This is a guide to help you as an employer design and implement programs to ensure fair and equal treatment for all persons, regardless of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, in all employment practices.

The purpose of this study was to: 1) survey the state, metropolitan, non-metropolitan, and City planning agencies receiving comprehensive planning funds from HUD. 2) give similar attention to their relations with independent commercial contractors; 3) review the equal opportunity design and approach of these organizations through their workplans; and 4) offer suggestions and case studies of what should and should not constitute proper programming to provide equal opportunity within guidelines, regulations, Executive Orders, and statues pertaining to these programs. The findings of the study establish that a great deal is yet to be done to clarify the operational aspects of equal opportunity in planning.

Cities and Their Vital Systems asks basic questions about the longevity, utility, and nature of urban infrastructures; analyzes how they grow, interact, and change; and asks how, when, and at what cost they should be replaced. Among the topics discussed are problems arising from increasing air travel and airport congestion; the adequacy of water supplies and waste treatment; the impact of new technologies on construction; urban real estate values; and the field of "telematics," the combination of computers and telecommunications that makes money machines and national newspapers possible.