ACTION: The web site for the International Network for Urban Research and Action, which consists of activists and researchers from a variety of fields and national contexts aimed at fostering interaction between urban theory and urban activism.
ARCHITECTURE: RIBA's web site here
CHILDREN IN THE CITY: There is a good bibliography on youth behaviour and regulation in public space on this Australian site
COMMISSION OF URBAN GEOGRAPHY AT THE IGU: CUG's web site here
CONFERENCES: An excellent site announcing Urban Studies Conferences Worldwide, as well another announcing conferences on Place and Space
CRIME AND THE CITY: On curfews and civil order legislation, visit the UK Home Office site, where various police research group publications focus on CCTV, drinking bans, child restraint orders and other policies focused on the regulation of public space.
CULTURE: The Culture of Cities Centre, based out of York University, Canada, a major research initiative into urban culture and experience, focused particularly on Montreal, Toronto, Berlin and Dublin.
EXCLUSIONS: An interesting report here
GENTRIFICATION: There is an excellent gentrification website set up by gentrification researchers in the UK: http://www.gentrification.org
GOVERNANCE: UN-HABITAT's Global Campaign for Urban Governance, running since 1999, seeks to address issues of global poverty through better urban governance.
HISTORY: Centre for Urban History here
HOMELESSNESS: Details on the situation in London can be found here,
while Shelter's site paints a
more general picture.
INVISIBLE: A remarkable web-based version of Paris ville invisible (translated into English), by Bruno Latour and Emilie Hermant, tracing some of the many ways hidden and ordinary objects, infrastructures and practices make urban life possible.
LIVABLE CITIES: The Post Habitat II Agenda for the World Bank
MORPHOLOGY: International Seminar on Urban Form publishes the journal Urban Morphology on all aspects of urban form.
PLANNING: This are many guides and bibliographies for researchers and practioners in city and regional planning, including this one.There is an online Planning Journal at http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/olp/
POLICY: The
Urban Institute. The Urban Institute is a nonprofit policy research
organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1968. The staff
investigates the social and economic problems confronting the nation and
government policies and public and private programs designed to alleviate
them. See also The Center for
Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University and the World
Bank Urban
Development Programme
PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY: This on
line journal considers different ways of exploring and writing the
city.
RADICALISM: Radical writings on the 'modern urban condition' at http://www.radicalurbantheory.com/
RECLAIM THE STREETS: UK RTS and street party information sites are plentiful, some with links to local groups.
REAL ESTATE: The Urban Land Institute lists 70 of their publications, and links to over 700 real estate sites.
TECHNOLOGY: The Centre for Urban Technology, now housed through the new Global Urban Research Unit at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
URBAN DESIGN: There are many articles on contemporary town planning and civic design at the Resource for Urban Design Information site.
WORLD CITIES: Loughborough's GAWC group site here, with over 150 working papers on-line.