interesting. on boundaries / definition

News & Information about Cities in Africa

Besides its appeal to a longue durée analysis, the topic of urbanism and utopia - and their links, of course - is today rather fashionable, whether one speaks of current exhibitions, critical insights on the idea of a capitalist Utopia, or even indirectly among the latest parliamentary reports.  In this series of three guests posts we will explore the definition of a Post-Utopian Urbanism, on the basis of various readings ranging from Lefebvre to recent writings of Jameson and Rem Koolhaas, and to a great extent indebted to David Harvey's seminal analysis of the links between capitalist transformation and our (post)modern perception of space and time (1989).

UN database software DevInfo is a database system endorsed by the United Nations Development Group for monitoring human development. It is a tool for organizing, storing and presenting data in a uniform way to facilitate data sharing at the country level across government departments, UN agencies and development partners.

LSE Cities is an international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, education and outreach activities in London and abroad. Its mission is to study how people and cities interact in a rapidly urbanising world, focussing on how the design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment. Through research, conferences, teaching and projects, the centre aims to shape new thinking and practice on how to make cities fairer and more sustainable for the next generation of urban dwellers, who will make up some 70 per cent of the global population by 2050.

library access at UNON

Un Habitat intranet Library - Journals (go to parent for more) Cities (Science Direct) Habitat International (Science Direct) Journal of Urban Economics (Science Direct) Land Use Policy (Science Direct) Progress in Planning (Science Direct) World Development (Science Direct) 

star graphs - nice ref for us

LIVING AT DENSITY: VOICES OF HONG KONG RESIDENTS

Data comparison. Global.

Data, Country-level. Extremely useful

CGLU, seat in barcelona. Llop invovlved. 

policy and design research for urban computational systems in Amsterdam. VURB is a European framework for policy and design research concerning urban computational systems. The VURB foundation, based in Amsterdam, provides direction and resources to a portfolio of projects investigating how our cultures might come to use networked digital resources to change the way we understand, build, and inhabit cities.

Database for searching Journals

The World Digital Library is connected to libraries worldwide and provides free access to a large number of materials.

Jstor offers a comprehensive collection of journals and other sources with scholarly content. Although it is based on a paid subscription and partnership with institutions and libraries, one can still access full texts of early journal content for free. Some libraries have full access to this source.

UNALIS - library catalogue Use also for Journals etc

Institut für Städtebau und Raumplanung Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck Peter Trummer | Univ.-Prof. Arch. DI MScInstitusleiter | head of institute Later, for tool development