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Reference Resources

General Resources

• Resource for Urban Design Information
• Urban Geography, Intute
• Planning and Land Use, Intute
• MegaCity TaskForce of the International Geographical Union
• Megacities and urban centers, Siemens AG
• Urban Developments Timeline
• Urbanicity
• Smart Growth Online

Associations, Organizations, Institutes ...

• American Planning Association
• Centre for Metropolitan History, Insitute of Historical Research
• Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto
• Center for Urban Development Studies, Harvard
• Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers
• European Urban Research Association
• Urban Affairs Association
• Urban Institute
• Urban Land Institute
• Urban Studies, University of Glasgow

Atlases, Maps, Gazetteers ...

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• Historic Cities: Maps and Documents, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Historical City Maps, Yale Map Collection

Bibliographies

• The Urban Past: An International Urban History Bibliography, Gilbert A. Stelter
• Urban Planning, 1794 - 1918, Cornell University

Current Awareness

• News, American Planning Association
• Cyburbia
• Planetizen
• H-Urban, forum
• Urban Planning Research, blog, Randall Crane
• Urban Cartography, blog

Databases and Data Sets

• Cities and Buildings Database, University of Washington
• Child Friendly Cities Database, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
• World Urbanization Prospects: The 2007 Revision Population Database, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN
• National Trends in Population, Resources, Environment and Development 2005: Country Profiles, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN
• Population, Resources, Environment and Development: The 2005 Revision, Data Online, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN

Directories

• Cities Online, Urbanicity
• SkyscaperPage, skyscaper directory

Reports, Studies, and Papers

• Urban Sociology and Community Studies, QUT ePrints Archive
• Architecture, Urban Environment and Building, QUT ePrints Archive
• CASA Working Papers Series, UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
• Furman Center Reports and Working Papers, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy
• Publications, Development Planning Unit, University College London
• Urban Development, Working Papers, World Bank
• March of the Cities, theme issue, Finance & Development, Volume 44, Number 3, September 2007
• Meeting the Challenges of Megacities in the Developing World: A Collection of Working Papers, Committee on Megacity Challenges and Its Panels on Improving Labor Markets, Sustainable Water and Sanitation Services, and Transportation Options, Office of International Affairs, National Research Council, 1996
• Urban Change and Poverty, Committee on National Urban Policy, National Research Council, 1988
• Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure, Committee on National Urban Policy, National Research Council, 1984

Serials

• Cityscape, 1994 forward, full-text
• European Journal of Spatial Development, current and recent articles
• Master Builder, 1998 forward, full-text
• Places Journal, 1983 forward, full-text
• Shelterforce, 2000 forward, full-text
• Sustainability: Science and Practice, 2005 forward, full-text
• US Housing Market Conditions, 1994 forward, full-text

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Asia and the Pacific

• UMP-Asia Occasional Papers, Urban Management Programme, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok
• Sustainable Urban Design and Climate, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
• Planning and Urban Design, National Capital Authority, Australia
• Children, Young People and the Built Environment (Inquiry), Children and Young People Committee, Parliament of New South Wales, 2005-2006
• Urban and Regional Research, Department of Planning and Community Development, State Government of Victoria, Australia
• Historical City Maps of Tianjin, Cornell University
• National Urban Health Resource Unit, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare and Urban Health Resource Centre, India
• Urban Development Department, Government of West Bengal
• Urban Publications, Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand

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Canada

Collective Resources

• Community Profiles, Statistics Canada
• Census Tract Profiles, Statistics Canada
• Census of Agriculture, Statistics Canada
• Community Information Database, Government of Canada
• Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation
• Social Cohesion: The Canadian Urban Context, Michael Toye, Parliamentary Information and Research Service, PRB 07-56E, 25 October 2007
• Guidelines for Federal Policy Priorities in Urban Areas, Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg, January 2001
• Urban Poverty Project: Community Profiles, Canadian Council on Social Development
• Cities and Communities, Canadian Policy Research Networks
• Urban Nexus, Canadian Policy Research Networks

By Place Name / Area

• Manitoba Community Profiles
• Atlas of York County, New Brunswick, H. E. Halfpenny, 1878
• Greater Saint John [New Brunswick] Community Foundation
• Saint John Board of Trade
• Atlas of Saint John City and County, New Brunswick, F. B. Roe and N. Geo. Colby, 1875
• Community Accounts, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador

