The Urban Portal

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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.

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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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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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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 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.

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Center for Urban Dialog and European Policy

The Center for Urban Dialogue and European Policy was established in 1995 by the Vienna Municipality with the basic intention to give support to the Vienna city government and administration in all issues relating to the EU integration process and the competition between European business locations.

Future work will focus mainly on three themes of the political and societal ''project Europe'': the enlargement of the Union with all its different aspects; the reinforcement of the Urban Agenda in thought and action of the Union; and the development, or improvement, of European democracy.

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Center for Urban History (Antwerp)

University of Antwerp
The Centre for Urban History at the University of Antwerp (CSG) strives to investigate important aspects of urban culture, economy, religion, politics and institutions from the Middle Ages to the present, in relation to each other and to non-urban structures. Specific research topics on which the Centre places particular emphasis include civil society and urban identities, material culture and urban renaissances; the role of cities as centers of knowledge, creativity and innovation; economic growth and social inequality; migration and urban networks; and the urban living environment in the broadest sense. The geographic emphasis rests on north-western Europe, but always in an international and comparative perspective.

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Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Ukraine)

As an institute of historical scholarship, we seek to offer fresh intellectual impulses and help abandon dated questions and preconceived answers. By information and open discussion, we try to help prevent history from being abused for political ends. Through conferences, seminars and exhibitions we hope to promote scholarly and cultural exchange.

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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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Cities Alliance

The Cities Alliance is a global partnership for urban poverty reduction and the promotion of the role of cities in sustainable development.

The Cities Alliance prioritizes support to cities, local authorities, associations of local authorities and/or national governments that are committed to:
• Improving their cities, and local governance, for all residents;
• Adopting a long-term, comprehensive and inclusive approach to urban development;
• Implementing those reforms necessary to effect systemic change, and to achieve delivery at scale; and
• Decentralizing resources to empower local government

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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: 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, 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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Communication and the City: Voices, Spaces, Media

June 14–June 15, 2013
University of Leeds and the Urban Communication Foundation
Leeds, UK

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Council for European Urbanism

The Council for European Urbanism is dedicated to the well being of present and future generations through the advancement of humane cities, towns, villages and countryside in Europe. 

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Creative City Network of Canada

Municipalities are playing a growing role in the development of arts, culture and heritage in Canada. The Creative City Network of Canada (CCNC) is an organization of municipal staff working in communities across Canada on arts, cultural and heritage policy, planning, development and support.

The CCNC exists to connect and educate the people who do this work and share this working environment so we can be more effective in cultural development in our communities. By sharing experience, expertise, information and best practices, members support each other through dialogue, both in person and online.

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Cultural and Social Perspectives on Political Studies and International Relations

May 23–May 25, 2013
Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark

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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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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.

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European Institute for Comparative Urban Research

The European Institute for Comparative Urban Research (Euricur) aims to gain a deeper understanding of how cities develop and how they are managed. To that end Euricur initiates and carries out studies on strategic urban issues in response to the challenges cities and metropolitan regions face.

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European Urban Knowledge Network

The European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) shares knowledge and experience on tackling urban issues. The key objective is to enhance the exchange of knowledge and expertise on urban development throughout Europe, bridging urban policy, research and practice. Thirteen EU Member States (National Focal Points, NFP), EUROCITIES, the URBACT Program and the European Commission participate in this European initiative. The EUKN Secretariat is housed at Nicis Institute in The Hague.

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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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German Environmental Information Portal

Lower Saxony Ministry of Environment and Climate Protection
The German Environmental Information Portal contains official German environmental data, including the latest news and data concerning an environmental event. The Portal also contains information about intended or passed laws concerning renewable energy. Users are able to search multiple sources simultaneously, including websites, documents, metadata and digital maps with focus on environmental information and contains environmental databases from the federation, the German federal states and local authorities. 

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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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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.

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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. 

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Globalization and World Cities Research Network

Centred in the Geography Department at 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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Historypin

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

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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. 

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How to deal with natural disasters in cities?

In January of 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook the Caribbean nation of Haiti, causing the deaths of more than 200,000 people. The catastrophe heavily affected Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. A new report by foreign policy analyst Elizabeth Ferris discusses Port-au-Prince as a case study on how scholars and policy makers should help cities prepare for and deal with the aftermath of natural disasters.

May 01, 2012

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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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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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International Network for Urban Research and Action

The basic purpose of the Network is to develop and promote the interaction of social and environmental urban movements with research and theoretical anlysis. INURA brings together theorists and practitioners sharing a common, critical attitude towards contemporary urban development. The Network wishes to maintain an informal and commmitted approach to its work.

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International Urban Development Association

INTA is an unparalleled network bringing together the major actors in urban development: policymakers of national, regional and local government; business leaders in real estate development, construction, engineering, service provision, product development; preeminent thinkers and research institutes; influential architecture and urbanism firms, to jointly establish new parameters for sustainable and integrated development of urbanized areas.

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Is sub-Saharan Africa becoming urbanized?

Research on urban growth has traditionally focused on the Western metropolis. In recent years, scholars have started to examine the growth patterns of cities in other regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa, and to question the universality of the Western model of urban development. While earlier data had led many scholars to conclude that cities in that region are growing at an unprecedented rate, new research has challenged the notion that Africa is fast becoming an urban continent.

April 01, 2012

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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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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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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.

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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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