The Urban Portal

50th Percentile Rent Estimates

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Rent estimates at the 50th percentile (or median) for all Fair Market Rent areas provided by the HUD Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) and HUD USER- an information source for housing and community development researchers, academics, policymakers, and the American public.

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American Hometowns

USA.Gov
Visit America's cities, counties, towns, and communities online by searching a state wide directory.  American Hometowns contains detailed directories of city and county home websites and data in all 50 States.   

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American Human Development Project

Social Science Research Council
The American Human Development Project provides easy-to-use yet methodologically sound tools for understanding the distribution of well-being and opportunity in America and stimulating fact-based dialogue about issues we all care about: health, education, and living standards.

AHDP produces national and state reports, as well as thematic briefs and innovative online tools such as the Mapping of the Measure of America, which also includes the City Explorer and Charts

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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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American Planning Association (APA)

APA is an independent, not-for-profit educational organization that provides leadership in the development of vital communities. The American Planning Association was created in 1978 by the consolidation of two separate planning organizations, but its roots go all the way back to 1909 and the first National Conference on City Planning in Washington, D.C.

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Announcing the 2013 Urban Forums

Between 26 April and 11 May 2013, the Network will host four conferences on the University of Chicago campus in Hyde Park to discuss the built environment, globailization and mobility, political networks and health in cities.

November 29, 2012

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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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Best Practices Database in Improving the Living Environment

UN-HABITAT
This searchable database contains over 3,800 proven solutions from more than 140 countries to the common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanizing world. It demonstrates the practical ways in which public, private and civil society sectors are working together to improve governance, eradicate poverty, provide access to shelter, land and basic services, protect the environment and support economic development.

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Boston Streets:  Mapping Directory Data

Tufts University
Boston Streets:  Mapping Directory Data contextualizes the people, places and events that have shaped the city from the years before the American Civil War through 20th-century urban renewal.  

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Built Environment

With an emphasis on crossing disciplinary boundaries and providing global perspective, each issue of Built Environment focuses on a single subject of contemporary interest to practitioners, academics and students working in a wide range of disciplines. Issues are guest-edited by established international experts who not only commission contributions, but also oversee the peer-reviewing process in collaboration with the journal’s editors. Subject areas include: architecture; conservation; economic development; environmental planning; health; housing; regeneration; social issues; spatial planning; sustainability; urban design; and transport. All issues include reviews of recent publications

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Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT)

Since 1978, Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) has promoted urban sustainability—the more effective use of existing resources and community assets to improve the health of natural systems and the wealth of people, today and in the future. CNT is a creative think-and-do tank that combines rigorous research with effective solutions. CNT works across disciplines and issues, including transportation and community development, energy, water, and climate change.

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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 Research

Graduate Center of the City University of New York
The Center for Urban Research organizes research on the critical issues that face New York and other large cities in the U.S. and abroad, collaborates with public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and other partners, and holds forums for the media, foundations, community organizations and others about urban research at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). 

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Center for Urban Studies- University at Buffalo

University at Buffalo
The Center for Urban Studies (CENTER) is a research and community development unit located in the UB School of Architecture and Planning. It's mission is to (1) engage in research that produces knowledge which contributes to understanding and solving the problem of neighborhood distress and building a sustainable urban metropolis (2) develop a model for transforming distressed urban neighborhoods into socially functional communities that are based on the principles of solidarity, collaboration, cosmopolitanism, reciprocity, participatory democracy and social justice, and (3) train students in urban and regional planning with the ability to recreate and rebuild a sustainable metropolis based on socioeconomic justice. 

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Center for Urban Studies- Wayne State University

Wayne State University
The mission of Wayne State University's Center for Urban Studies is to improve understanding of and provide innovative responses to urban challenges and opportunities. Committed to serving Detroit and its metropolitan area, the Center pursues its mission by conducting and disseminating research, developing policies and programs, and providing training, capacity-building, and technical assistance.

The Center participates in defining and influencing local, regional, state and national urban policy. It engages community, government, institutions, and policymakers in collaboration with university faculty and resources to transform knowledge into action.

