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No restrictions. Open for research.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Center for Urban and Regional Studies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40274, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Sensitive Materials Statement

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• City planning--Research.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• Regional planning--Research.
• Research institutes--North Carolina.
• Rural conditions--Research.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Research grants.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Center for Urban and Regional Studies.
• Urban policy--Research.

• Institute for Research in Social Science Records (#40075)
• Office of Provost Records (#40039)
• Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Records (#40076)
• F. Stuart Chapin Papers (#4268)

The Center for Urban and Regional Studies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was established in 1957 as the Urban Studies Program of the university's Institute for Research in Social Science. In 1969 it became a separately administered center, and in 1988 it became a part of the Department of City and Regional Planning. The Center for Urban and Regional Studies conducts and supports both basic and applied research on urban, regional, and rural planning and policy issues. It is one of the oldest university-based centers of its kind, and its research is focused throughout North Carolina and the United States.

Records of consist of files on research grants and contracts conducted by the Center for Urban and Regional Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995-2001. Files contain grant applications, reports, institutional review board forms, and correspondences between agencies.