Urban and Regional Planning
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Talking About Cities
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CityLab: from The AtlanticReporting, analysis and storytelling about cities.
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Goodspeed UpdateBlog written by University of Michigan Assoc. Prof. Rob Goodspeed.
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Guardian CitiesDiscussions on cities hosted by The Guardian and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Next City: Solutions for Liberated CitiesSolutions-based journalism to inform and inspire change in city planning.
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Urban WireBlog of the Urban Institute.
Complete Streets
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National Complete Streets CoalitionNational group working toward improvement of streets for all.
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Complete Streets AtlasShows efforts to adopt complete streets policy across the U.S.
Community Planning Websites
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SEMCOG (Southeast Michigan Council of Governments)SEMCOG promotes efficient local government, helping member communities in the areas of transportation, environment, regional growth, and education
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HUD : Cities, Communities, and NeighborhoodsU.S. Housing & Urban Development lnks to information on civic networking, community organizing, economic development, the environment, and infrastructure.
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Brookings Institute : Metropolitan Policy ProgramOnline publication on urban issues, with links to reports, citations, and abstracts of Brookings Institute publications.
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Center for Neighborhood TechnologyThe Center for Neighborhood Technology promotes public policies, new resources and accountable authorities, which support sustainable, just, and vital urban communities.
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CyburbiaCyburbia contains a selective directory of Internet resources relevant to planning and urbanism. Also included are information about mailing lists and newsgroups, and active blogs.
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Local Initiatives Support CorporationThe LISC Online Resource Library is a web portal to information resources on community development.
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PlannersWebSite with extensive resources and links relating to city and regional planning.
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Project for Public SpacesPPS is dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities. Many resources and images are available from the website.
Databases
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data.census.govdata.census.gov is an online source for accessing population, housing, economic and geographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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EconLitEconLit, published by the American Economic Association, provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature.
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Europa World PlusOnline version of the Europa World Year Book with statistics, political and economic information from over 250 countries.
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North American City ReportsReports and research generated by local government agencies, planning agencies, etc.
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JSTORFull-text access to the archives of 2,600+ journals and 35,000+ books in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.
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MunicodeOnline access to municipal codes to over 1,000 US local governments.
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NewsBank (Access World News)Full text of over 600 US newspapers and over 260 English language newspapers from other countries worldwide.
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Nexis UniFull-text access to over 15,000 sources of news, business, legal, and reference information worldwide.
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PAIS Index (Public Affairs Information Service)Contains references to over 540,000 articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, research and conference reports, publications of international agencies, etc.
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PolicyMapPolicyMap is a US-National web-based Geographic Information System used to understand communities.
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Library of Congress Sanborn Maps CollectionThe Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online Checklist provides a searchable database of the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company housed in the collections of the Geography and Map Division.
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ScienceDirect (Elsevier Journals Online)Contains the full text of more than 1,000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Also includes citations and abstracts only for core scientific journals not published by Elsevier.
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ScopusInternational multi-disciplinary indexing & abstracting database for scientific, medical, technical, and social sciences.
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Web of Science (All Databases)Provides cross-searchable access to content in the sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities.
Michigan Cities
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Last Updated: Nov 25, 2025 2:07 PM
Subjects: Social Sciences
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