- Air Pollution in London
http://www.erg.kcl.ac.uk/london/asp/information.asp?view=howbad
- Mostly contemporary introduction to the topic with excellent links.
(9 Feb 2004)
- Australian Places: A Gazetteer of Australian Cities, Towns and Suburbs
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/index.html
- A touristy short introduction to Australian places, including large cities.Some descriptions (notably Melbourne suburbs) have a valuable narrative, historical text, maps, and photos. Entries are, however, not without errors.
(9 Feb 2004; 17 Nov 2004)
- Autobahn Online
http://www.autobahn-online.de/
- Mostly contemporary materials, but some historical statistics, links, and photos. Largely in German; there is an English version of the homepage.
(9 Feb 2004; 17 Nov 2004)
- California As I Saw It
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html
- This site, subtitled "First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900," consists of the "full texts and illustrations of 190 works [representing approximately 40,000 pages and including more than 3,000 illustrations] documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. It captures the pioneer experience; encounters between Anglo-Americans and the diverse peoples who had preceded them; the transformation of the land by mining, ranching, agriculture, and urban development; the often-turbulent growth of communities and cities; and California's emergence as both a state and a place of uniquely American dreams." Search by keyword or browse the index of authors, subjects, or titles. Part of the American Memory Project, Library of Congress.
(7 Jan 2002)
- Digital Library of Historical Directories
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/
- A digitized library by the University of Leicester of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century local and trade directories from England and Wales.
(9 Feb 2004)
- 'Doing the Pan': Pan-American Exposition 1901 Buffalo, New York
http://panam1901.bfn.org
- A well-organized site with a virtual tour and lots of documents, some of them defensive statements by Buffalonians.
(9 Feb 2004)
 Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (The Garreau Group)
http://www.garreau.com/- Site featuring annotated, full-text versions of Joel Garreau's books (including Edge City: Life on the New Frontier), his biography, and a search engine.
(9 Feb 2005)
-
Historic Pelham (NY)
http://www.historicpelham.com/default.htm
- Site constructed by lawyer and local historian Blake A. Bell contains extensive bibliography and locations (with some links) of historic maps, photos, postcards, and memorials. Detailed historic information presented in articles, book excerpts, a timeline and a virtual tour.
(9 Feb 2005)
- H-Urban
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~urban/
- Comprehensively cross-indexed international (although mostly American) discussion group with lots of reviews (search H-Urban Discussion Logs or push the "review" button). Coverage is uneven, but thoroughly professional. To find other H-Net groups, return to the H-Net home page (http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/). From there you may also search other H-Net discussion group logs (http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/logsearch/).
(28 Jul 2001)
- HUD User: Policy Information and Research Development Service
http://www.huduser.org/
- This HUD resource for housing and community development researchers and is the primary source for U.S. Federal Government reports and information on housing policy and programs, building technology, economic development, urban planning, and other housing-related topics. There is an excellent bibliographic search function and HUD's databases can be searched, including its annual "State of the Cities Report", which includes Census data back to 1970.
(7 Jan 2002; updated 8 Aug 2002)
- National Park Service: Links to the Past
http://www.cr.nps.gov/
- Includes several major websites under this umbrella site that contains rich data on historic places throughout the United States. The site focuses on the preservation, conservation, and documentation of significant historical people, culture, and places, covering such areas as museums, parks, communities, buildings, battlefields and landscapes. One current online exhibit is the "Ancient Architects" (http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/). See also these other National Park Service websites: the National Register of Historic Places and HABS/HAER.
(25 Aug 2002)
- Philadelphia Timeline 1646-1899
http://www.ushistory.org/philadelphia/timeline/index.html
- A quite comprehensive timeline from 1646 to the present, compiled by Rudolph J. Walther for the Independence Hall Association. The ushistory.org, owned by the Independence Hall Association, developed the timeline from excerpts of "Happenings in ye Olde Philadelphia 1680-1900" by Rudolph J. Walther (Philadelphia, PA: Walther Printing House, 1925)
(9 Feb 2004)
- Temple University Libraries Urban Archive
http://www.library.temple.edu/urbana/index.htm
- On-line inventory of a number of collections covering Philadelphia community, business, legal and crime, cultural, educational, health care, labor, planning, political, neighborhood, and women's groups. The archive, established in 1967 as an urban studies research facility to document "social, economic, and physical development of the Philadelphia area from the mid-19th century to the present," uses this website to list the contents of its book, pamphlet, newspaper, manuscript, oral history, photograph, television and audiovisual, and African American collections that largely require on-site research and use. The Manuscripts Collection (http://www.library.temple.edu/urbana/URBMSAB.htm) contains extensive urban documents.
(7 Jan 2002)
- Reviews of Public History Web Sites
http://www.publichistory.org/reviews/index.asp
- This large and growing site by Public History Resource Center has links and reviews for dozens of websites, mostly for the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States, many with urban and almost all with social history themes.
(9 Feb 2004)
- Some Enchanted Evenings: American Picture Palaces
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PALACE/home.html
- An interesting, short description of this topic by Mary Hanlon at the University of Virginia. Relatively few illustrations, but those are of high quality.
(9 Feb 2004)
- University of Illinois Press E-Book Library
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books.html
- The University of Illinois Press, which has published a number of works in labor and urban history, has made a number of its titles freely available as e-books at this site.
(25 Nov 2002)
- Urban History Association
http://www.unl.edu/uha/links.html
- Mostly U.S. group. This poorly maintained site includes organizational information, links and a newsletter.
(23 Jul 2002)
- The Urban Past: An International Urban History
http://www.uoguelph.ca/history/urban/citybib.html
- An international bibliography by well-known Canadian scholar Gilbert Stelter. Last updated in 1997, but still _the_ starting place for an urban bibliography.
(28 Jul 2001)
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