A case study in Portland examines food stamp customers' perception of farmers' markets.
December 06, 2011
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
A Connecticut gas station will be converted into a community health center.
January 12, 2012
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
A new study suggests that the brains of urban and rural dwellers operate differently.
July 15, 2011
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
A new report assesses the challenges that transit-oriented development poses to community health.
February 06, 2012
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A new report suggests that town planning and public health must be integrated to ensure healthy communities.
January 31, 2012
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A private ambulance company in India charges premiums to middle-class users in order to subsidize care for the poor.
November 04, 2011
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African Center for Cities
University of Capetown
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) is an interdisciplinary research and teaching program focused on quality scholarship regarding the dynamics of unsustainable urbanization processes in Africa, with an eye on identifying systemic responses.
Filed under: Organizations
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.
Filed under: Data
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
Filed under: Links
Urban farm activists in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, launch a collaborative website to share information about urban gardens throughout the city as a way to increase interest in urban agriculture.
May 31, 2011
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
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
Filed under: Issues
Annual Population Survey UK
Economic and Social Data Service
The Annual Population Survey (APS) represents a major survey which comprises key variables from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), all the LFS boosts and the APS boost. For the first time the APS will provide survey data that can produce reliable estimates at local authority level. Key topics in the survey include education, employment, health and ethnicity.
The APS combines results from five different sources: the Labour Force Survey; the English Local Labour Force Survey; the Welsh Labour Force Survey; the Scottish Labour Force Survey; and the Annual Population Survey Boost Sample.
Filed under: Data
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.
Filed under: Links
British Household Panel Survey
Economic and Social Data Service
The British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) is carried out by ISER at the University of Essex. The main objective of the survey is to further understanding of social and economic change at the individual and household level in Britain, to identify, model and forecast such changes, their causes and consequences in relation to a range of socio-economic variables.
The BHPS provides information on household organiaation, employment, accommodation, tenancy, income and wealth, housing, health, socio-economic values, residential mobility, marital and relationship history, social support, and individual and household demographics.
Filed under: Data
The Brooklyn Food Coalition surveys community members to build a comprehensive map of food sources in the neighborhood.
March 07, 2011
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A recent study finds that nursing home closures are located disproportionately in Black and Latino communities.
March 11, 2011
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Census UK
Economic and Social Data Service
UK Census data.
Filed under: Data
Center for Health and the Social Sciences
University of Chicago
Center encouraging interdisciplinary health and social science research at the University of Chicago.
Filed under: Organizations
Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
University of Chicago
Center at the Harris School focused on trans-disciplinary research and training on achievement, health, and well-being across the lifespan.
Filed under: Organizations
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.
Filed under: Organizations
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.
Filed under: Organizations
Center for Urban and Community Studies
University of Toronto
The Center for Urban and Community Studies (CUCS), established in 1964, promotes and disseminates multidisciplinary research and policy analysis on urban issues.
The Centre's activities contribute to scholarship on questions relating to the social, economic and physical well-being of people who live and work in urban areas large and small, in Canada and around the world.
Filed under: Organizations
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.
Filed under: Organizations
Center for Urban Initiatives and Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Milwaukee Urban Archive is designed as a catalogue of research studies and reports focused on greater Milwaukee and Southeastern Wisconsin. Each catalogued item provides bibliographic information, content abstract, source and, where possible, an electronic link to the report. The catalogue is organized by topical categories.
Filed under: Organizations
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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Center for Urban Schooling
University of Toronto
Since its inception, the Centre for Urban Schooling has been involved in a number of research projects and program activities at the school, community, and government levels. CUS will continue to broaden its research agenda, both locally and globally, in order to contribute to the ever-growing discussion about urban education around the world.
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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.
Filed under: Organizations
Centre for Research on Inner City Health
St. Michael's Hospital
The Centre for Research on Inner City Health (CRICH) is dedicated to reducing health inequities through innovative research that supports social change. We conduct research to better understand the linkages between poverty, social exclusion, and poor health. And we work in partnership with community agencies and decision-makers to evaluate population health interventions to improve health outcomes for inner city populations.
Filed under: Organizations
Chicago Health and Social Life Survey
National Opinion Research Center
Survey of Chicago residents' sexual behavior, asking about: recent partners, partners in last 12 months, sexual orientation, exposure to sexual activity as a child, domestic violence, social networks, attitudes toward sexuality, exposure to forced sexual contact, use of birth control methods and neighborhood characteristics.
Filed under: Data
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.
Filed under: Organizations
City Mayors
Cities are shaping today's social, cultural, economic and technological agendas. They compete, learn from each other and act together. The City Mayors Foundation was established in 2003 to promote, encourage, and facilitate good open and strong local government.
Filed under: Links
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.
Filed under: Data
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.
