Knowledge: urban history
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- The Urban History Association
http://www.unl.edu/uha/news.html - Purpose is to stimulate interest and research in the history of urban life in all periods and geographical areas. Organization information, online newsletter, conference announcements, and internet links.
- Reading a Community: Urban History at the Local Level
http://www.uoguelph.ca/history/urban.html - Online curriculum for honors seminar at the University of Guelph. Focus is on case study of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
- Urban History
http://uk.cambridge.org/journals/uhy/ - Scholarly journal: profile, rates, instructions for contributors, and sample listing of recent articles.
- Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, UK
http://www.le.ac.uk/urbanhist/ - Information about curriculum and research programs.
- The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets
http://www.boondocksnet.com/editions/youth/index.html - Book by urban reformer Jane Addams explores the dangers faced by modern youth and their alienation caused by commercialized recreation, no outlets for romance and adventure, and the monotony of modern industry. Published in 1909.
- Urban History Review
http://www.hist.umontreal.ca/u/urbanhistory/home.html - Peer-reviewed Journal of Canadian urban history. Illustrated history, abstracts and contents for current issue, editorial policies, and guidelines for authors provided.
- City Sites
http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/citysites/ - Academic multimedia essays on New York and Chicago from 1870 to 1930 by scholars from Europe and America.
- H-Urban
http://www.h-net.org/~urban/ - Edited e-mail discussion list in the field of urban history. Guidelines for participation, list of edtiors, archives, link for subscribing, and related internet links.
- Institute of Urban History
http://www.historia.su.se/urbanhistory/eng/ - Stockholm, Sweden. Promotes the study of urban, municipal and local history, primarily in Sweden and other Nordic countries. General information, publications lists, directory of Ph.D students, and related internet links. [English and Swedish]
- Levittown at Fifty
http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-levittown,0,850235.storygallery?coll=ny-lihi... - The story of Levittown (Long Island, N.Y.), the best known suburban development of the post-war era.
- Ferrol: Urban History
http://journals.cambridge.org/fulltext_content/supplementary/UHY/supp1/ - An academic multimedia essay on the Spanish city of (1726-2005), developed by the Urban Studies Workshop of the University of A Coruña.
- Picture Spennymoor History
http://www.picturespennymoor.co.uk/ - Dedicated to sharing historical photographs and information about the community and surrounding villages.
- Life in the Model City: Stories of Urban Renewal in New Haven
http://www.yale.edu/nhohp/modelcity - An oral history-based exhibit about urban renewal in Connecticut during the 1950s and 1960s, produced by the New Haven Oral History Project at Yale University.
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