WWW resources for Urban Social Geography

Adapted and from http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/knox

List of usefull sources related to urban social geography accessible online.

Note: if you cite Internet-based material in your written work, it is important to cite the specific URL (Uniform Resource Locator – usually known as the address) and the date on which the material was accessed.

 

Geographical websites

http://www.aag.org/

The Association of American Geographers website has many useful hyperlinks, including a link to the Speciality Group on Urban Geography.

http://www.rgs.org/

The website for the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers. It provides urban-related hyperlinks.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

The National Geographic Society website contains information relating to cities.

 

Images of various cities

The following electronic photo galleries provide images of cities:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/siteindex/photogallery/

http://www.urbancartography.com/

http://greatmirror.com/

http://earth.google.com/

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html

http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/Images.htm

http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/Europe1.html

http://nationalmap.gov/gio/viewonline.html

http://www.georesources.co.uk/

 

Chapter- related websites

Note: although listed in order of relevance to the chapters in Urban Social Geography (Knox, Pinch 2006, 5^th ed), the following websites usually contain material that is related to more than one chapter.

 

Social geography and the sociospatial dialectics

http://www.mi.vt.edu/

The website of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech. It provides information on their research projects and linking with numerous urban planning issues.

http://www.urban.org/

The Urban Institute is a multi-disciplinary research institute established by President Johnson in 1968. It deals with a wide range of planning and urban issues in the US.

http://www.uli.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

Another non-profit research and educational institute linking with many urban issues in US cities.

http://pppolicy.rutgers.edu/cupr/

The website for the Centre for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University.

http://www.usmayors.org/

The website of the US Conference of Mayors has many reports on a wide range of urban issues.

http://www.planetizen.com/

The website of the Planning and Development Network dealing with a wide range of US planning issues.

http://www.economist.com/index.html

Contains a useful search engine to unearth urban issues from the Economist magazine. You need to subscribe to get the full content but a student subscription is good value.

http://www.prb.org/

The website of the Population Reference Bureau contains data relating to urban trends.

http://www.brook.edu/

The website of the Brookings Institution provides information on urban and regional issues as well as numerous other areas of policy.

http://www.newurbannews.com/AboutNewUrbanism.html

An online edition of New Urban News.

http://www.plannersweb.com/

The US Planning Commissioner's Journal website.

 

The changing economic context of city life

http://www.colorado.edu/Sociology/gimenez/section/index.html

Useful for those wanting to find out more about Karl Marx and his work.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/

More on Karl Marx.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/guru/

The Global Urban Research Unit at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne has a website dealing with many urban issues.

http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/

An Emory University website with information on globalization.

http://www.polity.co.uk

A Polity Press website providing links on globalization.

http://www.globalissues.org/

Useful links on global issues.

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/

The Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group and Network based at the University of Loughborough provides information on world cities.

http://www.ilo.org/

The website for the International Labour Organization provides useful information related to work issues.

http://www.iea.org.uk/

The website for the Institute of Economic Affairs contains information related to many of the issues considered in Chapter 2.

http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_33757_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

The OECD's website on the information economy.

http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/

Useful background material on one of the UK's leading 'creative industries'.

 

The cultures of cities

http://www.theory.org.uk/

Website on theory related to cultural studies.

http://www.altculture.org/

A website listing modern cultures, especially those centred around consumption, including film, street fashion, sports and computing.

http://www.culture.gov.uk/

The UK government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport has a website listing its activities in many spheres.

http://www.michel-foucault.com/

Contains many useful links to material on Michel Foucault.

http://www.celebrationfl.com/

The website of the town of Celebration near Orlando, Florida. An example of 'imagineering'.

http://www.sociosite.net/topics/religion.php

Provides links to information on major religions

 

Patterns of sociospatial differentiation

http://whc.unesco.org/sites/cities.htm

Links to UNESCO's Organisation of World Heritage Cities, which was established in 1993 to foster co-operation and information exchange amongst cities facing similar problems throughout the world.

http://www.census.gov/

The website for the US Census Bureau. See also this website http://factfinder.census.gov/ and http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse/ – the system for analysing small area data for cities (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing – TIGER).

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer/

Maps of urban areas in the US.

http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/plue/ddviewer/ddvJava30/index.html

Urban maps can be obtained through Columbia University's Centre for International Science Information Network (CIESIN), Socioeconomic Data and Applications Centre (SEDAC).

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/

The central portal for UK government statistics. From here you can navigate to the relevant field of interest. See also http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/ – the system for analysing small area data for cities.

http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/about/introduction.asp

Links to Qualidata, the University of Essex archive for qualitative data.

http://www.dh.gov.uk/Home/fs/en

The UK's Department of Health has much data relating to health and inequality.

http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/news/index.htm

The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London has a website with much information on GIS and virtual models of cities.

http://www.citysearch.com/

Information on individual cities can be found on this website.

http://www.urbanpoverty.net/

Maps of urban poverty in US cities can be generated from this website.

