"The American people haven't made up their minds what they want cities to be. They don't know how much agony they want cities to go through. They have to ask themselves: do cities represent an important national resource? And if so, they have to support them."

Robert P. Rosell, Director of Community Development Commission, Detroit. Qtd in "Detroit Struggles to Save Itself, " by Susanna McBee, Washington Post, February 20, 1973, A12.

RED SQUAD is a 1972 documentary, made under the auspices of Martin Scorsese's NYU production class, that seeks to document the police surveillance of protest and activist groups.

http://www.psfp.com/redrevisited.htm

From CINCINATTI Magazine, an article detailing how downtown renewal projects make Cincinatti's downtown ideal for... people. The implication being that the downtown core was perceived to, or actually was, absent of people. This seems to be a fairly prevalent presumption in the 1970s (see Arendt's review of Illumintations etc.)

[Magazine accessed via cover browser archive)

References for "Location Shooting" from Film Literature Index, 1973 and 1974

"Scenario for an 'NG'; or what every young filmmaker should know about locations but was afraid to ask." BUSINESS SCREEN 34: 24-25, Jan-Feb 1973.

"Arriflex 35 BC Makes Production Debut in Across 110th St." AM CIN 54(5), August 1972, 876-877.

"Question of the Month: What sort of difficulties did you encounter while shooting abroad and how did you surmount them?" J. Newby and others. MILLIMETER 2:32-3, Nov. 1974.

Film LIT index also references a publication titled "Making Films in New York" - possibly put out by the Mayor's Office? The Jerome Hill Archives at the Anthology Film Archives in New York appears to have editions of this for 1967 and 1972 - no mention of 1974.

Net-published (unpublished?) book on Detroit from the Germany-based Shrinking City project.

http://people.emich.edu/mryan7/pdfs/WP-Band_III_Detroit.pdf

Includes small filmography of Detroit-based films with annotations.

Jean Baptiste-Thoret, who has written Le Cinéma américain des années 70, writes an obtuse piece for Senses of Cinema here:

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2011/feature-articles/the-seventies-reloaded-what-does-the-cinema-think-about-when-it-dreams-of-baudrillard/

Lots of nonsense, but could prove useful at some point for disagreeing with.

Following up on last year's Brookings (?) report on the reversal of suburbanization, here is a piece from the Gawker with links to other reports on demographic changes occuring in cities and suburbs.

http://gawker.com/5816205/old-people-are-clogging-up-the-suburbs