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- 63 -ditions of stagflationary crisis of contemporary capitalism) ; Mighael Jager "A Study on the Study of UrbanSocial Movements" ; Len Eastop "On Participation in an Urban Renewal Scheme" ; Michael Berry "Housing as anElement in the Reproduction of Labour Power" ; Jim Kemeny "Homeownership and Privatisation in CapitalistSocieties : A Cross-Cultural Perspective" ; Bettina Cass "A Critical Evaluation of the Concept of Consumptionin Urban Sociology" ; S .B . Aungles "The Social Consequences of Industrial Development and Industrial DeclineWhyalla : A Case Study" ; E .A . Cleland and R .J . Stimson "Equity and Services in Cities : The Example of MetropolitanAdelaide" :Terry Burke and Kath Hulse "Residential Caravans : A New Housing Class" ; Leslie Kilmartinand David C . Thorns "The Heart Possessed : Ownership of Central Business Areas in Australasia . A ResearchProposal"These papers are available, at A$3 .75 (payable to "ISA Urban Group) including surface postage, from ;Patrick Mullins, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland, St . Lucia, Queensland4067, Australia .For Neighbourhood UrbanistsUrban Affairs Quarterly will have a special issue on "The Revitalization of Inner City Neighbourhoods ."Among the topics the editors have in mind are : empirical studies on inner city revitalization ; theoreticalexplanations of the changing patterns of urban neighborhoods ; life-style differences between urban andsuburban areas ; the political economy of inner city revitalization ; differences between areas that have beenaltered by governmental policies and those that have been "spontaneously" rehabilitated ; documentation ofthe extent of social organizational changes in inner cities ; the impact of population changes on thecommercial and retail life of the inner city ; intra-city migration patterns by class and status ; analysesof the displacement process and of displaced populations . Other topics would be considered . Interestedauthors should send a brief outline of the proposed contribution to Bruce London, Department of Sociology,Mary Washington College, Fredricksburg, Virginia 22401, U .S .A. Three copies of prospective papers shouldbe subiaitted by 1 June 1979 .World Directory of Anthropologists and EthnologistsA computer--based directory of 5000+ anthropologists and ethnologists has been developed . It can printboth lists and labels, retrieving by name and address, in conjunction with country of location, languagesused, geographical or tribal areas of interest, and subject-matter interest . All enquires should beaddressed to Jacqueline Rouah, Current Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B .C ., CanadaV6Y 1W5 .Letter from NottinghamThe January, 1979 "Urban Change and Conflict" conference (150 and attendees) was the third in a significantseries . The first in 1975 has become retrospectively famous in England as it was the occasion whena number of French and Italian Marxian urbanists (perhaps Manuel Castells is the best known) gave Englishspeaking urbanists the message that their own work had seriously ignored the ways in which class structureand conflict determined urban form and process .Four years later that message sPPms to have been accepted, consolidated and frequently watered down ina mixture of British pragmatic empiricism . Most of the formal papers at the conference were couched insome sort of Marxian structural language ; the informal discussions even more so . Most papers stuck muchmore closely to empirical case study than to abstract generalization . Most tended to use a network cumstructuralist framework to organize and analyze the relationships involved .There were a number of good papers, particularly noteworthy for CONNECTIONS readers are those byRoberts, Saunders, Elliott and McCrone, Newby, and Piven and Cloward . A list of selected papers (seemeeting calendar) summaries (see Abstracts section) follows . Please note that the summaries have beenexcerpted by CONNECTIONS' editors in all but Abrams' case . The absence of a summary implies no editorialjudgement other than the difficulty of properly excerpting . The conference was sponsored by the Centrefor Environmental Studies, London .Mental Health and Social Networks : A Request for Information and AdviceChristopher Smith (Geography, Oklahoma) writes :"Beginning January 1, 1979, I am working as a National Science Foundation Resident with the MentalHealth Association in Oklahoma County . This Residency is a part of NSF's Science for Society Program, andI shall be on leave from my job at the University of Oklahoma for 12 months . During that time, I shall belooking into the situation of mental patients who are discharged from the major mental hospital in centralOklahoma and who returned to live in the Oklahoma City area .The topics I shall be considering are as follows : (1) The individual search for help and serviceswithin the city . I am interested in who they go to for help both formally and informally, and what their