 

Spatial and institutional fremeworks: citizens, the state and civil society

http://www.sociosite.net/topics/activism.php

Another guide to social movements and more.

http://www.nlc.org/

The website for the National League of Cities in the US contains information on policies that affect cities.

http://www.metrocouncil.org/

The website for the US Metropolitan Council.

http://www.lga.gov.uk/

The UK's Local Government Association.

http://www.lgiu.org.uk/

The UK's Local Government Information Unit.

http://www.nlgn.org.uk/

The UK's New Local Government Network.

http://www.electoralcommission.gov.uk/

The UK's Electoral Commission, for issues connected to voting.

http://www.lddc-history.org.uk/

Although disbanded in 1998, the website of the LDDC (London Docklands Development Corporation) contains much useful information.

https://datasf.org/

An example of a US local government using the power of the web to make avialble large amounts of data

 

Structures of building provision and the social production of urban environment

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/home.html

The website for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) contains many publications on housing issues.

http://uli.org/

The website for the Urban Land Institute (ULI) contains research on real estate development in US cities.

 

The social dimension of modern urbanism

http://www.albany.edu/mumford/

The website for the Lewis Mumford Center at the University at Albany contains publications and reports on diverse urban issues.

 

Segregation and congregation

http://www.irr.org.uk/

The website for the UK's Institute of Race Relations provides much information on race issues.

http://www.runnymedetrust.org/

The Runnymede Trust is an NGO focussing on ethnic issues.

http://www.minorityrights.org/

Minority Rights Group International is another NGO focussing on the rights of ethnic groups.

http://www.asiansociety.co.uk/

A website listing many aspects of Asian culture in the UK.

http://www.uu.nl/uupublish/onderzoek/onderzoekcentra/ercomer/24638main.html

The European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations examines international migration and social exclusion issues.

http://www.islam.com

Information on Islam.

http://www.islamicity.com/

More information on Islam.

http://www.torah.org/

A guide to Jewish teachings.

http://www.himalayanacademy.com/

Information on Hinduism.

http://www.vatican.va/

The website for the Vatican. Contains information on Roman Catholicism.

 

Neighbourhood, community and the social construction of place

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_science

This website contains information on key thinkers in the social sciences.

http://www.acorn.org/

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is the largest US community organization, representing low and moderate income families in 45 US cities.

http://www.neighbourhoodcentre.org.uk/

The UK's Economic and Social Research Council has a Centre for Neighbourhood Research, which aims to advance the theoretical and empirical understanding of neighbourhoods.

 

Environment and behaviour in urban settings 

http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/library/links/criminology.html

A University of Cambridge webpage with numerous links on criminology.

http://www.nicic.org/

This website for the US Department of Justice's National Institute of Corrections also contains links and information on criminology.

http://www.crime.org/links_intern.html

A source of data on international crime.

 

Some notable crime mapping sites:

www.justicemapping.org

http://maps.met.police.uk

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jdi/crime

http://sanfrancisco.crimespotting.org/

http://oakland.crimespotting.org

 

 

Bodies, sexuality and the city

http://www.qrd.org/qrd/

Contains links to information relating to many gay issues.

http://www.people.ku.edu/~jyounger/lgbtqprogs.html

A University of Kansas website linking courses in the US and Canada on gay and lesbian issues.

http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm

A website with information on the Americans with Disabilities Act.

 

Residental mobility and neighbourhood change

Refer to the websites for chapters 1 and 4.

 

Urban change and conflict

http://www.jrf.org.uk

The website for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation provides useful information relating to poverty.

http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/social_exclusion_task_force.aspx .

The Social Exclusion Unit of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

http://www.lowpay.gov.uk/

The UK's Low Pay Commission.

http://policylibrary.com

A guide to social policy issues.

http://www.unaids.org/en/

Information on AIDS.

http://www.grida.no/

A United Nations (UN) website with many hyperlinks to environmental issues connected to cities.

http://www.sustainable.org/

The Sustainable Communities Network in the US has a website with numerous reports and urban case studies.

http://www.unhabitat.org/programmes/sustainablecities/default.asp

The UN-Habitat Sustainable Cities Programme fosters information exchange on issues related to sustainable city development throughout the world.

http://www.foe.co.uk/

Friends of the Earth – a major environmentalist group.

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/

Greenpeace – another major environmentalist group.

http://www.bestpractices.org/

A website spreading information on the best ways of solving urban problems.

 

Whither urban social geography?: recent developments

http://www.intoronto.com/cities/

The Virtual Cities Directory is a collection of three-dimensional representations of cities around the world.

http://worldfilm.about.com/mbody.htm?once=true&

This website provides links to major websites on world films.

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/

The website for the US Department of Homeland Security, established after 9/11.