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/

 

Urban Census Data Project (Demographic Data for Major Metropolitan Areas from 1970, 1980, and 1990 Census)  

http://www.lemoyne.edu/seal/UCDP1.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 Area Research Corporation (Maps and policy reports, including extensive data on the twenty-five largest metropolitan areas in the U.S.)

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

 

Radical Urban Theory

(Articles about sprawl and also about City of Quartz author Mike Davis)

http://www.rut.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://mosesmi.org/pages/about.shtml

 

Detroit Renaissance

http://www.detroitrenaissance.com/

 

Detroit News Special Report on Suburban Sprawl (2002)

http://www.detnews.com/specialreports/2002/sprawl/index.htm

 

Detroit News Special Report on Mass Transit (2003)

http://www.detnews.com/specialreports/2003/bus/index.htm

 

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

http://www.detnews.com/specialreports/2002/segregation/index.htm

 

Rearview Mirror (Selected historical articles from Detroit News)

http://info.detnews.com/history/index.cfm

 

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/

 

Fannie Mae Foundation

http://www.fanniemaefoundation.org/

 

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/

 

Levittown at Fifty

http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-levittown,0,850235.storygallery?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation

 

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://photo.ucr.edu/california/projects/suburbia/

 

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/twilight1.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/

 

Sopranoland: The Sopranos Fan Mega Site

http://www.sopranoland.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

 

TIME: "The Middle Americans: Man and Woman of the Year" (1969)

http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/film/middle.htm

 

The Silent Majority: Hard Hats Riot

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

 

 "Soldiers of Christ: Inside America's Most Powerful Megachurch" (May 2005) Harpers.org

http://www.harpers.org/SoldiersOfChrist.html

 

Polly Klaas Foundation (Missing Children)

http://www.pollyklaas.org/