Management Development for Urban Administration.

Readings summarize presentations made at seminars conducted by the Continuing Education Center for the Public Service at Syracuse University. They cover: personal communication skills, kinds of information needed by a public official, and information retrieval system; how to persuade, sell, listen, argue in everyday public relations; organization and supervision, staffing, decision making and planning; and application of new management techniques to local government; and the future of urban areas. (PT)