Recuros en Internet I : Els Webs Urbans

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• A stronger focus on urban issues at Euro...
  Some Member States regard it as particulary crucial that cities continue to have the prime responsability for policy and action in their local areas and that the identification of appropiate forms of action at different governamental levels should be further debated. This was followed, between 1982 and 1986, by an urban policy programme which in 1986 became the responsibility of the COE's.

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• Birmingham City Council Planning Department (UK)
  (Information about the City Planning Department's work)

• British Urban Regeneration Association BURA Description: The British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) is an independent association which acts as a forum for the exchange of ideas concerned with the regeneration of cities. Contains press releases, details of forthcoming and recent events and contact details.
  Keywords: cities, urban planning, regeneration, built environment
  Available from: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/bura/

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• Centre for Housing Research and Urban Studies, University of Glasgow
  Description: The current academic research programme of the Centre is organised into three areas: housing f inance and economics; housing and urban society; and urban regeneration. Contains information about research interests, course details, staff profiles and a list of publications from the Centre. Keywords:housing, research, urban cities, real-estate, regeneration, sociology.
  Available from: http://www.gla.ac.uk:80/Inter/CHRUS/
• Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths University of London
  Contains local information about the work of the centre, current research, staff, courses and seminars. Keywords: urban studies, urban communities, cities, community policy
  Available from: http://www.gold.ac.uk/cucr/homep.htm
• City and Regional Planning Research Guides (US)
  (Operated by the Environmental Design Library at the University of California, Berkeley, this site provides a series of guides and bibliographies for researchers and practioners in city and regional planning. One of the most comprehensive resources available, the site includes information on topics such as discussion groups, planning history, general plans, urbanisation in the developing world and planning statistics. )
• City Net Description: City.Net is a comprehensive collection of networked information about the World's cities and communities. It claims tocombine the features of an atlas, gazetteer, and almanac, by linking to thousands of sites, often created locally, which include local guide books, maps, newspapers, and information on local government, tourism, and community services. Slight US bias.Index and search engine available. Updated daily.
  Keywords: city, urban, countries of the world, atlas, almanac,
  Available from: http://www.city.net/
• City of Bits (online) (US)
  (William J. Mitchell's (Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT) book "City of Bits", examining the influence of the telecommunications revolution on the city, online. The well produced site is meant as a companion to the hard-copy version by providing links to internet resources dealing with issues mentioned in the text.)
• City politics and Urban Economics
  The authors analyze the coalitions and issues that shape urban politics and policy, as well as the tensions that periodically arise between the conflicting demands of economic growth and political equality. Its attention to private power as a mediating force in urban politics sets this text apart from rest in its field.
• Chapter1-Introduction
  Through the Sustainable Cities Project the Expert Group aims to develop a set of ecological socio-economic and organisational principles and tools for urban management which may be applied in a variety of European urban settings. 1.12 The remainder of this introductory chapter outlines particular features of the European urban system, linking economic, social and environmental issues.
• Commission for the New Towns (UK)
  Description: Commission for the New Towns (CNT), a government agency, is the largest land-owning, real estate organisation in Britain. It is responsible for the management and disposal of land and property of the former development corporations of the 21 English new towns. Server includes details and case-histories of CNT's towns and cities, as well as information on business relocation, planning and development.
  Keywords: urban development, town planning, business relocation, new towns, Milton Keynes,
  Available from: http://www.cnt.org.uk/

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• DCRP Course Description
  Fall 1995:MW 2-3 pm(plus selection meetings Friday 2-3 pm), 112 Wurster (Control#13409). This course seeks to introduce undergraduates to the full scope of urban planning practique and issues. At the same thime, the course will seek to develop sensitivy to the need for the broader perspectives of city problems and planning by paying.
• Development Planning Unit, University College London
  Description: The Development Planning Unit (DPU) is an international centre specialising in academic teaching, practical training, research and consultancy in the field of urban and regional development, planning and management. Contains local information about courses, staff, research and publications. Keywords: development studies, rural development, urban development planning, urbanisation, international housing,
  Available from: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu/

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• ECONbase
  Description: ECONbase is an interactive and searchable database that allows you to search for up-to-date information on new and published articles in 32 Elsevier/North-Holland economics journals. It contains information on articles published after January 1, 1994, and each year about 2,000 articles are covered. For each journal article the service contains the full title of the article, the author(s), author's affiliation, keywords and JEL-codes when available, an abstract, volume / issue / page numbers, as well as the dates for receipt and acceptance of the article, and the publication date of the issue. The Tables of Contents of each journal issue are stored in the Public Section of ECONbase and are freely accessible to all economists. Abstracts, keywords, JEL-codes and search facilities are available only in the Subscriber Section, to which access is controlled. This information is also available as an electronic notification service Contents Alert Economics.
  Keywords:economics, current awareness service, CAS, econometrics, accounting, health, international, financial, labour, monetary,urban,
  Available from: http://www.elsevier.nl/econbase/Menu.html
• Erasmus University of Rotterdam
  (Information about the Urban Department)
• European Urban and Cities
  This server containts information about : a context local action, european sustainable cities report, a stronger focus on urban issues at european level, WebWhacker table of contents, international action for sustainable cities, an european focus...