Filed under: Journals
CityMatCH
CityMatCH is a freestanding national membership organization of city and county health departments' maternal and child health (MCH) programs and leaders representing urban communities in the United States. The mission of CityMatCH is to improve the health and well-being of urban women, children and families by strengthening the public health organizations and leaders in their communities.
Filed under: Organizations
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).
Filed under: Data
Data Driven Detroit
Data Driven Detroit (D3) provides accessible, high-quality information and analysis to drive informed decision-making that strengthens communities in Southeast Michigan.
D3 believes that direct and practical use of data by grassroots leaders and public officials promotes thoughtful community building and effective policymaking. As a “one-stop-shop” for data about the city of Detroit and the metro area, D3 provides unprecedented opportunity for collaboration and capacity building in Southeast Michigan.
Filed under: Data
Data SF (San Francisco)
City of San Francisco
DataSF is a central clearinghouse for datasets published by the City & County of San Francisco. The site allows you to find datasets in several ways: general search, tags/keywords, categories, and rating. The goal is to improve access to city data through open machine-readable formats. While the number and quality of datasets is increasing, we recognize there is much more that we can do. You can help by rating and commenting on existing datasets or by telling us what datasets we should make available to the public.
Filed under: Data
Data.Seattle.Gov
City of Seattle
The purpose of Data.Seattle.Gov is to increase public access to high value, machine-readable datasets generated by various departments of Seattle City Government.
Filed under: Data
DataPlace
DataPlace is an easy-to-use source of U.S. housing and demographic data from the census tract to the national level. The cite currently contains data from the 1990 and 2000 Censuses, as well as home mortgage, Section 8, and housing needs data. There is useful directory and users can create their own maps. Included topics are mortgage lending, income and employment, housing, health, social and demographic, education, arts, and federal expenditures.
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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.
Filed under: Data
European Healthy Cities Network
World Health Organization
The WHO European Healthy Cities Network consists of cities around the WHO European Region that are committed to health and sustainable development: more than 90 cities and towns from 30 countries. They are also linked through national, regional, metropolitan and thematic Healthy Cities networks. A city joins the WHO European Healthy Cities Network based on criteria that are renewed every five years.
Filed under: Organizations
The Economist challenges the claim that food deserts are clearly to blame for poor diet.
July 25, 2011
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
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.
Filed under: Links
Global City Indicators
The Global City Indicators Program provides an established set of city indicators with a globally standardized methodology that allows for global comparability of city performance and knowledge sharing. This website serves all cities that become members to measure and report on a core set of indicators through this web-based relational database.
Filed under: Links
Global Health Initiative
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago Global Health Initiative's mission is to collaborate with communities locally and globally to democratize education, increase service learning opportunities, and advance novel, transdisciplinary, and sustainable solutions to improve health and well being while reducing global health disparities and inequities.
Filed under: Organizations
Carolyn Stephens examines the relationship between inequality and urban health in Environment and Urbanization.
April 22, 2011
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
Homeless Hub
Building on the success of the Canadian Conference on Homelessness (2005), the Homeless Hub was created to address the need for a single place to find homelessness information from across Canada. Launched in 2007, the Homeless Hub is a web-based research library and information center representing an innovative step forward in the use of technology to enhance knowledge mobilization and networking. The Homeless Hub has emerged as a place where community services providers, researchers, government representatives, and the general public can access and share research, stories, and best practices.
Filed under: Links
How has climate change affected cities?
The first snow fell early this autumn in the northeastern United States. Yet the somewhat premature winter weather may be deceiving. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, human behavior has contributed to global climate change, and we are likely to face steadily rising temperatures in the future. These record-high temperatures are significantly affecting the health of at-risk populations such as the elderly.
January 01, 2012
Filed under: Issues
How should we design urban parks?
Most major cities have one or more large parks. As geographer Terence Young has explained, parks proliferated across modern cities to help stem the departure of middle-class and affluent residents in the wake of industrialization at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Parks were considered a panacea for social ills as varied as crime, illness, and poor mental health. In recent years, scientists have taken a fresh look at parks and their role in the quality of urban life.
February 01, 2012
Filed under: Issues
IGU Kyoto Regional Conference 2013
August 4–August 8, 2013
International Geographical Union Urban Geography Commission
Kyoto, Japan
Filed under: Events
The Urban Institute releases a report about interventions for the children of depressed mothers living in poverty.
April 14, 2011
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
Initiative for Regional and Community Transformation
Rutgers University
The Initiative for Regional and Community Transformation (IRCT) is a university-based effort that helps community residents and leaders in the public and private sectors frame workable policies that will bolster the political, economic, and social participation of marginalized communities within the larger metropolitan community. The IRCT's vision is inclusive. Not only does it encompass concerns for the poor, but leaders of the Initiative also believe that in order for metropolitan regions to support sustainable and livable communities, all sectors of civil society must be involved and see a shared interest.
