A 2012 update on the population and density of the world's urban areas.
May 04, 2012
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American Migration Interactive Map
Forbs
Close to 40 million Americans move from one home to another every year. This map shows the migration patterns of residents between counties.
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Atlas of Economic Clusters in London
Loughborough University
This research network focuses upon the external relations of world cities. Although the world/global city literature is premised upon the existence of world-wide transactions, most of the research effort has gone into studying the internal structures of individual cities and comparative analyses of the same. Relations between cities have been neglected by world cities researchers; the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network has been formed to aid in rectifying this situation.
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British History Online (Urban and Metropolitan)
University of London and History of Parliament Trust
British History Online is a source for historial data and documents pertaining to British urban and metropolitan history. The directory includes materials from a variety of subjects and resources including maps, surveys, and official government documents.
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Bronx Data Center
Lehman College
The Bronx Data Center collects and analyzes demographic material related to the Bronx and adjacent areas, in order to provide service to the Lehman community, as well as to cultural, social service, civic, media, and other organizations. The Center focuses on data for very small geographic units (down to the city block), as well as the Bronx as a whole. Historical data going back several decades complement the latest census information. The Center specializes in the graphic presentation of data through computer-generated maps.
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Census UK
Economic and Social Data Service
UK Census data.
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Center for Metropolitan History
University of London
The Centre for Metropolitan History (CMH), established by the Institute in 1988, is one of the world’s leading centers for the study of the history of London and other metropolises. It specializes in innovative research projects, covering a wide range of periods, themes and problems in metropolitan history, publishing the results and data online and in print. The Center runs a seminar, and organizes workshops and conferences on many different topics in metropolitan and urban history.
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Center for Urban and Regional Studies
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Created in 1957, the Center for Urban and Regional Studies is one of the oldest university-based research centers of its kind. The Center's mission is to promote and support within UNC-Chapel Hill, high-quality basic and applied research on urban, regional and rural planning and policy issues. The Center seeks to generate new knowledge of urban and regional processes and problems and ultimately to improve living conditions in our communities. This is done by involving the University's faculty and graduate students in large, multidisciplinary research projects and smaller, more narrowly focused projects. The Center's mission also includes promoting the use of the research it facilitates.
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Center for Urban Policy Research
Rutgers University
The Center for Urban Policy Research conducts basic and applied research on a broad spectrum of public policy issues, including affordable housing, land use policy, environmental impact analysis, state planning, public finance, land development practice, historic preservation, infrastructure assessment, development impact analysis, the costs of sprawl, transportation information systems, environmental impacts, and community economic development.
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Chicago Imagebase
The Chicago Imagebase is a Web-based project aimed at enhancing knowledge about the built environment of the Chicago region. On this site you will find a wide variety of images and other data along with information on how to use this data to study the city.
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Demography HomePage
The Demography HomePage is part of an initiative to identify, document, and provide simple access to demographic information concerning the United States of America. This part describes CIESIN's data holdings and related information. This HomePage consists of a series of cascading hypertext links providing access to national data resources, on-line supporting documentation (codebooks, data dictionaries, citations).
The information contained on this page is organized by major data resource. The source documents will be indexed, allowing for full and/or paragraph text searches. In addition, this page also provides connectivity to many world wide web and gophers sites listed and grouped in four distinct lists.
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District of Columbia Data Catalog
For years the District of Columbia has provided public access to city operational data through the Internet. Now the District provides citizens with the access to 485 datasets from multiple agencies, a catalyst ensuring agencies operate as more responsive, better performing organizations. Use the data catalog to subscribe to a live data feed in Atom format and access data in XML, Text/CSV, KML or ESRI Shapefile formats.
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GIS Lounge
Information and news site about geographic information systems, GPS, cartography, and remote sensing. GIS Lounge publishes items of interest to the geospatial community. GIS Lounge has has sections for job listings, geospatial press releases, and events.
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Honolulu Land Information System
City of Honolulu
The City and County of Honolulu has developed one of the most comprehensive GIS data base for any municipality of its size. The Honolulu Land Information System (HoLIS) is an enterprise-wide system serving over 15 City Departments with land use, permit, tax, infrastructure, and environmental data. Geographically referenced information links existing City records to precise locations on the island of Oahu for spatial query and analysis.
