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In the study described in this paper, the attitudes of evening college students toward urban issues were assessed. Students' responses concerning assertiveness in reconciling such issues as housing, transportation, environment, poverty and the urban/suburban relationship in the New York metropolitan area were measured in a pre and post test attitude scale. A program was devised for increasing the knowledge and awareness of adult students about urban concerns. The students were organized into two groups in which they attempted to research and make recommendations about improving the ways the nation's urban areas are developing, and about ways to enhance the urban process. Correspondence on these issues was conducted with urban politicians. Students, it was found, reached a more realistic understanding of urban problems than they had originally possessed. This program is cited as an example of the way urban problems may be corrected through education. (Author/GC)