Filed under: Organizations
International Society for Urban Health
The International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) facilitates the exchange of perspectives, research methods, and data on the study of disease in urban areas and the effects of urbanization on health.
Filed under: Organizations
Journal of Policy Analysis & Management (JPAM)
Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM)
APPAM founded the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) in 1981 through the merger of two other journals – Policy Analysis and Public Policy. Wiley-Blackwell (formerly John Wiley & Sons) has published JPAM since 1981. The current contract for publishing JPAM runs until the end of 2016. JPAM is published quarterly and is a peer-reviewed research journal. The creation of JPAM fulfilled one of the primary reasons for APPAM's existence: the dissemination of the highest quality, multidisciplinary research in public policy and management. As the Association's journal of record, JPAM's ultimate purpose is building a professional community of scholars and practitioners devoted to more effective policy analysis and public management.
Filed under: Journals
Journal of the American Planning Association
American Planning Association
Since 1935, the quarterly Journal of the American Planning Association has published research, commentaries, and book reviews useful to practicing planners, policy makers, scholars, students, and citizens of urban, suburban, and rural areas. JAPA publishes only peer-reviewed, original research and analysis. It aspires to bring insight to planning the future, to air a variety of perspectives, to publish the highest quality work, and to engage readers.
Filed under: Journals
Life in a Changing Urban Landscape
July 21–July 26, 2013
IGU Urban Commission
Johannesburg, South Africa
Filed under: Events
Living in a poor neighborhood is harmful to residents' health.
December 02, 2011
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
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.
Filed under: Data
London Lives
University of Hertfordshire, University of Sheffield, Economic and Social Research Council, HRI
A searchable resource on crime, poverty, and social policy in London from 1690-1800 featuring 240,000 manuscripts from 8 archives, and 15 datasets, with access to 3.35 million names.
Filed under: Data
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy is a vibrant intellectual community of faculty, master's and Ph.D. students, researchers, and administrative staff striving to improve public policy and practice in the areas of health care, human services, criminal justice, inequality, education, and labor. The work of the Center draws on the worlds of scholarship, policy, and practice to address pressing questions. Over the last twenty years, the Wiener Center has been an influential voice in domestic policy through faculty work on community policing, welfare reform, youth violence, inner city poverty, youth and the low-wage labor market, American Indian economic and social development, and medical error rates.
Filed under: Organizations
Mothers Alone : Poverty and the Fatherless Family, 1955-1966 UK
Economic and Social Data Service
The study explores the lives and experiences of mothers living alone: unmarried, separated, divorced or widowed. The study posed two questions: what is poverty and who are the fatherless? The study asked about housing conditions, homelessness, diet and nutrition, family relations, marriage and marital breakdowns, and the levels and adequacy of community and national assistance. The interviewees were asked about detailed indicators of poverty and also the subjective, felt experience of poverty. The study examined problems families faced as a consequence of both low income and lack of fathers, the causes of their circumstances, and the adequacy of assistance provided by community and national sources.
Filed under: Data
University of Chicago researchers find that moving low-income individuals to lower-poverty neighborhoods leads to significant improvements to their health.
October 21, 2011
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
New report on women's well-being in the top 25 US metro areas.
May 03, 2012
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
New York Community Health Survey GIS Data
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
The Community Health Survey (CHS) shapefiles contain aggregated city-wide rates by United Hospital Fund neighborhoods. The health topics cover a number of areas including physical activity, diabetes, obesity, mental health, and sexual risk factors.
Filed under: Data
New York Epidemiology Services Neighborhood Statistics Datasets
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Health statistics data sets on adult hospitalization, childhood lead poisoning, demographics, health care and preventative services, health status, maternal and child health, and mortality
Filed under: Data
NYC Data Mine
City of New York
This catalog supplies many sets of public data produced by City agencies and other City organizations.
Filed under: Data
Panel Study of Income Dynamics
University of Michigan
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics - PSID - is the longest running longitudinal household survey in the world. The study began in 1968 with a nationally representative sample of over 18,000 individuals living in 5,000 families in the United States. Information on these individuals and their descendants has been collected continuously, including data covering employment, income, wealth, expenditures, health, marriage, childbearing, child development, philanthropy, education, and numerous other topics. The PSID is directed by faculty at the University of Michigan, and the data are available on this website without cost to researchers and analysts.
The data are used by researchers, policy analysts, and teachers around the globe. Over 3,000 peer-reviewed publications have been based on the PSID. Recognizing the importance of the data, numerous countries have created their own PSID-like studies that now facilitate cross-national comparative research. The National Science Foundation recognized the PSID as one of the 60 most significant advances funded by NSF in its 60 year history.