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• HUDUSER
  Description: The HUDUSER web server is maintained by the Policy Development and Research Office of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. The office is responsible for maintaining current information on housing needs, market conditions, and existing programs, as well as conducting research on priority housing and community development issues. Contains briefing papers, research results and data on US housing market conditions. Also provides access to the HUD USER bibliographic database which contains more than 5,800 full- abstract citations to research reports, articles, books, monographs, and data sources on housing policy, building technology, economic development, urban planning and related fields.
  Keywords: US, housing, communities, urban policy, planning, urban development Available from: http://www.huduser.org
• HUD - US Department of Housing and Urban Development
  Description: HUD is the web server for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. It contains information about theorganisation, research and reports, directives and a searchable index of the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance.
  Keywords: housing policy, US government, urban planning, community issues
  Available from: http://www.hud.gov/

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• Latin American Network Information Center Sociology Page
  Description: The Sociology page of UT-LANIC (The University of Texas Latin American Network Information Center) seeks to bring together information pertinent to the field of sociology in Latin America and the Carribbean. UT-LANICs sociology page includes resources from Latin American universities as well as other electronic resources of regional interest. Additionally, the page includes links from the following sub-fields: housing, population and demograpphy, religion, and urbanization. UT-LANIC provides a host of Internet resources to support research about Latin America. Keywords: Latin America, University of Texas at Austin, UT-LANIC, housing, population, demography, Americas, religion, urbanization, urbanisation,
  Available from: http://lanic.utexas.edu:80/la/region/sociology/
• London Research Centre
  Description: The London Research Centre provides information, research, analysis and consultancy about urban affairs, serving all of London's local authorities, and well as external clients including the government. The server includes details of current research and recent publications and statistics, with contact details where full-text not available. Key areas of research include housing, community care, transport and the environment. Details of databases on these subjects are given.
  Keywords: London, Demography, statistics, Environment, Transport, Housing, Social Research, local government, urban affairs
  Available from: http://www.london-research.gov.uk/index.htm

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• MIT School of Architecture and Planning
  Standard information on faculty and courses.
  For planners:
• The latest issue of PLAN
• Department of Urban Studies and Planning Computer Resource Laboratories (CRL) Contains link to economic, employment, real estate and several census databases.
• Municipia
  The forums are series of telematic conferences dealing with topics relating to urban government, local policies and technological innovation. An official definition of a civic netwok is : a network of computers and modems interconnected via the telephone line to a central computer that provides: information concerning the local community a means of communication a the.

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• Online Planning (UK)
  (This site is dedicated to all the issues relevent to developing the planning system on the Internet. Maintained by Andrew Smith, MSc Student at the Department of City and Regional Planning , University of Wales (Cardiff), the site is both visually impresive and informative. Of particular interest are the developing rated guide to planning internet sites and the list of recommended reading)

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• PAIRC - Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Centre (USA)
  (PAIRC contains links to over 2,300 Web, Gopher and FTP sites with urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture related information. Most links have annotated descriptions. PAIRC also contains information about 110 architecture and planning related mailing lists. An invaluable easy to use resource. Without doubt the best planning site on the net. )
• PTI's Research: The Urban Consortium Tas...
  Frequently, projects result in development of a variety of products(such as guidebooks, or workshops) and programs which save money, increase local revenue, and improvise services. The Urban Consortium Telecomunications and Information Task Force (UCTIFT) was created in 1987 to bring together senior-level officials in telecomunications ond information to develop better management approaches.

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• Regional Studies Association(RSA) (UK)
• Revitallising Cities in Britain and the United States

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• Scn-discuss mailing list archive
  Description: The Sustainable Cities Network mailing list is intended to facilitate debate and discussion between researchers and policymakers interested in sustainable cities. The network is funded by the ESRC and EPSRC.
  Keywords: sustainability, urban technology, cities, environmental change, planning
  Available from: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists-p-t/scn-discuss/
• Second European Digital Cities Conference
  Speakers at the conference will include representatives from a number of cities around the EU who will outline the experiences gaigned from.
• Sosig (Cambridge)
  This is a machine of search specializate in urban research.

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• U.N. Curriculum on Cities
  Cities--in the developing, as well as the developed, word--.Students will acquire or further develop specific analytical,...
• University of Cambridge
• University of Glasgow (Urban Studies Dep.)
  (Evans, Goodall... the best of european urban)
• University of Leeds
• University of Reading
• University of Wales
• Urban Design
• Urban Geography Study Group, RGS-IBG
  The group is concerned with trhee main fieds: first, urban theory; second, urban policy and third, various specialist sub-themes such as: retailing, urban conservation and urban crime. The Group has organised a wide range of conferences in recent years on issues such as: local economic developement and the changing images.
• Urban Studies and Planning
• Urban Morphology Research Group, School of Geography, University of Birmingham, UK
  A major centre for the study of all the geographical aspects of urban form.
• URS/GEO
  Includes the role of plannig in urban structures, and duties and responsibilities of planning commissions; process of preparing comprehensive plans; population change, the economic base, and determinants of future urban structure. Explores how "technological fixes" for complex urban problems have shaped urban developement and politics.

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• VIOLA - Virtual Institute of Local Affairs, University of Tampere, Finland
  A project which aims to provide a forum for all who are interested in European local research.

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• Word Resources 1996-97: Chapter 2
  In cities of the developing world, this will entail both technological improvements--chief among them, providing water and sanitation and reducing exposure to air pollutants--and, equally important, institutional reforms. Improving health and quality of life will require a significant departure from the piecemeal approach that has dominated urban management since the 19th Century, in which.