Search for sales statistics, real estate price trends, and real estate market activity in the United States by most popular real estate markets, by using our state map, or with our alphabetical directory of the United States cities. For the United States real estate market overview, see our chart of average sale prices and graph of real estate trends on each state page.

Search for sales statistics, real estate price trends, and real estate market activity in the United States by most popular real estate markets, by using our state map, or with our alphabetical directory of the United States cities. For the United States real estate market overview, see our chart of average sale prices and graph of real estate trends on each state page.

A web site devoted to research on gentrification, includes an impressive bibliography. By Tom Slater in UK.

(from cover page)The Index to Current Urban Documents makes available complete and detailed bibliographic descriptions of the majority  of the local government documents issued annually by the largest cities and counties in the United States and Canada. With the cooperation and assistance of local government officials, public libraries, municipal reference libraries and major research libraries, the program attempts to catalog and index documents issued by 286 of the larger cities and their counties and regions." Copies of the documents themselves can be found in the accompanying microfilm collection in the Government Documents room.

Most useful for documents from 1972-late 90's, but other documents are included. Each volume includes two indexes: a geographical index and a subject index.

Many of the reports are online at http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/1970.htm

In this interactive web site, you are able to select a city or metropolitan area and view the location of high-poverty census tracts and observe the growth of high-poverty areas over time. In addition, you may view the changing demographics of the population. All of the maps here are based on U.S. Census data from 1970 through 2000. The data are summarized at the neighborhood level, using Census Tracts as proxies for neighborhoods.

Data on governments cover every level of government and subjects ranging from property taxes to prosecutions, from long-term debt to liquor monopolies. Federal, State, and local government officials in administration, fiscal planning, and other areas, use governments data widely. Publications from 1991-2002

City government revenues and expenditures from the 2002 Census of Governments.

"On a broad scale we hope to create a conversation between scholars, artists and activists interested in a variety of issues related to communication in public spaces."

Invisible Cities details the state of Camden New Jersey through photos and includes essays by Howard Gillette and photos by Camilo Jose Vergara.

H-net discussion of the damage to New Orleans in historical context. Go forward through the thread to find posts by historians about Katrina.

Discusses the way that Jersey City, Boston, and another city are imagined by long time residents. A pivotal work in showing how people imagine cities and in what kinds of markers make sense to people as they think about cities.