1	Urban Studies Selected Resources at Stanford and on the Web Tony Angiletta, Morrison Curator Updated 05 March 2006
2	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
3	Stanford Libraries Resources Libraries Homepage: Quick Guide
4	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 Social Sciences Citation Index Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Databases Population Index International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
5	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.
6	Selected Web Resources H-Urban: Web Links H-Urban: Urban Studies Programs H-Urban: Bibliographies Urban Institute Lincoln Institute Urban Land Institute City Mayors
7	Selected Web Resources (cont’d) Urbanicity (homepage) Urbanicity (Urban Resources) Brookings Institution: Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy Brookings Institution: Research Topics: Cities and Suburbs Making Cities Work
8	Selected Web Resources (cont’d) Pew Internet & American Life Project: "Cities Online: Urban Development and the Internet“ Cities Alliance HUD: Library Resources For Understanding The Department of Housing and Urban Development Scout Report: Archives: Urban Animals to Urbanization
9	Selected Web Resources (cont’d) Scout Report: Archives: Cities and Towns European Union (EU): Eurocities European Union (EU): Urban Audit Project description UNESCO: MOST Urban Issues WHO: Healthy Cities World Bank: Urban Development
10	Selected Web Resources (cont’d) Wilson Center: Comparative Urban Studies Project California Research Bureau. Reports and Bibliography Public Policy Institute of California Rutgers: Center for Urban Policy Research: The State of the Nation's Cities Rutgers: Center for Urban Policy Research: Sustainability and Wanted Solutions
11	Selected Web Resources (cont’d) UC Berkeley: Guides to City & Regional Planning Research UN Habitat: Urbanization: Facts and Figures UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund:State of the World Population Report 2004 Urban Environment (UNEP.Net )
12	Selected Web Resources (cont’d): Quality of Life Indicators of Possible Relevance Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transition (SMART) indicators Quality of Life Indicators: Social and Health Landscape of Urban and Suburban America Reports Qualifty of Life Indicators: SUNY Downstate Medical Center: City and Suburban Index Rankings
13	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 Seattle Quality of Life Indicators: Canada Quality of Life Indicators:UK descriptive list Quality of Life Indicators:New Zealand Project
14	Selected Web Resources (cont’d): Quality of Life Indicators of Possible Relevance Quality of Life Indicators: Calvert-Henderson.com
15	Selected Mostly Unlinked Social Indicators of Possible Relevance: All can be found on Google 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) 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)
16	Selected Mostly Unlinked Social Indicators of Possible Relevance: All can be found on Google 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) 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)
17	Selected Mostly Unlinked Social Indicators of Possible Relevance: All can be found on Google Grilli's index of central bank 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) 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)