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Current Population Survey
Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
IPUMS-CPS is an integrated set of data from 49 years (1962-2010) of the March Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a monthly U.S. household survey conducted jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Initiated in the 1940s in the wake of the Great Depression, the survey was designed to measure unemployment. A battery of labor force and demographic questions, known as the "basic monthly survey," is asked every month. Over time, supplemental inquiries on special topics have been added for particular months. Among these supplemental surveys, the March Annual Demographic File and Income Supplement (hereafter referred to as the March CPS) is the most widely used by social scientists and policymakers, and it provides the data for IPUMS-CPS.
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International
Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, USA
Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS-USA) consists of more than fifty high-precision samples of the American population drawn from fifteen federal censuses and from the American Community Surveys of 2000-2009. Some of these samples have existed for years, and others were created specifically for this database. These samples, which draw on every surviving census from 1850-2000, and the 2000-2009 ACS samples, collectively constitute the richest source of quantitative information on long-term changes in the American population. However, because different investigators created these samples at different times, they employed a wide variety of record layouts, coding schemes, and documentation. This has complicated efforts to use them to study change over time. The IPUMS assigns uniform codes across all the samples and brings relevant documentation into a coherent form to facilitate analysis of social and economic change.
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Mapping London
Highlighting the best of maps of London. Mapping people, places, data, things
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Miami GIS Web Portal
City of Miami
The City of Miami, Florida's GIS portal, designed to provide residents and stakeholders access to numerous mapping applications with enhanced, visual representation of City parcels, data and services.
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National Historical Geographic Information System
The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2000.
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New York City Zoning Resolution Collection
City of New York, Department of City Planning
A detailed collection of zoning resolutions and ordinances in mid 20th century New York City
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Research Center for Urban Cultural History
University of Massachusetts Boston
The Research Center for Urban Cultural History (RCUCH) premises its work on the multi-disciplinary study of cities as dynamic sites where cultures are generated, renegotiated and transmitted. Housed within an institution of higher learning with a commitment to an urban mission and an exceptionally diverse student body, and located in a city richly endowed with intellectual resources, the RCUCH initiates and facilitates scholarly and teaching projects that explore a wide array of possible links between studies of cities in the U.S. and throughout the world, encompassing both contemporary and historical topics. The Center's educational, scholarly, and outreach activities are directed toward achieving a flexible, comprehensive and innovative approach to urban cultural history in a global context.
The Center's principal focus is on interdisciplinary and collaborative research and teaching in urban cultural history. This field focuses on: the specificity of the urban setting and its environs; spatial definition; demographic and economic shifts; temporal change; cultural exchange and cultural transformation; and discursive and signifying networks created by the production of meaning between groups and populations.
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An interactive map from the Chicago Tribune shows the number of households with same-sex partners in Chicagoland, according to the 2010 Census.
August 16, 2011
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Social Explorer
Social Explorer contains over 18,000 maps, hundreds of profile reports, 40 billion data elements, 335,000 variables and 220 years of data. Interactive mapping and reporting tools let you explore a vast array of demographic data quickly and easily. Available Maps and Reports Include: Census data from 1790 to 2010, American Community Survey (all), Religion data from InfoGroup 2009, Religion data from RCMS 1980 to 2000, Carbon emissions from the Vulcan Project/
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Suburban and exurban areas saw the most growth in the past decade.
May 01, 2012
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Travel, Tourism, and Urban Growth in Greater Miami
The growth of cities stems in large part from efforts by local boosters to promote them as ideal locations for work, leisure, and residence. Nowhere is this more essential than in locations whose development depends on tourism. Developers and tourism promoters are key "sellers" of the urban fantasy, and their ideas both animate the public's desires, and express general beliefs, trends, and tendencies in how the city is viewed.
These expressions can be found in promotional material, but also in design and architecture, the planning of new communities, the formation of historic and tourist districts, the use of natural landscapes, the artistic markers of diverse ethnic districts; in short, the visible symbols with which a place presents itself.
Miami embodies many of these trends that have shaped travel, tourism, and urban growth in the last century. Miami was built on promotionalism, on selling the image of paradise through new forms of advertising and media emerging at the turn of the century. Promoters developed fantastic sketches and drawings of tropical fantasylands, places with alluring names like Opa Locka and Coral Gables, whose themed designs represented early models for idealized cities that would be epitomized with the advent of Disney World and, recently, Celebration, Florida.
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Visualizing Urban Geographies
National Library of Scotland
Visualising Urban Geographies is a project that provides mapping tools for historians. It enables them to use digitized and geo-referenced maps in conjunction with historical information based on either addresses or districts. This spatial dimension enriches historical understanding and analysis, and can also be applied to other subject areas. The focus on Edinburgh is deliberate: to explore the potential of the mapping tools where there is available data and a wide range of suitable maps.
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