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.)
Sprawl and "Smart Growth"
Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse
Smart Growth Network
Congress for the New Urbanism
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)
Cascade Policy Institute (Critic of "Smart Growth")
National Association of Home Builders
Celebration, Florida (Disney's New Urbanist Town)
Michigan Land Use Institute
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
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)
Ann Arbor Ecology Center
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
Fannie Mae Foundation
http://www.fanniemaefoundation.org/
Metropolis Magazine
The Next American City
Mike Males—Scapegoat Generation
http://home.earthlink.net/~mmales/
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
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
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
The Fifties Index
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)
uComics: Comic Strip Archive
Retro Website
http://www.teacheroz.com/retro.htm
Your Complete Guide To All Things Television
Sopranoland: The Sopranos Fan Mega Site
The Sopranos: Family Values
The Simpsons Archive
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)