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Chicago GIS Datasets

The University of Chicago
This page provides links to several ArcView shapefiles for local political boundaries in the Chicago area. It also contains a link to a 1980 tract boundary file for Northeastern Illinois and Northwestern Indiana. 

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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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Cities Centre

University of Toronto
Cities Centre is a multi-disciplinary research institute. The mandate of the Centre is broad: to encourage and facilitate research, both scholarly and applied, on cities and on a wide range of urban policy issues, both in Canada and abroad, and to provide a gateway for communication between the University and the broader urban community.

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Cities in the 21st Century

International Honors Program
Cities in the 21st Century program examines the intentional and natural forces that guide the development of the world’s cities. It combines an innovative urban studies academic curriculum with fieldwork involving public agencies, planners, elected officials, NGOs and grassroots groups in important world cities where exciting changes are taking place.

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Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning

Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy.

The primary aims of the journal are to analyze and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.

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City Institute at York University

York University
The City Institute at York University (CITY) brings together the university’s urban scholars conducting both applied and theoretical research across a broad range of fields and throughout each of its Faculties. This interdisciplinary institute facilitates critical and collaborative research, providing new knowledge and innovative approaches to comprehending and addressing the complexity of the “new city”.

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City of Chicago Data Portal

The City of Chicago’s Data Portal is dedicated to promoting access to government data and encouraging the development of creative tools to engage and serve Chicago's diverse community. Here you’ll find essential data presented in easy-to-use formats to help Chicagoans keep track of how their government is performing and build innovative applications to benefit residents and visitors alike.

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City, Culture, and Society

The 21st century has been dubbed the century of cities - sustainable cities, compact cities, post-modern cities, mega-cities, and more. CCS focuses on urban governance in the 21st century, under the banner of cultural creativity and social inclusion. Its primary goal is to promote pioneering research on cities and to foster the sort of urban administration that has the vision and authority to reinvent cities adapted to the challenges of the 21st century. The journal aims to stimulate a new interdisciplinary paradigm that embraces multiple perspectives and applies this paradigm to the urban imperative that defines the 21st century.

Topics of special interest to CCS include urban economics, cultural creation, social inclusion, social sustainability, cultural technology, urban governance, sustainable cities, creative cities. As a peer-reviewed international journal, CCS welcomes contributions from disciplines including but not limited to economics, business, accounting, planning, political science, architecture, geography, sociology, historiography, cultural studies, population studies and public administration.

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City-Region Studies Centre

University of Alberta
The City-Region Studies Centre (CRSC) is a University of Alberta research unit that engages with communities to explore the nature of towns, cities, and regions.  CRSC is one of the only centres in North America to focus on regional research. To do this, we undertake both engaged and theoretical activities, work with clients, sponsor events, host visiting experts and public lectures, and maintain a global set of links with planners and academics, and cities and institutes. We are the portal to urban and regional teaching and research at the University of Alberta.

CRSC's goal is to increase understanding of the cultural, political, economic interactions and interdependencies within these social spaces and to inform public policy and improve the well-being of citizens.

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CITYNET

For over 20 years, CITYNET (The Regional Network of Local Authorities for the Management of Human Settlements) has committed itself to helping local governments improve the sustainability of human settlements. Starting with 26 members in 1987, CITYNET has grown to become an international organization of more than 100 members in more than 20 countries, most of which are cities and local governments in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Cityscape

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
The goal of Cityscape is to bring high-quality original research on housing and community development issues to scholars, government officials, and practitioners. Cityscape is open to all relevant disciplines, including architecture, consumer research, demography, economics, engineering, ethnography, finance, geography, law, planning, political science, public policy, regional science, sociology, statistics, and urban studies. 

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Colonial and Postcolonial Urban Planning in Africa

September 5–September 6, 2013
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal

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County and City Data Books

University of Virginia
This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books providing users with the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets (subsets only available for 1988-2000). 

