Resources

 

Urban affairs - general

Urban Institute

Brookings Institute: cities and suburbs

Smart City (public radio)

 

Urban inequality and segregation

Metropolitan racial-ethnic change - Census 2000 (Lewis Mumford Center, SUNY Albany)

The state of public school integration - Brown v. Board of Education at 50 (Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences, Brown University)

Windows on urban poverty (Paul A. Jagorsky, University of Dallas-Texas)

Uniform crime reports data: 1990-2002 (University of Virginia Library)

 

Housing

Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Researcher (US Department of Housing and Urban Development).

 

Architecture and planning

Cities of the World (University of Wisconsin Digital Libraries Collection)

Cities and buildings database (University of Washington Libraries Digital Collection)

A digital archive of American architecture (Boston College)

Congress for the New Urbanism

Urban Planning, 1794-1918: An International Anthology of Articles, Conference Papers, and Reports (John W. Reps, Cornell University)

Planetizen: The Planning & Development Network

Project for Public Spaces

 

Development and sustainability

Urban Ecology

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Smart Growth

Smart Growth Online

Sprawl City

SURBAN - database on sustainable urban development in Europe (European Academy of the Urban Environment)

 

Urban cultures

Cultures of cities: A new data bank (Planum: European Journal of Planning Online)

America's Most Literate Cities (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)

Ruavista: Signs of the City (France)

 

Global cities

Global Urban Research Institute (University of Newcastle School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape)

UN Habitat: Global Campaign on Urban Governance

 

Urban history

Historic cities (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Art of the First Cities (New York Metropolitan Museum of Art)

 

United States cities and regions

Social Explorer: interactive data maps of US Census 1940-2000 (Queens College)

Population of the 100 largest cities and other urban places in the United States: 1790-1990 (US Census Bureau)

American on the Move (New York Museum of Natural History)

 

Metropolitan New York City

Map NY social indicators (Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences, Brown University)

Community profiles (New York Times, Real Estate section)

 

Poughkeepsie and Mid-Hudson Valley

Poughkeepsie Research Archive (Vassar College Library)

2000 Census data for the City of Poughkeepsie

City of Poughkeepsie Transit System

Poughkeepsie Community Calendar (Chamber of Commerce)

 

Vassar College Urban Studies Program

Home page

Requirements for the major or correlate

URBS courses (from Vassar catalogue)

 

Main
Page
Description
Requirements
Texts
 Blackboard
Schedule