletter, Vol. 01, No. 02, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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The Urban Affairs Kaleidoscope is a publication of the School of PubIic Affairs and Community Service at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Ua68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 8 – Childbirth & Infancy Life Cycle Series, Wku Sociology

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Table of Contents:

• Hernandez, Pedro F. Catholic Church & Birth Control in Latin America
• Kovit, Leonard. Labor is Hard Work: Notes on the Social Organization of Childbirth
• McNurlen, Lewis J. Childbirth: A Family Affair
• Miller, Rita Seiden & Ron Miller. Social Values Supporting Pregnancy: Dilemma for Population Control
• Newman, John F. & William L. Graves. Neo-Natal Mortality & Socio-Economic Status
• Newman, Lucille F. The Anthropology of Birth
• Rutzen, S. Robert. Urban Life & Breast Feeding: A Sociological Analysis
• Schulz, Barbara & Richard Schulz. Family Size Preferences & Sex Composition
• Steinhoff, Patricia G., Roy G. Smith & Milton Diamond. Characteristics & …

Kaleidoscope Newsletter, Vol. 01, No. 01, Carol Lunbeck

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The Urban Affairs Kaleidoscope is a publication of the School of Public Affairs and Community Service.

Report - Phase Ii, Ken White

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Where Phase I of the Corridor Selection Study concerned the delineation of neighborhood boundaries and establishment of cohesiveness levels, Phase I I emphasizes the impact of the highway on the neighborhoods. The following discussion is based on the assumption that the construction of a highway wiII have an impact on the surrounding neighborhoods, and that it is possible to measure and predict the nature and direction of the impact.

Cua Census Report Number 03: Indian Population In Douglas County, Carol Lunbeck

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In spite of the recent emphasis on minority group problems, there are still significant gaps in the store of knowledge about the American Indian in the urban setting. Omaha is not unique. Much empirical data can be found in the census figures, but it must be extracted and synthesized before it becomes meaningful. Even so, the picture of the urban Indian in Omaha is far from complete. If realistic solutions to the problems confronting urban Indians are to be found, a great deal more empirical research·should precede and accompany the development of programs. Programs which would attack the social inequities …

Toward The Development Of An Information Service On Poverty Problems For Community Agencies And Groups In The Omaha Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, Robert Simpson

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This study can be viewed as a problem in applied social science. Ho\v can the resources of the University, in this case the Center for Urban Affairs of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, be mobilized to provide a social intelligence function for agencies and citizens groups working on community problems in the Omaha SMSA.

More specifically the objective is to expand and utilize the poverty-related content of the Center for Urban Affairs data bank in such manner as to aid local agencies and groups who are working on poverty-related problems. The assistance is to take the form of reports …

Publications: June, 1971 To October, 1982, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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The publications listed in this booklet cover period from June, 1971 to October, 1982. A list of studies published prior to June, 1971 is also available from the Center for Applied Urban Research.

1970 First Count Census Data: Owner/Renter Occupancy, By Race, For Douglas County, Nebraska, John Nye, Frederick Adams

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Statements about the relative proportions of blacks and whites owning their homes are not infrequently stated in dogmatic fashion, even though not supported by "hard data." One possible use of the data contained in this report is to test hypothetical statements about race and home ownership. The data herein are all derived from Bureau of the Census computer tapes -- it will be assumed here that the available census figures approximate "reality. "

Education And Manpower In The Omaha Smsa, John C. Cunningham, James W. Collins, Cheryl Lantz Hover, John Nye, Janet Beezley Ed.

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This report is a compilation of statistics having to do with education and manpower in the Omaha Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA). The SMSA consists of Douglas and Sarpy Counties in Nebraska and Pottawattamie County in Iowa.

1970 First Count Census Data: Population And Housing Characteristics For Douglas County, Nebraska, John P. Zipay

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Changes in Omaha population from 1960 to 1970 have been more areal than real. While significant spatial changes of population may be noted, the rate of population growth during the decade can only be described as moderate. This is a conclusion from initial output from the U.S. Bureau of the Census' 1970 First Count computer tapes.

The census computer tapes provide population and housing data in more detail and in finer geographic areas than the traditional printed reports. In addition, since they are the medium through which the printed reports are generated, they provide valuable advance data to census users.