Web Links - Chapter 16
Urbanisation
Website Description
Causes of urbanisation, million cities, counter-urbanisation, urban problems in MEDCs and LEDCs, London Docklands as an example of inner city redevelopment.
The website for the UN-HABITAT, which is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
A map library offering many electronic maps for the USA.
Cyburbia, the Internet's oldest portal site for urban planners and others interested in cities and the built environment, it contains a selective directory of Internet resources relevant to planning and urbanism. Cyburbia also includes information about mailing lists and newsgroups, and it hosts a very active bulletin board and image hosting gallery.
This is the website for the National League of Cities. The National League of Cities is the oldest and largest national organization representing municipal governments throughout the United States. Its mission is to strengthen and promote cities as centers of opportunity, leadership, and governance.
The Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in urban areas across Canada and internationally. In their website you can access discussions on Canadian and International programs. You can find information about upcoming events and you may also access the various research publications.
The website for the Urban Land Institute. The ULI attempts to provide responsible leadership in the use of land in order to enhance the environment.
This website provides provides data for individual Metropolitan Areas, Central Cities, and Suburbs, as well as detailed demographic and economic characteristics of the population. Also included are the latest unemployment rates, information on Jobs, Business Establishments, and Average Pay in the 1990s and data on violent and property crime rates collected by the FBI. (Contains only US data).
This website is "an interactive program developed by the United Nations CyberSchoolBus. Its six intense units of clear writing, exciting information and great images give you the best overview of urbanization—its history, its potential, its problems... You can focus on just one part of the curriculum—say, the profiles of major cities, or an activity on population density—or you can take all 6 units as a whole."