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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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Economic and Social Data Service

The Economic and Social Data Service is a national data archiving and dissemination service in the UK which came into operation in January 2003. The service is a jointly-funded initiative sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

The ESDS is a distributed service, based on a collaboration between four key centres of expertise:

UK Data Archive (UKDA), University of Essex
Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) , University of Essex
Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS), University of Manchester
Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR), University of Manchester

These centres work collaboratively to provide preservation, dissemination, user support and training for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. The ESDS provides an integrated service offering enhanced support for the secondary use of data across the research, learning and teaching communities.

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Envirofacts

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Envirofacts is a comprehensive collection of environmental data.

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Environmental Design Library

University of California, Berkeley
One of the premier architecture, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning libraries in North America, the Environmental Design Library is a subject specialty library of the UC Berkeley Library system.

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European Association for Urban History

The European Association for Urban History was established in 1989 with the support of the European Union. The Association organizes conferences every two years. These biannual conferences provide a multidisciplinary forum for historians, sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, art and architectural historians, economists, planners and all others working on different aspects of urban history. Membership in the Association is free of charge, and is demonstrated by repeated active participation at the conferences. The Association supports participation of young scholars by stipends, which cover registration fees, and since 2010 it even offers mobility stipends in a limited number of justified cases. The first conference took place in Amsterdam in 1992.

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Food Environment Atlas

Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture
The Atlas assembles statistics on three broad categories of food environment factors:

Food Choices—Indicators of the community's access to and acquisition of healthy, affordable food, such as: access and proximity to a grocery store; number of foodstores and restaurants; expenditures on fast foods; food and nutrition assistance program participation; quantities of foods eaten; food prices; food taxes; and availability of local foods

Health and Well-Being—Indicators of the community’s success in maintaining healthy diets, such as: food insecurity; diabetes and obesity rates; and physical activity levels

Community Characteristics—Indicators of community characteristics that might influence the food environment, such as: demographic composition; income and poverty; population loss; metro-nonmetro status; natural amenities; and recreation and fitness centers

The Atlas currently includes 168 indicators of the food environment. The year and geographic level of the indicators vary to better accommodate data from a variety of sources. Some data are from the last Census of Population in 2000 while others are as recent as 2009. Some are at the county level while others are at the State or regional level. The most recent county-level data are used whenever possible.

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Forgotten Chicago

The main goal of Forgotten Chicago is to discover and document little known elements of Chicago’s infrastructure, architecture, neighborhoods and general cityscape, whether existing or historical.

Secondarily, the hope is that exposing many of the often overlooked elements of Chicago’s built environment to a wider audience will result in more interest in their preservation. Certainly, much of the content on the site is included mainly for documentation and historical reasons, and of course not every old structure in the city is worthy of being preserved. However, some of the structures included on the site are little known but of important architectural and historical interest. The hope is that their inclusion will raise public awareness and result in their preservation rather than demolition in the future.

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Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies

July 1–July 3, 2013
University of Groningen
Groningen, The Netherlands

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Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy

New York University
The Furman Center is a joint research center of the New York University School of Law and the New York University Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. The Furman Center conducts interdisciplinary empirical and legal research about housing, land use, real estate, and urban affairs. Since its founding in 1995, the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has become a leading academic research center devoted to the public policy aspects of land use, real estate development and housing.

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GaWC Research Network Data

Loughborough University
The Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network provids relational data on world cities that have been neglected by researchers. 

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Geospatial Platform

The Geospatial Platform provides ready access to federally maintained geospatial data, services and applications.  It also provides access to data from our partners across State, Tribal, Regional and local governments as well as non-governmental organizations.

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GIS @ The University of Chicago

The University of Chicago Libraries provide a large collection direct links to national and international GIS data.

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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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Global Chicago Center

Chicago Council on Global Affairs
The Global Chicago Center of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs enhances Chicago’s strengths as a global city and raises awareness – both here and abroad – of Chicago’s global connections. It acts as a catalyst to bring Chicago's diverse global resources closer together and spread information on the city's many global connections.

