From the proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction of 1915, this article examines the concept of a neighborhood community center, a public space with a variety of social activities for residents of all ages. It details the possible means of organizing such a space.   

LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

A brief statement on the various plans that had been used for playgrounds in a number of cities before 1908, for the use of committees planning public playgrounds, published under the Charities Publication Committee.

LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation

This address, prepared under the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation, details the exhibition of folk and national dances given in Van Cortland Park in 1908. It examines the role of folk dances and games in the playground movement.

LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Prepared by the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1909, this paper presents how public interest and funds were raised for various recreational spaces for children in Chicago at the time.

E. B. DEGROOT was director of gymnasiums and playgrounds, South Park System, Chicago.

This pamphlet was released by the Russell Sage Foundation’s Committee of Education in 1925, detailing proper fireproof building materials and safety regulations to prevent fires in schools.

This 1909 paper traces data on Chicago’s South Park Playgrounds to argue that the presence of parks and playgrounds in a neighborhood correlates to a decrease in the number of cases of juvenile delinquency.

ALLEN BURNS, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

A preliminary report of an investigation made by the Division of Education of the Russell Sage Foundation and the superintendents of schools of twenty-nine cities in 1911, with the aim of determining the best methods of identifying and helping misfit children in the classroom.

LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.

A volume of the Topeka Improvement Survey, a survey of health conditions in Topeka, Kansas, in 1914, this report centers on the administrative bodies of the city government, as well as the financial measures taken to fund these. Published with A Public Health Survey of Topeka by Franz Schneider, Jr., Delinquency and Corrections by Zenas L. Potter, and Industrial Conditions in Topeka by Zenas L. Potter.

D. O. DECKER was special agent of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.

A volume of the Topeka Improvement Survey, a survey of health conditions in Topeka, Kansas, in 1914, this report focuses on the sanitary conditions of the city, as well as the organization and work of the city health department. Published with Delinquency and Corrections in Topeka by Zenas L. Potter, Municipal Administration in Topeka by D. O. Decker, and Industrial Conditions in Topeka by Zenas L. Potter.

FRANZ SCHNEIDER, JR. was sanitarian at the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this pamphlet attempts to develop proper, universal plans for a detention home for women. Arguing that each prison would have specific building requirements and characteristics, the author presents several well-established canons of architecture and building which should be followed in any jail, emphasizing humane conditions and required needs. Printed with Plans for a Model Jail by R. W. Zimmerman.

MAXWELL HYDE, architect, New York