Urban policy

Abstract The Baltimore City Office of Civil Rights (now named The Office of Civil Rights and Wage Enforcement) is the city agency responsible for enforcing the federal and local civil rights laws and wage laws. The office includes three commissions and one board: the Community Relations Commission, the Mayor's Commission on Disabilities, the Wage Commission, and the Civilian Review Board. This collection documents the Community Relations Commissions’ work throughout the second half of the twentieth...

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The collection contains a data set of neighborhood surveys conducted in 1983 by Matthew Crenson for his book, "Neighborhood Politics." The Data set series documents neighborhoods throughout Baltimore City. The Publications series includes community and neighborhood profiles for various locations in the city dated 1980-1996. This series also includes documentation from 1999 on the proposed structure of the "Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Center."

Content Description The collection contains reports and urban planning documents from the 1962 through 2018, mostly produced by Josef Nathanson. The Baltimore Metropolitan Area is the focus of these reports; however, case studies of other locations in Maryland and the United States are also represented in Nathanson's urban planning and economic development portfolio. Of particular note in the Baltimore material are records of the Community Economic Development Program, the first demonstration area in the...