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Great Cities Institute

University of Illinois at Chicago
The Great Cities Institute sponsors research, service, and educational programs aimed at improving the quality of life of people living in Chicago, its metropolitan region, and other great cities of the world. In carrying out its work the Institute engages closely with government institutions, businesses and their membership organizations, foundations and grant-making agencies, and organizations devoted to the social, cultural, and economic vitality of cities, local communities and neighborhoods. It serves as a research laboratory and meeting place for scholars, policymakers, and citizens who share an interest in finding answers to the question, "What can cities and regions do to make themselves into great places?"

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Greater New Orleans Community Data Center

The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center (GNOCDC) gathers, analyzes and disseminates data to help nonprofit and civic leaders work smarter and more strategically. Operating since 1997, GNOCDC is New Orleans’ sustainable data source – before the storm, throughout recovery and for years to come. A product of Nonprofit Knowledge Works, GNOCDC is one of only two–dozen organizations nationwide chosen to be a National Neighborhood Indicators Partner – local data experts dedicated to community change. GNOCDC is recognized across the country for expertise in New Orleans demographics, disaster recovery indicators and actionable data visualization.

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Has poverty become suburbanized?

For many years, urban scholars considered poverty to be a problem of the inner city; suburbs were traditionally where middle-class Americans moved to in order to escape the disintegrating city center. Using the results of the 2000 and 2010 Censuses, social scientists are beginning to look more closely at suburban poverty, exploring its causes, dynamics, and long-term consequences.

August 01, 2011

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Historypin

Historypin is an internet resource layering historic photographs over the physical spaces in cities where they were taken. 

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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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HUD Geographic Information Systems Data

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) collaborated with the U.S. Department of Interior, Geological Survey (USGS) and Mexican partners to create a binational Internet-based Geographic Information System (GIS) application for four sister cities along the US/Mexico Border. These include El Paso/Ciudad Juarez, Eagle Pass/Piedras Negras, Douglas/Agua Prieta, and Ambos Nogales. For each of the urban areas, the web mapping applications provide statistical and spatial analysis tools to plan for future growth scenarios, estimate infrastructure development costs for the colonias, and supply binational demographic census data for economic growth models.

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HUD Infographics

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
This section of the HUD USER website highlights the housing data available through interactive infographics. In order to show the wealth of information available from HUD USER Data Sets, these infographics seek to present housing data in new and informative ways.

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Hyper Cities

UCLA
HyperCities is a digital research and educational platform for exploring, learning about, and interacting with the layered histories of city and global spaces. Using Google Maps and Google Earth, HyperCities essentially allows users to go back in time to create and explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment.

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IGU Kyoto Regional Conference 2013

August 4–August 8, 2013
International Geographical Union Urban Geography Commission
Kyoto, Japan

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

A groundbreaking forum for intellectual debate, IJURR is at the forefront of urban and regional research. With a cutting edge approach to linking theoretical development and empirical research, and a consistent demand for quality, IJURR encompasses key material from an unparalleled range of critical, comparative and geographic perspectives. Embracing a multidisciplinary approach to the field, IJURR is essential reading for social scientists with a concern for the complex, changing roles and futures of cities and regions.

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Intra-urban dynamics and health: concepts, methods and applications

September 11–September 13, 2013
University Paris Ouest Nanterre la Defense
Paris, France

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Is the future of urbanization the megacity?

The UN reports that the urban population has grown faster than the global rural population for the past fifty years. New York-Newark and Tokyo were the only megacities in the world in 1950. By 1975, the number of such cities had grown to four; by 2000 to eighteen. The United Nations expects 22 megacities worldwide by 2015, of which 16 will be in developing countries.

May 02, 2011

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Journal of Urban Cultural Studies

The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is a new peer-reviewed publication cutting across both the humanities and the social sciences in order to better understand the culture(s) of cities. The journal is open to studies that deal with culture, urban spaces and forms of urbanized consciousness the world over.

