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Describes a graduate seminar called "Sustainable Urban Design" that intended to present the historical sweep and social development of the city from antiquity to the present with an interest toward designing and building sustainable cities in the future. Considers multimedia and computer resources and student hypertext projects. (CMK)

The article examines impact of East Asian auto transplants in North America, on regional and local economy. It analyzes three auto transplants to evaluate success and shortfalls of these plants in terms of reorganization, business and economic development of region.

The North American auto marketplace witnessed a major restructuring during the 1980s. This article examines UAW's and CAW's quite different and distinctive responses to these developments at two union plants: the UAW's and GM's joint operation of the Saturn plant and the CAW's adversarial shop floor labor-management relations at CAMI, a GM-Suzuki joint venture. Then the article focuses on the common challenges both unions have to overcome in organizing Hyundai, the South Korean automaker, and the six Japanese plants. The article closes by exploring the risks and opportunities both unions face from the North American Free Trade Agreement., During the decade of the eighties, ten East Asian automobile assembly plants were built across the industrial heartland of North America from Smyrna, Tennessee to Bromont, Quebec.(1) This experience, rooted [...]

Byline: Ernest J. Yanarella, Horace Bartilow Sustainable development joined the global vocabulary of the 1990s as a catchword or rallying cry at international conferences and other forums. This essay begins by clarifying two key terms - the 'local' and the 'global' - in the sustainability debate by examining the contested meaning and implications of the adage, 'think globally, act locally'. A critique of the deployment of those terms in the strategy of 'green globalism' - a particular rendering of sustainable development put forth by major political power brokers and economic and financial stakeholders - follows. This critique serves as a springboard for a critical examination of the perils of environmental moralism expressed in Agenda 21 and other international sustainability declarations put forth in recent years. Recognising that the achievement of local sustainable development must be linked with demands of countries of the South for programmes of global economic redistribution, this analysis then develops a critique of the Brundtland Commission report as a prelude to a detailed critical analysis of the sustainable development policies of the World Bank's 1992 World Development Report. Finally, the paper attempts to surpass localist/globalist contradictions in the global sustainability debate by speculating on the promise and possibilities of a New International Economic Order (NIEO).