EUROPE
BY CITY

CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data Archives)
http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/l_eng.shtml

Some urban and some historical data.
(28 Jul 2001)

Cultures of Cities: A new data bank
http://www.planum.net/4bie/

Illustrated reports of recent redevlopment and planning efforts, especially in the realm of preservation for more than 40 different European cities are presented by Planum, an e-magazine ( http://www.planum.net/ ).
(9 Feb 2004)

Historic Cities
http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/

This site, located at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, contains maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic European cities and facilitates the location of similar content on the web.
(12 Nov 2001; updated 8 Aug 2002)

Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/intro.html

Narrative and archival material from a number of cities.
(28 Jul 2001)

Planum
http://www.planum.net/

An E-zine for European city planning which contains many historical items, a news section, and a "Best Sites of the Month" section. See the recently added data bank on redevelopment projects throughout Europe at Cultures of Cities: A new data bank.
(19 Nov 2001; updated 9 Feb 2004)

UNESCO Municipal Archives: Europe

See UNESCO Archives Portal
(7 Aug 2002)

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AARHUS, DENMARK

Mapping Urban History: GIS and the analysis of the urban space of nineteenth-century Aarhus
http://www.mapping.1go.dk/

Full-text paper by Danish scholars Jens Toftgaard Jensen and Garry Keyes that was presented at the International Association for History and Computing’s XVth conference in Tromsø, August 6th – 9th 2003. Available as downloadable web page, Powerpoint presentation, or PDF copy.
(9 Feb 2005)

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PARIS, FRANCE

Paris Maps
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/courses/parismaps/

These 100 street maps of Paris between 1716 and 1887 were assembled by Professor Barry Bergdoll of Columbia University.
(15 Feb 2003)

Siege of Paris Collection
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/

Numerous photos at the McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Library. Well-indexed.
(18 Feb 2003; 28 Jul 2001)

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ST. ETIENNE, FRANCE

St. Etienne: Regards d’écrivains sur la Ville
http://www.emse.fr/AVSE/ecriv0.htm

Contains virtual tour of the city from the local museum, as well as a narrative history by Philippe Chapelin. This site contains distracting advertisements.
(28 Jul 2001)

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VIENNE, FRANCE

Ancient Vienne
http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/vienne/fr/index.html

A virtual tour and narrative in both French and English of an archaeological dig at an old Roman city in the Rhone Valley, France.
(17 Aug 2001)

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Autobahn Online
http://www.autobahn-online.de/

Mostly contemporary materials, but some historical statistics, links, and photos. Largely in German; there is an English version of the homepage.
(9 Feb 2004; 17 Nov 2004)

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MUNSTER, GERMANY

Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte an der Universität Münster
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Staedtegeschichte/

The German Institute for Comparative Urban History with maps, links and a 20,000-entry bibliography, almost exclusively German in focus.
(28 Jul 2001)

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BERGEN, NORWAY

Digitalarkivet
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/WebFront.exe?slag=vis&tekst=meldingar&spraak=e

Digitalarkivet (The Digital Archive) of the Norwegian National censuses of 1801, 1865, 1900 and other sources is a joint project between the National Archives of Norway, the regional Archive of Bergen, and the University of Bergen's Department of History.
(27 Feb 2001; updated 30 June 2003)

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Irish Architecture Online
http://www.irish-architecture.com/index.shtml

A comprehensive architecture site with many historical features, including photos, biographies of architects, links, and books.
(26 June 2003)

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ITALY

Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana
http://www.storiaurbana.it/

Bibliography, links, and a forum.
(9 Feb 2004)

Rapu (Rete Archivi Piani urbanistici)
http://pcsiwa12.rett.polimi.it/~rapu/home.htm

An Italian digital archive of master plans, promoted since 1994 by the "Triennale di Milano". It has plan and maps for Bari, Bologna, Como, Cremona, Ferrara, Lecco, Mantova, Ravenna, Rovigo, and Venezia and links to archival collections.
(19 Nov 2001)

