Urban Studies Revised 15 May 09

Urban Studies

Selected Resources at Stanford and on the Web Tony Angiletta, Morrison Curator Updated May 15, 2009

Urban Studies: What is it and What are the Issues?  Stanford Program in Urban Studies  What is Urban Studies?:Stanford Program  What is Urban Studies? CHE Colloquy  CHE: The New Urban Studies: Action  CHE: The New Urban Studies: Reaction

Stanford Libraries Resources  Libraries Homepage: Quick Guide

Stanford Libraries Resources: Additional Databases, Indexes and Full-Text  Lexis-Nexis Academic: Law Reviews  Lexis-Nexis Academic: News  EBSCO host Databases:

Business Source Premier, Academic Source Premier, ERIC, Econlit

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Social Sciences Citation Index Environmental Sciences and Pollution Manageme Population Index International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavio

Stanford Libraries Resources: Additional Databases, Indexes and Full-Text (cont’d)  Historical Newspapers: NY Times, LA Times, NewsBank Full-Text Newspapers  JSTOR  Project Muse  Current Urban Documents  Etc, etc.

Selected Web Resources  H-Urban: Web Links  H-Urban: Urban Studies Programs  H-Urban: Bibliographies  Urban Institute  Lincoln Institute  Urban Land Institute  City Mayors

Selected Web Resources (cont’d)  Urbanicity (homepage)  Urbanicity (Urban Resources)

 Brookings Institution: Metropolitan Policy Program  Making Cities Work

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Pew Internet & American Life Project: "Cities Online: Cities Alliance HUD: Library Resources For Understanding The Depa Scout Report: Archives: Urban Animals to Urbanizatio

Selected Web Resources (cont’d)  Scout Report: Archives: Cities and Towns  European Union (EU): Eurocities

 European Union (EU): Urban Audit Project descrip  UNESCO: MOST Urban Issues  WHO: Healthy Cities  World Bank: Urban Development

Selected Web Resources (cont’d)

 Wilson Center: Comparative Urban Studies Projec  California Research Bureau. Reports and Bibliogr

 Public Policy Institute of California  Rutgers: Center for Urban Policy Research: The S  Rutgers: Center for Urban Policy Research: Susta

Selected Web Resources (cont’d)  UC Berkeley: Guides to City & Regional Planning  UN Habitat: Urbanization: Facts and Figures

 UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund:State  Urban Environment (UNEP.Net )

Selected Web Resources (cont’d): Quality of Life Indicators of Possible Relevance

 Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relie  Quality of Life Indicators: Social and Health Lands  Qualifty of Life Indicators: SUNY Downstate Medic

Selected Web Resources (cont’d): Quality of Life Indicators of Possible Relevance

 Quality of Life Indicators: How to Measure  Quality of Life Indicators: Michigan Cities  Quality of Life Indicators: Seattle: Sustainable Sea  Quality of Life Indicators: Canada  Quality of Life Indicators:UK descriptive list  Quality of Life Indicators:New Zealand Project

Selected Web Resources (cont’d): Quality of Life Indicators of Possible Relevance  Quality of Life Indicators: Calvert-Henderson.com

Selected Unlinked Social Indicators of Possible Relevance

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Governance Indicators (World Bank) Social Indicators of Development (World Bank)[superseded by World Development Indicators] Living Standards Measurement (LSMS) (World Bank) Laws and legal institutions index (World Bank) Banking sector index (World Bank) Role and management of government index (World Bank) Social policy index (World Bank)

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Index of Social Progress (Estes) Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI) Wealth Index (World Bank) Human Poverty Index (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI) Federal Poverty Index TIP curve Robin Hood index/Pietra ratio Gini coefficient of inequality Integrated Poverty Index (IPI) Composite Poverty Index (CPI) Foster,Greer, Thorbecke index (FGT index)(1984) Watts index (1968) Sen index Personal Security Index (PSI)

Selected Unlinked Social Indicators of Possible Relevance

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Blackorby&Donaldson index (1980) Indicators of Sustainable Development Format & Methodologies or FISD (UN Council on Sustain.Dvlpt) Index of Social Health (Fordham) Index of Leading Economic Indicators Composite Index of Affluence (japanese EcoPlan'gAgency) International Living (IL) Quality of Life Index Index of Composite Enviornmental Engagement Fulfilled Commitment Index (Social Watch Report)

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Friends Quality Index Family Quality index Time Quality measure Housing Satisfaction Index Neighborhood Satisfaction index Life Satisfaction Index Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale Okun's misery index Alesina's index of political instability Philadelphia Geriatric Center Multilevel Assessment Instrument (MAI) Multidimensional Environment Assessment Procedure (MEAP)

Selected Unlinked Social Indicators of Possible Relevance

 Grilli's index of central bank

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independence Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) Index of the Wealth of Nations (World Times Triangle) Big Mac Index (Economist) World Economic Outlook (IMF) General Progress Indicators Human Suffering Index World Resources Institute's World Resources Vital Signs (Worldwatch Institute) Jacksonville "equity index" (possibly QIP above)

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State of the World Report (Worldwatch Institute) Country Futures Indicators (CFI) (Henderson) Quality Indicators for Progress (Jacksonville,FL) New Economics Foundation (London) Healthy Cities Indicators (WHO & Kickenbusch) Coexistence index (Alan B. Slifka for New York City) Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) (Redefining Progress) U.N. "augmented physical quality of life index"

 Integrated environmental

pressure index (Dutch)