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Policy Studies Journal
American Political Science Association; Policy Studies Organization
As the principal outlet for the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association and for the Policy Studies Organization (PSO), the Policy Studies Journal (PSJ) is the premier channel for the publication of public policy research. PSJ is best characterized as an outlet for theoretically and empirically grounded research on policy process and policy analysis. More specifically, we aim to publish articles that advance public policy theory, explicitly articulate its methods of data collection and analysis, and provide clear descriptions of how their work advances the literature.
Filed under: Journals
Study finds that poor urban residents travel twice as far to the supermarket than those who live in the suburbs.
August 15, 2012
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
Should research on urban poverty take organizations more seriously?
At a recent conference at the University of Chicago, scholars from across the country asked whether it was time to “rethink urban poverty” from a different perspective, one centered primarily on the organizations with which urban residents interact.
March 28, 2011
Filed under: Issues
SickWeather is a crowdsourced map of illness around the world.
February 16, 2012
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
Social Science Review
The School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago
Founded in 1927, Social Service Review is devoted to the publication of thought-provoking, original research on social welfare policy, organization, and practice. Articles in the Review analyze issues from the points of view of various disciplines, theories, and methodological traditions, view critical problems in context, and carefully consider long-range solutions.
The Review features balanced, scholarly contributions from social work and social welfare scholars, as well as from members of the various allied disciplines engaged in research on human behavior, social systems, history, public policy, and social services. The journal welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics, such as child welfare, poverty, homelessness, community intervention, race and ethnicity, clinical practice, and mental health. The Review also features discerning essays and substantive, critical book reviews.
Social Service Review is edited by Michael R. Sosin and the faculty of The School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.
Filed under: Journals
Sociology Data Set Server
A collection of ICPSR sociological data.
Filed under: Data
University of Chicago Professor Stacy Lindau maps South Side health indicators for the University of Chicago Urban Health Initiative, demonstrating how resources from grocery stores and gyms to churches and daycare centers are distributed in the area.
February 22, 2011
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
The Mobile Pantry program in Quincy, Massachussetts, uses a food truck to alleviate hunger in a food desert.
November 08, 2011
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
Two new studies challenge the link between food deserts and obesity.
April 24, 2012
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
THe UK government, in an effort to increase its transparency, has announced it will release data sets on a wide range of topics, including data on the UK criminal courts, transportation network, schools, and the National Health Service.
July 13, 2011
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
UN report finds that both over and under nutrition are serious problems in world cities.
August 23, 2012
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
Urban air pollution will become the biggest cause of premature death.
March 22, 2012
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
Urban Development
World Bank
The Urban Development database contains data on urbanization, traffic and congestion, and air pollution are from the United Nations Population Division, World Health Organization, International Road Federation, World Resources Institute, and other sources
Filed under: Data
Urban Food Policy
A blog about policies, plans, and programs for sustainable urban food systems.
Filed under: Links
Urban Gateway
URBAN GATEWAY is an online community to help cities and urban practitioners across the world unite to share knowledge and take action.
The Urban Gateway is the first web platform of its kind to leverage the energy and resources of the global urban development community. It will allow UN-HABITAT and its external partners to network, exchange knowledge, discuss issues and share opportunities related to sustainable urbanization worldwide.
Filed under: Links
Urban Geography Commission
University of Lausanne
This commission is designed to encourage geographical research on urban systems and on new urban problems, and to further the exchange of findings among urban geographers from many countries. Since cities, with their distinctive processes and problems, are major features of the modern world, it is vital to have a commission that focuses on their characteristics, problems and solutions in a comparative global context. A key aspect of the new commission will be the encouragement of younger scholars to participate in our meetings.
Filed under: Organizations
Urban Health Initiative
University of Chicago
Partnership of individuals and groups in the Chicago medical community to improve the long-term health of people on Chicago's South Side.
Filed under: Organizations
Urban Studies
Urban Studies is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles which deal with every kind of urban and regional problem that is susceptible to social science or other relevant analysis. These range from such problems as urban housing, employment, race, politics and crime, to problems of regional investment and transport. Although most articles published deal with problems located in the advanced industrial societies of Europe and the Americas, important articles dealing with these problems in Asia, the Third World and in Eastern Europe are also published regularly.
Filed under: Journals
West Coast Poverty Center
University of Washington
The West Coast Poverty Center (WCPC) at the University of Washington (UW) serves as a hub for research, education, and policy analysis leading to greater understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty and effective approaches to reducing it in the west coast states. Funded in October of 2005, the Center is one of three regional poverty centers funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Filed under: Organizations
West Philadelphia residents launch neighborhood-based health network to support healthy diet and exercise among community members.
June 23, 2011
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
In Environment and Urbanization, David Sattherthwaite questions why urban health is so poor, even in "developed" cities.
April 26, 2011
Filed under: New & Noteworthy