Although we embrace a broad definition of urban cultural studies, we are particularly interested in submissions that give equal weight to: a) one or more aspects of urban studies (everyday life, built environment, architecture, city planning, identity formation, transportation…) and b) analysis of one or more specific forms of cultural/textual production (literature, film, graphic novels, music, art, graffiti, videogames, online or virtual space…) in relation to a given urban space or spaces.

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Journal of Urban Design

The Journal of Urban Design is a scholarly international journal which advances theory, research and practice in urban design. There is a growing recognition of the need for urban design in shaping, managing and improving the quality of the urban environment. It is now considered one of the core knowledge components of planning education and practice and is equally important for architectural education and practice. Thus, increasing numbers of architects, planners, surveyors, landscape architects and other professions concerned with the quality of urban development are specialising in urban design.

The Journal of Urban Design provides a new forum to bring together those contributing to this re-emerging discipline and enables researchers, scholars, practitioners and students to explore its many dimensions. The Journal publishes original articles in specialised areas such as urban aesthetics and townscape; urban structure and form; sustainable development; urban history, preservation and conservation; urban regeneration; local and regional identity; design control and guidance; property development; practice and implementation.

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Land Cover Institute

U.S. Geological Survey
Welcome to the U.S Geological Survey (USGS) Land Cover Institute (LCI). The USGS currently houses the institute at the Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The LCI will address land cover topics from local to global scales, and in both domestic and international settings. The USGS through the Land Cover Institute serves as a facilitator for land cover and land use science, applications, and production functions. The institute assists in the availability and technical support of land cover data sets through increasing public and scientific awareness of the importance of land cover science.

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Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Urban Rail Transit Maps

University of Chicago
The maps included on this site roughly illustrate the history of urban rail transit between the 1860s and the 1920s. These years were the heyday of urban rail transit. Virtually every city in the Western world and in its colonial offshoots had street railroads during much or all of this period. Streetcars were drawn by horses in the early years. The invention of the grip cable in 1870s and of electric traction in the late 1880s greatly increased their speed and reliability. By the end of the 19th century, everyday urban life was completely dependent on this mode of transport.

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Life in a Changing Urban Landscape

July 21–July 26, 2013
IGU Urban Commission
Johannesburg, South Africa

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Locating London’s Past

Website allowing users to search a wide body of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London, and to map the results on to a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque's 1746 map.

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LSE Cities

London School of Economics and Political Science
LSE Cities is an international center at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, education and outreach activities in London and abroad. Its mission is to study how people and cities interact in a rapidly urbanizing world, focusing on how the design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment. Through research, conferences, teaching and projects, the center aims to shape new thinking and practice on how to make cities fairer and more sustainable for the next generation of urban dwellers, who will make up some 70 per cent of the global population by 2050.

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Mapping London

Highlighting the best of maps of London. Mapping people, places, data, things

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Mapping Medieval Townscapes

Archaeological Data Service
This resource derives from the Mapping the Medieval Urban Landscape research project which began in 2003 with two years of funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Using mapping as a medium, the project examined how urban landscapes were shaped in the middle ages; the project furthers an understanding of the forms and formation of medieval towns. It is the first project to have used spatial technologies – Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) – as a basis for mapping and analyzing medieval urban landscapes. 

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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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Museum of the City of New York

Museum of the City of New York explores the past of New York and celebrates New York’s heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual transformation.

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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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Neptis Foundation

The focus of Neptis’s work is the understanding of urban regions– their pasts, present conditions, and futures, in local and global contexts. In particular, Neptis’s interest is the design of urban regions: that is, their use of land, their built environments, and their modes of transportation.

The role of Neptis is to carry out nonpartisan research, data collection, mapping, and publication related to the architecture of urban regions, to improve the quality of debate and decisions. The foundation’s mode of operation is to initiate, support, and publish research by leading academics and other experts on aspects of regional urbanism. Neptis does not represent any special interest group.

Neptis’s program of research has produced over 30 published studies, all of which are available to all interested members of the public in various forms – reports, CDs, downloads, maps, and summaries.

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