North American City Reports
- North American City ReportsDocuments collection includes reports from over 600 North American city and urban agencies. Includes some regional documents also. Full-text reports on issues such as immigration, climate change and sustainability, transportation and urban planning. Includes budgets, case studies, planning documents.
Archive is not complete as of January 2023, but is growing quickly, adding about 20,000 new reports per year. Based on the Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD). Part of the Global Think Tanks collection of Policy Commons.
Municipal Ordinances
- Michigan Municipal Codes in Nexis UniList of ordinances and codes from cities in Michigan from Nexis Uni
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Select Legal, then Statutes and Legislation, and then Municipal Codes
City Websites
U.S. Cities - Select state, then city.
Subject Headings
Ann Arbor
- City MapsUniversity of Texas library list of links to selected U.S. and international city maps.
Data on City Governments
- The Municipal Year BookData and articles on local government including salaries and expenditures
- County and City Data Book1949 - 2007 in print and selected issues online. Census data on age, agriculture, births, business establishments, climate, construction, crime, deaths, earnings, education, elections, employment, finance, government, health, households, housing, income, labor force, manufactures, population, poverty, race and Hispanic origin, social services, and water use
Books
City bound: How states stifle urban innovation; 2008
Hatcher Graduate: JS 348 .F78 2008
The profession of local government management: Management expertise and the American community; 1989
Hatcher Graduate: JS 344 .C5 G691 1989
Comparative urban politics: Power and the city in the United States, Canada, Britain, and France; 1991
Hatcher Graduate: JS 331 .K431 1991