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Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
The inaugural issue of the journal of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, CTBUH Review, was released online in April 2003 and can be downloaded from the council's homepage. Several technical articles and an in-depth case study of a featured project, the IDX Tower in Seattle, comprise the 64 pages. Special attention is given to post-September 11 building design. The journal is... |
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https://www.ctbuh.org/ |
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Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research
Throughout his long life, Lewis Mumford wore multiple hats, including those of a prolific author, accomplished chronicler of urbanism, and social critic. In 1988, a group of scholars from the University of Albany visited Mumford and his wife to discuss a plan for an academic center whose work would be both "comparative and historical in scope." The fruits of this initial idea became the Lewis... |
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https://www.albany.edu/lewis-mumford-center |
Metropolis Magazine
Started in 1998, Metropolis Magazine offers a compelling look at the broad world of design, including the fields of architecture, planning, preservation, and crafts. As the website indicates, "Subjects range from the sprawling urban environment to intimate living spaces to small objects of everyday use." What is inviting about this particular site is the amount of publicly-available material that... |
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https://metropolismag.com/ |
Living Together: A New Look at Racial and Ethnic Integration in Metropolitan Neighborhoods
The 2000 Census continues to offer dedicated scholars and researchers the ability to track and identify various spatial trends and patterns across the country, and this latest publication from the Census Series at the Brookings Institution is certainly no exception to the trend. Authored by David Fasenfest, Jason Booza, and Kurt Metzger, this 20-page report takes a close look at racial and ethnic... |
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https://www.brookings.edu/research/living-together-a-new-loo... |
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Equally Spaced?
Urbanologists and other types have been interested in the interactions between different groups of people in cities for hundreds of years. There is quite a broad literature on studying different types of communities and public spaces, and this recent paper from the Demos group in the United Kingdom adds to that body of work. This 40-page report was first published in July 2007, and it was authored... |
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https://demos.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/Equally%20Space... |
Places Journal
The interdisciplinary Places Journal is a valued resource for those interested in the future of architecture, landscape and urbanism. The journal was established through a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, and is now freely available in its entirety on this website. Places publishes articles by scholars of... |
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https://placesjournal.org |
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Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development offers the full text of its periodical publication Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research. Cityscape, published three times per year, is an in depth publication that summarizes research on housing issues. Past issues are available in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format and early issues are single compressed (.exe) .pdfs. Recent issues... |
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https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape.html |
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The Polis Center
Located at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), the Polis Center is an academic research center that focuses on urban and urban-related issues. Their goal is to "to develop knowledge that will serve the common good and invigorate the sense of community in this city and beyond." To this end, they have placed on the site a great deal of material about their numerous research... |
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https://polis.iupui.edu/ |
Finding Exurbia: America's Fast-Growing Communities at the Metropolitan Fringe
In the early 1990s the journalist and social commentator Joel Garreau coined the term "edge cities" to refer to the growing quasi-urban places that were centered around major suburban freeway interchanges. Some fifteen years later, more and more scholars are interested in the movement towards exurban areas, which in many cases, are further distant than many edge cities. Recently, a team of... |
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https://www.brookings.edu/research/finding-exurbia-americas-... |
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Frontline: The Interrupters
Many organizations and individuals are working to transform some of America's most violent inner city neighborhoods by forming a series of coalitions with local residents, religious organizations, and schools. This engaging documentary from PBS's Frontline takes a look into "the violent landscape of our cities through the eyes of those fighting to sow peace and security." First-time visitors... |
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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/interrupters/... |
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