History 364 Electronic Resources

Census Information

United States Census 2000

http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.html

American FactFinder (Census 2000 data for individual cities and counties) http://factfinder.census.gov/

United States Census (1790-1990) http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/hiscendata.html

United States Historical Census Data Browser (National Demographic Data 1790-1960 Census)

http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

U.S. Demographic Publications

http://www.frey-demographer.org/reports.html

Census and Statistical Data for Michigan

http://www.michigan.gov/census/

Metropolitan Policy Centers

Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program (Census analysis, case studies, policy reports, and much more)

http://www.brookings.edu/metro/

Metropolitan Reform/Institute on Race and Poverty

http://www.irpumn.org/

Sprawl and "Smart Growth"

Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse

http://www.sprawlwatch.org/

Smart Growth Network

http://www.smartgrowth.org/

Congress for the New Urbanism

http://www.cnu.org/

Sierra Club "Stopping Sprawl" Campaign

http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/index.asp

Sprawl City

http://www.sprawlcity.org/index.html

Atlantic Monthly On-Line: Sprawl and Urban Development Articles

(Portland, Robert Moses, Politics, New Urbanism, and much more)

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/sprawl.htm

National Geographic Urban Sprawl Project

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/07/01/html/ft_20010701.3.html

Radical Urban Theory

(Articles focusing on Southern California)

http://www.radicalurbantheory.com/

Cascade Policy Institute (Critic of "Smart Growth")

http://www.cascadepolicy.org/

National Association of Home Builders

http://www.nahb.org/

Celebration, Florida (Disney's New Urbanist Town)

http://www.celebrationfl.com/

Michigan Sprawl, Smart Growth, and Public Policy Resources

Michigan Land Use Institute

http://www.mlui.org/

Michigan Land Use Institute, "Follow the Money: Uncovering and Reforming Michigan's Sprawl Subsidies" (Jan. 2005)

http://www.mlui.org/downloads/UCP4.pdf

Michigan Land Use Leadership Council

http://www.michiganlanduse.org/

Michigan's "Cool Cities" Initiative

http://www.coolcities.com/

Cityscape Detroit

http://www.cityscapedetroit.org/

MOSES—Regional Cooperation in Detroit and Southeast Michigan

http://www.mosesmi.org/

Detroit Renaissance (Business Leaders for Michigan)

http://www.detroitrenaissance.com/

Detroit News Historical Photographs

http://info.detnews.com/photostore/index.htm

Detroit News Special Report: "Where We Stand, 4 Decades after that Fateful Summer" (2007)

http://detnews.com/article/99999999/METRO/706030362/-1/special&template=THEME&theme=METRO-1967RIOTS

Detroit News Special Report: "Fifty Fabulous Years of Motown" (2009)

http://detnews.com/article/99999999/ENT04/90107001/-1/special&template=theme&theme=ENT-MOTOWN

Detroit News Special Report: "50 Ideas to Fix Michigan"

http://detnews.com/article/99999999/OPINION01/90922001/-1/special&template=theme&theme=EDIT-50IDEAS

Detroit News Special Report on the Cost of Segregation (2002, in five parts)

http://www.detnews.com/legacy/specialreports/2002/segregation/

Rearview Mirror (Selected historical articles from Detroit News)

http://detnews.com/section/METRO07

Arbor Update (blog with discussions on local planning and politics)

http://www.arborupdate.com/

Ann Arbor Ecology Center

http://www.ecocenter.org/

Urban/Suburban Policy Reports

Historical Publications of the United States Civil Rights Commission

http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/chrolist.asp

Human Rights Watch, "Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs" (2000)

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/usa/index.htm

Jay Greene and Greg Forster, "Sex, Drugs, and Delinquency in Urban and Suburban Public Schools" (2004)

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/ewp_04.htm

William Frey, "Melting Pot Suburbs: A Census 2000 Study of Suburban Diversity" (2001)

http://www.frey-demographer.org/reports/billf.pdf

Poverty and Race Research Action Council

http://www.prrac.org/

NeighborWorks America (including information on the subprime/foreclosure crisis)

http://www.nw.org/network/home.asp

Metropolis Magazine

http://www.metropolismag.com/

The Next American City

http://americancity.org/

Mike Males—Scapegoat Generation

http://home.earthlink.net/~mmales/

Suburbia: Historical Resources

Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb

http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown.html

Levittown: Building the Suburban Dream

http://server1.fandm.edu/levittown/

Home Economics Archive

http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/h/hearth/browse.html

Good Housekeeping (through 1950)

http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/h/hearth/browse/title/6417403.html

Journal of Home Economics (1909-1993)

http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/h/hearth/browse/title/4732504.html

The American Suburb: Image Collection Index

http://www.yale.edu/amst401a/image_index.html

Photographs of Philadelphia's Garden Suburbs

http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/wh/whloc.htm

Virtual Greenbelt: A New Deal Era Model Suburb in Maryland

http://otal.umd.edu/~vg/

Suburbia: Photographs by Bill Owens

http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/suburbia/home.html

San Fernando Valley: America's Suburb

http://www.americassuburb.com/

National Register: Historical Residential Suburbs

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/publications/bulletins/suburbs/resources.htm

Media/Popular Culture

Prelinger Archives (download rare educational films and advertisements from the 1920s-1980s)

http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger

Patio Culture

http://www.patioculture.net/

The Fifties Index

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/

Twilight Zone Episode Guide

http://tzone.the-croc.com/original-twilight-zone-episode-guide.html

The Official Boondocks Site (Aaron McGruder's comic strip about African-American kids in suburban Chicago)

http://www.boondocks.net/

uComics: Comic Strip Archive

http://www.ucomics.com/

Retro Website

http://www.teacheroz.com/retro.htm

Your Complete Guide To All Things Television

http://www.allyourtv.com/

The Sopranos: Family Values

http://www.the-sopranos.com/

The Simpsons Archive

http://www.snpp.com/

John Hughes' Shooting Locations

http://www.geocities.com/xanderubi/html/john_hughes_shooting_locations.html

Misc.

Segregated Seattle: Restrictive Covenants Database

http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/segregated.htm

The Silent Majority: Hard Hats Riot

http://chnm.gmu.edu/hardhats/homepage.html

Polly Klaas Foundation (Missing Children)

http://www.pollyklaas.org/