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POMPEII, ITALY

Pompeii Forum Project
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pompeii/index.html

Includes an interactive map and text.
(23 Sep 2000; URL updated 20 Jun 2001)

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ROME, ITALY

Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/waters/

Katherine Wentworth Rinne designed this site, which contains interactive maps. Users can set the topographical type (including rotating, moving images) and add or subtract different elements of the man-made water systems (such as aqueducts, sewers and fountains) and natural systems (such as rivers, creeks and marshes) at six intervals from 773 B.C. to the age of Caesar with subsequent sections under construction. It includes copies of inscriptions and a bibliography. We badly need a site like this for hydraulically interesting modern cities, like Venice or Amsterdam or Boston.
(18 Jun 2001; 17 Nov 2004)

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SIENA, ITALY

La Diana
http://faculty.washington.edu/kucher/diana/english/index.html

The Diana: (La Diana) is the association for the safeguard and protection of the bottini (underground aquaducts), monumental Fountains, and the entire historical, cultural, and architectural patrimony of water in Siena. The site is available in both Italian and English.
(15 Feb 2003)

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Cinema Theatre Association Online
http://www.cinema-theatre.org.uk/

The Cinema Theatre Association, a membership organization, documents the history of movie theatres in the United Kingdom. This website only has a sample of their materials for non-members.
(26 June 2003)

Digital Library of Historical Directories
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/

A digitized library by the University of Leicester of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century local and trade directories from England and Wales.
(9 Feb 2004)

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LONDON, ENGLAND, U.K.

Air Pollution in London
http://www.erg.kcl.ac.uk/london/asp/information.asp?view=howbad

Mostly contemporary introduction to the topic with excellent links.
(9 Feb 2004)

Centre for Metropolitan History (University of London)
http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/cmh.main.html

Contains valuable bibliographies, lists of work in progress, reports on ongoing large scale research projects and an electronic version of the out-of-print Epidemic Disease in London edited by J.A.I. Champion. This should be the model for research center websites.
(28 Jul 2001)

A Glimpse Into London's Early Sewers
http://www.swopnet.com/engr/londonsewers/londontext1.html

A journalistic narrative with some illustrations written by Mary Gayman for Cleanser Magazine. Comes in three parts, something that is not obvious from the index.
(28 Jul 2001)

The London Journal
http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/cmh/londonjournal/

Subscription and submission information. Tables of content since 1995.
(28 Jul 2001)

Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mhc/

Michael Levenson of the University of Virginia and David Trotter of the University of London planned this internationally-collaborative site, which includes the births, deaths, and population data of London by neighborhood from 1850 to 1900 in a format that allows users to graph different variables. The site has very weak text, photo and map sections, although much more is promised. There is a select bibliography.
(18 Jun 2001)

Museum of London: Galleries
http://www.museum-london.org.uk/MOLsite/gallery/index.htm

An introduction to the museum with new web exhibits on the "Thames in Prehistory", London as a "World City, 1789-1914" and several older exhibits. The museum claims to be the world's largest urban history museum.
(15 Feb 2003)

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PORT SUNLIGHT, ENGLAND, United Kingdom

Port Sunlight Village Online
http://www.portsunlight.org.uk/

The narrative, photos, reminiscences, bibliography and maps are used by this online United Kingdom website to document the Merseyside Victorian planned community of Port Sunlight Village, England, begun by soap manufacturer William Lever in 1888. It has an exceedingly poorly designed interface with text and photos displayed in a tiny window.
(17 Jun 2001)

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WOLVERHAMPTON, ENGLAND, United Kingdom

Wolverhampton History and Heritage Society
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/home.htm

Contains a short narrative and good bibliography.
(28 Jul 2001)

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Statistical Accounts of Scotland
http://edina.ac.uk/StatAcc

The EDINA Statistical Accounts of Scotland web service offers access with search capability to around 28,000 digital images of the Statistical Accounts of Scotland, first published in 1791-99 and 1845.
(28 Jul 2001)

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