U.S. Housing & Urban Development lnks to information on civic networking, community organizing, economic development, the environment, and infrastructure.
The Center for Neighborhood Technology promotes public policies, new resources and accountable authorities, which support sustainable, just, and vital urban communities.
Cyburbia contains a selective directory of Internet resources relevant to planning and urbanism. Also included are information about mailing lists and newsgroups, and active blogs.
Online podcasts of a conversation between Carol Coletta of the Knight Foundation and a community leader taking an in-depth look at urban life, the people, places, ideas and trends shaping cities.
The Atlas of Urban Expansion is an open-source online resource with maps, satellite images, and data on spatial changes in cities around the world. The new database is a partnership of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, UN-Habitat, and New York University.
Contains references to over 540,000 articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, research and conference reports, publications of international agencies, etc.
Sanborn maps, large-scale plans of a city or town, were created to assist fire insurance companies assess the risk associated with insuring a particular property. This collection includes 660,000 maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.
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.