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Europe

Collective Resources

• Urban Environment, Environment, European Commission
• European Urban Knowledge Network
• Center for Urban History for East Central Europe
• Urban Image Database, Center for Urban History for East Central Europe
• Urban Maps Digital, Center for Urban History for East Central Europe

United Kingdom

• Planning Portal
• RTN Working Papers, Urb-Europe
• Topographical Dictionaries, Samuel Lewis
• Planning Glossary, Government Office for the North East, 2005
• Local Development Scheme Database, Planning Portal
• Urban and Metropolitan History, British History Online
• London Metropolitan Archives
• Museum of London
• Charles Booth Online Archive, LSE
• [London and Region Maps], John Snow, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, UCLA
• Community Planning: Statutory Guidance, the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003

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International

• Urban Development, UNESCO
• UN Habitat
• Child Friendly Cities, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
• Child Friendly Cities Database, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
• Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003, Development Planning Unit, University College London
• Proceedings of the Expert Group Meeting on Population Distribution, Urbanization, Internal Migration and Development, New York: 2008, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN
• Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth, State of World Population 2007, United Nations Population Fund
• World Urbanization Prospects: The 2007 Revision Population Database, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN
• National Trends in Population, Resources, Environment and Development 2005: Country Profiles, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN
• Population, Resources, Environment and Development: The 2005 Revision, Data Online, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN
• World Urbanization Prospects: The 2003 Revision, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN
• World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN
• Urban and Rural Areas 2001, ST/ESA/SER.A/212, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN
• Urban Agglomerations 2001, ST/ESA/SER.A/213, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN
• World Urbanization Prospects: The 1999 Revision, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN
• Urban and Rural Areas 1996, ST/ESA/SER.A/166, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN
• Urban Agglomerations 1996, ST/ESA/SER.A/163, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN
• Urban and Local Government, World Bank
• Living Standards Measurement Study, World Bank
• Knowledge Network on Urban Settings, WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health
• Urban Sustainability Worldwide: An Information Resource for Urban Practitioners, Michael J O’Connell, Ref. ME495, November 2003, Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand

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Middle East and Africa

• Maps and the historical topography of Beirut, Michael F. Davie, Berytus, vol. 35, 1987
• Jerusalem: Urban Characteristics and Major Trends in the City's Development, Jerusalem Municipality, January 1997
• Jerusalem 3000: Three Millenia of History, Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, 17 April to 5 October 1996
• Jerusalem in Old Maps and Views, Government of Israel
• Jerusalem Mosaic Maps Gate Index, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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United States

Collective Resources

• Geopatial One Stop, geodata.gov
• DataPlace
• Department of Housing and Urban Development
• USDA Rural Development
• National Transportation Library, US Department of Transportation
• Community Connections: CPD's Information Clearinghouse
• HUD User: Bibliographic Database
• State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, Census Bureau
• County and City Data Book, Census Bureau
• American Community Survey, Census Bureau
• Selected Historical Decennial Census: Urban and Rural Definitions and Data, Census Bureau
• Data Sets, HUD
• Housing, Census Bureau
• Comprehensive Housing Market Analysis, HUD
• State of the Nation's Cities: A Comprehensive Database on American Cities and Suburbs, Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers
• State of the Cities (National Urban Policy Report), HUD
• Sprawl City
• Sprawl and Urban Development, archived full-text articles, The Atlantic Online

Atlases, Maps, Gazetteers ...

• See also: Atlases, Maps, and Gazetteers Main Page
• See also: By Place Name / Area, United States
• US Historical City Maps, Perry Casteñeda Map Collection
• Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929, Library of Congress

By Place Name / Area

• Museum of the City of San Francisco
• Encyclopedia of Chicago
• Indiana Association of Cities and Towns
• Planning Glossary of Terms, Division of Planning, City of Indianapolis
• Downtown Design Guidelines, Report of the Task Force to Enhance Bangor's [Maine] Future Architectural Character, May 17, 2006
• Traffic Counts by City, Massachusetts Highway Department
• Boston Redevelopment Authority
• A Pattern Book of Boston Houses, Boston Redevelopment Authority
• MetroBoston DataCommon
• New Hampshire Community Profiles, Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau, New Hampshire