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Urban Studies
Databases
Print Indexes
- PAIS International Index REF INDEX H62 .A1 P62
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks
- Biographical Dictionary of Public Administration REF JA61. W54 2001
- County & City Extra: Annual Metro,City, & County Data Book REF HA203. C68
- Encyclopedia of New York City REF F128.3 E75 1995
- Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities & Suburbs REF HT123. E5 1998
- Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures: Cities & Cultures Around the World REF HT 108.5 .E53 2000
- Encyclopedia of Urban Legends REF GR105.34 B78 2001
- Essay & General Literature Index Ref Index A1 .3 .E752
- Guide to Undergraduate & Graduate Education in Urban & Regional Planning REF HT167 .G84
- Handbook of Urban Studies REF HT151 .H318 2001
- New Jersey Municipal Databook REF F131 .N4 2001
- Organizing for Social Change: A Manual for Activists in the 1990s REF JC328.3 .B63 1996
- Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature READY INDEX A1 .3 .R47
- Statistical abstract of the United States HA202 .U53
Copies in Englewood Cliffs and O'Toole Library Reference
- Urban Politics Dictionary REF JS48 .S65 1990
Unless indicated otherwise, all of the above print resources are located at the O'Toole Library, Jersey City Campus.
Selected Internet Resources
- Center for Community Change
- Center for Policy Alternatives
- Center for Urban Policy Research
- City Limits (NY's Urban Affairs News Magazine)
- Demography and Population Studies WWW Virtual Library this site from the Australian National University provides links to international demographic sites.
- Digital Atlas of New York City Dr. William A. Bowen of the Department of Geography at California State University, Northridge, has created a demographic atlas of NYC that shows population and race, ancestry, income and poverty, adult educational attainment, household types, and commuters.
- Food Research & Action Center
- Government Information Sharing Project at Oregon State University has easy-to-use tools for Census data on USA counties, the 1990 Census of Population and Housing, School District Data Book Profiles, Imports & Exports, Regional Economic Data, Earnings, and other data provided by the Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the National Center for Education Statistics and the MESA Group.
- How the Other Half Lives The The Hypertext Edition of Jacob A. Riis's classic study and photo essay on the tennements of New York. Although Riis expresses the casual racism of his day, his book resulted in the destruction of the worst of the tennements and contributed to urban reform movements.
- Institute on Race & Poverty
- International Data Base Demographic data from 227 countries compiled by the US Census Bureau. The data go back to 1950 and have projections to 2050.
- Joint Center for Housing Studies The Center is affiliated with Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government. This site provides housing data and research studies.
- Language Use and English-Speaking Ability: 2000 A Census Department study of the 47 million people in the United States who speak a language other than English at home.
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum An online tour of the museum, along with a 97 page Lower East Side Tenement Museum Encyclopedia
- National Low Income Housing Coalition
- National Priorities Project Database (NPP) "The NPP Database offers state data on socio-economic needs and federal expenditures, and allows you to create customized tables, graphs and reports." Create a graph showing the amount of your state's federal tax dollars that go for the war on Iraq compared to dollars returned in social expenditures.
- National Transportation Statistics 2001 From the United States Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
- Pew Internet and American Life Project Research reports and news stories on the effect of the Internet in America
- POPIN, UN POPULATION Network "Includes statistical tables, software, official documentation of the International Conference on Population and Development and the United Nations Commission on Population and Development..." along with data on world population trends, health data and statistics, and other UN publications.
- POPLINE "the world's largest bibliographic database of family planning and related health and development issues"
- Population Index "Population Index is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. This website provides a searchable and browsable database containing 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000."
- Population Reference Bureau Current human population data and excerpts from publications.
- Population Studies Center Data Archive Links to data sets and software at the University of Michigan
- U.S.Department of Housing & Urban Development
- United States Conference of Mayors
- Urban Institute publishes papers and studies on social policy and urban life.
- Welfare Reform and New York City's Low-Income Population Howard Chernick and Cordelia wrote this Reimers Institute for Poverty Research's Working Paper in which they examined the Current Population Survey in 1994-1995 and 1997-1999 to see what effect welfare reform had on public assistance in New York City
Page maintained by Mark Graceffo
Last updated 06 Sep 2004
email mgraceffo@spc.edu
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