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PLANNING HISTORY, ARCHITECTURE, AND BUILDING
Charlottesville: A Brief Urban History
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/schwartz/cville/cville.history.html- This is part of a research project entitled "Charlottesville Urban Design and Affordable Housing" (see abstract at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/schwartz/ ) that was last updated in 1995. Contains several documented images and a bibliography.
(9 Feb 2005)
- Construction Photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge, 1933-1934
http://dynaweb.oac.cdlib.org/dynaweb/ead/calher/ggbridge/1.toc
- 1,066 photos from the Bancroft Library at the University of California-Berkeley.
(9 Feb 2004)
- Construction Photographs of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, 1931-1936
http://dynaweb.oac.cdlib.org/dynaweb/ead/calher/baybridge/@Generic__BookTextView/2;cs=default;ts=default;pt=73
- 3467 photos from the Bancroft Library at the University of California-Berkeley.
(9 Feb 2004)
- 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)
- Digital Archive of American Architecture
http://www.bc.edu./bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/
- Archive of over 1,500 sorted and searchable indentified images of American architecture originally begun by Jeffrey Lowe of Boston College to supplement one of his courses. Most images in color and available for educational use.
Boston: History of the Landfills
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/bibliog_bos.html
The odd title notwithstanding, this is a lavishly illustrated site on Boston architecture with an excellent bibliography.
(26 June 2003)
- 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)
- Le Corbusier's plan for Algiers (1941)
http://www.planum.net/archive/lec.htm
- The site covers Le Corbusier's 1941 plan for Algiers, Algeria in Africa with 34 never before published images, including site analysis sketches, the plan itself and photos for this rejected program.
(19 Nov 2001)
- National Register of Historic Places
http://www.cr.nps.gov/places.htm
- In partnership with the U. S. National Park Service, the National Register of Historic Places has created this website as an access to the information provided in the documentation required to register a property. This is part of an ongoing project to digitalize its database covering nearly 75,000 listings in the Register as National Historic Landmarks or National Historic Places. Containing a wealth of information, the site includes a bibliography.
(25 Aug 2002)
- Online Planning Resources
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sbe/planbiblios
- Hugh McClintock of the University of Nottingham has put together an excellent bibliography of planning materials, including links, at the following website.
(18 Nov 2002)
- The Papers of Sir Patrick Geddes at Strathclyde University Archives http://www.strath.ac.uk/archives/geddes.html
- A brief biography and finding aid to the papers of the famous Scottish town planner. There is also a biography and finding aid to the papers of Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, the prominent modernist planner.
(8 Aug 2002; updated 4 Feb 2004)
- Planning Perspectives
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/02665433.html
- A British journal with an emphasis on the history of planning. Contains tables of contents since 1998.
(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.
(19 Nov 2001)
- Urban Planning, 1794-1918: An International Anthology of Articles, Conference Papers, and Reports
http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/homepage.htm
- An annotated collection of over 1865 documents put together by well-known planning historian John Reps, last updated May, 2000.
(22 Jul 2001)
 Review (H-Urban: November, 1999) by Richard Harris, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
- The Virginia Historical Inventory (VHI)
http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas15&local_base=CLAS15
- This website, created by the The Library of Virginia's Digital Library Program (DLP) and funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 1997, puts on-line a 1930's Works Progress Administration (WPA) survey, which reported on and often photographed more than 19,300 historic sites in the state. Many were in urban areas. Many of the buildings covered no longer survive. The VHI also includes more than 6,200 photographs, and 103 annotated county and city maps. The maps (unfortunately without Arlington County or Richmond) are uniquely referenced. For example, a map of the City of Norfolk about 100 locations. Clicking on the highlighted spots on the map will produce the name, report and sometimes photographs of an historic site. Perhaps because of its size, searches are very sluggish. The reports are photographed, not digitized, which can be clumsy.
(28 Jul 2001; updated 4 Feb 2004)
- Williamsburg Bridge
http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/williamsburg/
- Historic and recent photographs of the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City, New York, as well as the details of its history.
(19 Nov 2001)
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