BY SUBJECT OR SOURCE
Portal Sites to Urban-Related Links

PORTAL SITES

British Universities Newsreel Database (BUND)
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/databases/newsreels/archives/streamed.html

A portal linking newsreel film archives in Britain, France, Italy and the U.S. Much of the coverage is urban, some of it as far back as the early twentieth century.
(15 Feb 2003)

Data on the Net
http://odwin.ucsd.edu/idata/

The best guide to statistical data and gateways on the net, maintained by Jim Jacobs, Data Librarian in the Social Sciences Data Centre at the University of San Diego. Its possible to miss data that you want, since the search function does not go very deeply into each site, so try searching under a variety of terms, the broader, the better. For European data, it is probably better to use the Guide to International Sources for European Statistical Data.
(9 Aug 2003)

Finding Local Information
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/locinfo.html

The Environmental Design Library, at the University of California-Berkeley put together this excellent bibliography and set of weblinks on the history of individual U.S.A. communities.
(30 Aug 2001; updated 8 Aug 2002)

History Cooperative
http://www.historycooperative.org/home.html

For subsrcribers or members only. Searchable full text runs of the Journal of American History, William and Mary Quarterly, Law and History Review, The History Teacher, The Western Historical Quarterly, Commonplace and Labor/Le Travail. Only includes issues too recent for J-Stor.
(8 Oct 2002)

Images of early maps on the web (Map History/History of Cartography)
http://www.maphistory.info/webimages.html

Portal site is a gateway to hundreds of links to web map images, including related information on using and storing map images, technical considerations, copyrights, and other details. An extremely comprehensive set of well-annotated links that is especially strong on Europe.
(10 Nov 2002; updated 4 Feb 2004)

Kansas List of History Websites
http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/topical/urban.html

The best place to start looking for historical websites. It has especially strong links to archives and data bases, both in Europe and the U.S. Not always well-maintained, so if a URL draws a blank, try searching under the title, using Google.
(16 Oct 2002)

Los Angeles: Past, Present and Future
http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/

Excellent, nicely rendered portal site to rich, online resources on the history and evolution of Los Angeles, using archival resources at the University of Southern California. It is maintained by members of University of Southern California's Information Services Division.
(26 June 2003)

Public History Resource Center
http://www.publichistory.org/index.html

Created by the private, non-profit group, the Public History Resource Center (PHRC), this site "seeks to curate the field of public history, particularly as it is exercised on the Web, by providing a structure of information which contextualizes and supports public history's recent invigoration." It includes information on the field of public history and presents an excellent methodology for reviews, as well a number of full length reviews. Some readers may be especially interested in their "Reviews of World's Fair Websites" at http://www.publichistory.org/reviews/July2000/index.html#2.
(16 Jun 2001)

Repositories of Primary Sources
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

Terry Abraham at the University of Idaho has created what is believed to be the most extensive set of links to libraries with archival and special collections in the world. If you are looking for resources on a particular locality, this is a good starting point. Abraham's site has more links to collections, especially at the local level than the Library of Congress' National Union Catalog of Manuscript collections at http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/usframes.html. Moreover Abraham covers the world, not just the U.S. However, the Library of Congress has important information for archivists and preservationists, such as links to professional societies, job/grant opportunities, copyright laws and how-to-catalog information.
(28 Jul 2001)

Scholar's Guide to the World Wide Web
http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/

A portal put together by historian, internet maven, and H-Net co-founder Richard Jensen. An excellent introduction and list of sites.
(8 Oct 2002)

Society of Architectural Historians
http://www.sah.org

This site offers bibliographies (including a list of architectural history dissertations underway) for a number of cities, and excellent links to local sites. Through its website, the Society of Architectural Historians also offers the largest number of architectural images on the web, by far, as part of its image exchange. Oddly enough, the exact number of images is not specified. The site links to other local image collections for various cities around the world. It also has short biographies of leading architects.
(28 Jul 2001)

UNESCO Archives Portal
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/index.shtml

UNESCO has created this extraordinary site which has links to archives and other collections of primary sources all over the world. In addition to NGO, national and regional (or state) archives, it has links to 771 municipal archives in Europe, 297 in the U.S. and Canada, 45 in Asia/Oceania and 41 in Latin America. At the moment there is an interesting presentation "Evidence! Europe Reflected in Archives" at http://www.euarchives.org/ with short, illustrated urban histories from the archives of Bergen, Bologna, Cracow, Helsinki, Prague, Reykjavik, and Santiago de Compostela.
(7 Aug 2002)
UNESCO Municipal Archives: Europe
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/Archives/Municipal_Archives/Europe/index.shtml
Links to 771 municipal archives.
UNESCO Municipal Archives: Northern America
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/Archives/Municipal_Archives/Northern_America/index.shtml
297 municipal archives in the U.S. and Canada.
UNESCO Municipal Archives: Asia Pacific
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/Archives/Municipal_Archives/Asia_Pacific/index.shtml
Links to 43 municipal archives in China, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
UNESCO Municipal Archives: Latin America
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/Archives/Municipal_Archives/Latin_America/index.shtml Links to 45 municipal archives in 8 countries.

UNESCO: Memory of the World Register
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/register/index.html

The Memory of the World Register by the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) lists documentary heritage which has been identified by UNESCO as meeting the selection criteria for world significance. The extensive links to global archives that identify the location of major documentary repositories complement the information provided on the World Heritage Cities web pages (http://www.ovpm.org/main.asp).
(7 Aug 2002)

World City Links
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/links.html

The Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group and Network at Loughborough University put together this useful portal to international urban organizations and databases. The main site features full-text research reports like the "Comparing London and Frankfurt as World Cities: A Relational Study of Contemporary Urban Change" (2001); lists of urban research groups; and data sets.
(15 Feb 2003)

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