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@149st
http://www.at149st.com/

A fascinating, lavishly illustrated history of New York City subway graffiti since the 1960s. Also see Art Crimes below.
(28 Jul 2001)

AATA Online
http://aata.getty.edu/NPS/

This Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (AATA) site "is a comprehensive database of 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage," offered as a free service by the J. Paul Getty Trust. Free registration is recommended for use of the site, but not essential (9 Feb 2004; 17 Nov 2004)

Ad Access
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/

This collection of 7,000 advertising images for the years 1911 to 1950 is mostly from the J. Walter Thompson collection at John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. Thumbnailed and searchable. Its especially good for transportation and cosmetics advertisements.
(28 Jul 2001)

ADHEMAR, Base de données du Groupe de recherche sur Montréal.
Propriété, bâti et population à Montréal, 1642-1805
http://cca.qc.ca/adhemar

This site called "ADHEMAR" gives access to an important database that was built by the former Montréal Research Group at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. This Group conducted a systematic social history of the built environment in Montreal from the town's foundation in 1642 through the early years of the 19th century. Through the powerful search engine, one can obtain all the information pertaining to grounds, buildings or persons for a selected year or a whole period. The database covers Montreal in the 17th and 18th centuries, an area now known as the historic district of Old Montreal (see also the Old Montreal site at http://vieux.montreal.qc.ca/eng/accueila.htm for more historical data). Although the site is mostly in French, there is a description of the project underlying the database. [Michéle Dagenais, département d'histoire, Université de Montréal, submitted this site and its review].
(30 Aug 2001; 23 Jul 2002)

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)

Akron Women's History
http://www3.uakron.edu/schlcomm/womenshistory

Students at The University of Akron, under the leadership of Kathleen L. Endres, construct and maintain this new website that "explores the roles women have played in the city's development." Through personal biographies and photographs, the site examines women who have contributed to the Akron community, from the antebellum period to the present. Endres states that the site is based on "primary source material and information" that "cannot be found from any other source (H-Urban: 27 March 2003)," but only the graphic material is broadly identified. The ambitious project contains a Kid's Page with puzzles, games, and a virtual Women's Hall of Fame aimed at engaging the young on the women of Akron who "have played in the history of the city, the county and the region." The content is light on this developing site, but it promises to fill a cyber void in urban history.
(18 April 2003)

Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com

The largest on-line bookstore, but also a useful bibliographical source. The best place to check for recent or about to be published English language books, especially to find tables of contents and brief reviews. If you send them a request about a particular topic, such as "urban history", they will e-mail you every time a new book on that topic is published. Amazon.UK (United Kingdom), Amazon.FR (France), and Amazon.DE (Germany) are now on-line also.
(28 Jul 2001)

America Hurrah: San Francisco Earthquake of April 18, 1906
http://americahurrah.com/Earthquake/eqIndex.htm

A compilation of photos and official reports from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
(9 Feb 2004)

American Council of Learned Society's History E-Book Project
http://www.historyebook.org/

This project offers libraries a subscription service which includes electronic texts of more than 800 recent historical monographs which are now out of print. The project expects to expand this list considerably over the next five years, adding 250 works a year, and also to publish 85 new works selected by established university presses. The site solicits suggestions for other works to be included. Details are available at the website.
(22 November 2002; 17 November 2004)

American Memory (Library of Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

The U.S.A. Library of Congress has produced an amazing collection of 80,000 largely-American photos, a large proportion of them urban, plus maps, "birds-eye" views and documents in their American Memory collection. While it is well indexed and easy to obtain copies, the collection is so huge that the search function is often overwhelmed. Clearly the best place to look for iconography. The site contains images, plans and documents for both the Historic American Building Survey and Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER). There are special collections that cover architectural photography; African-American materials; baseball; the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information photos from the 1930s and 1940s; a number of early twentieth-century records and early films (many depicting urban streets, parades and the like); photos from the Loeb Library at Harvard University documenting American architectural and landscape design 1850-1920; and hundreds of city maps and panoramic views culled from the Library's collection of 4.5 million items.
(20 Sep 2000; updated 7 Aug 2002)
Review (H-Urban on February, 1997) by Eric Schneider, University of Pennsylvania.

American Studies, Serial Bibliography Project, Urban and Planning History
http://www.amst.umd.edu/Research/serial/histurb.html

An annotated list of journals in urban and planning history.
(28 Jul 2001; updated 30 June 2003)

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; 23 Jul 2002)

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)

Architectural Record's WTC News, including 1964 report on the final design of the World Trade Center
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/wtc/

This site has been reorganized as an "index of World Trade Center-related news, information, and design proposals," which includes a heavily illustrated piece on the architecture of the Trade Center twin towers written in 1964. For the PDF version of the full two page report, go to:  http://archrecord.construction.com/news/wtc/archives/wtc1964.pdf. Other historical documents are available from the ‘From our archive’ section of the site’s homepage.
(16 Oct 2002; 17 Nov 2004)

Archives de Montreal
http://www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/archives.htm

The Montreal City Archives of Quebec, Canada, is a well-presented site with numerous photos. Organized with an index, the site gives access through a general finding aid to city and municipal service records as well as to the different series of civic records in the private archives held by the Montreal City Archives. There is a library containing photos of Montreal and its municipal services, organized chronogically. Within this large site is a virtual museum exhibit on "Montreal, municipalité et métropole, 1920-1960" (http://www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/seriez/index.htm), which contains 301 digitized photos of Montreal seen through its buildings, sites, municipal services, and important figures.
(30 Aug 2001; updated 7 Aug 2002)

Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall
http://www.graffiti.org/

Susan Farrell put together this collection of graffiti from over 100 cities. The collection is global, but strongest for the U.S. and Europe. Many of the works depicted no longer exist in real space.
(28 Jul 2001)

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

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

Australian Places: A Gazetteer of Australian Cities, Towns and Suburbs
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/index.html

A touristy short introduction to Australian places, including large cities. Some descriptions (notably Melbourne suburbs) have a valuable narrative, historical text, maps, and photos. Entries are, however, not without errors.
(9 Feb 2004; 17 Nov 2004)

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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