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Oklahoma City swaps highway for park - USATODAY.com

Oklahoma City swaps highway for park

By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma has a radical solution for repairing the state's busiest highway.

Tear it down. Build a park.

The aging Crosstown Expressway — an elevated 4.5-mile stretch of Interstate 40 — will be demolished in 2012. An old-fashioned boulevard and a mile-long park will be constructed in its place.

Oklahoma City is doing what many cities dream about: saying goodbye to a highway.

More than a dozen cities have proposals to remove highways from downtowns. Cleveland wants to remove a freeway that blocks its waterfront. Syracuse, N.Y., wants to rid itself of an interstate that cuts the city in half.

Real Estate Guides - Trulia Real Estate Search

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.

Real Estate Guides - Trulia Real Estate Search

Geostat Center: Collections: County and City Data Books

Praeger handbook of urban education / edited by Joe L. Kincheloe ... [et al.].

Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks REF LC5131 .P7 2006

Handbook of urban health : populations, methods, and practice / edited by Sandro Galea and David Vlahov.

Call#: Biomedical Library RA566.7 .H36 2005

Cities and the health of the public / Nicholas Freudenberg, Sandro Galea, and David Vlahov, editors.

Call#: Van Pelt Library RA566.7 .C58 2006

Current West Philadelphia Data

david harvey - A Brief History of Neoliberalism

lecture
A Brief History of Neoliberalism [02:02:30]
David Harvey
@ University of Pennsylvania (2006-11-02

From the Urban Studies Program at UPenn: "In his talk, Harvey will draw on his recent book, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005), in which he traces the rise of neoliberal principles based on the theory of free markets and unfettered international capital flows from an obscure economic theory to dominance on the world stage. Harvey shows how proponents of a neoliberal economic philosophy, such as the influential leaders Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, gained the consensus of key figures and economic and political institutions, driven by an aspiration to re-establish class power. He dissects the logic of neoliberalism, revealing its built-in contradictions and the tremendous variation in how it looks from place to place and at different scales. He will talk about how cities have both complied and resisted neoliberalism's discipline."

Lecture begins 00:06:35. Lecture ends and questions begin 01:25:55. Audio goes bad around 01:34:00.

County and city data book.

County and city data book. [0082-9455 ] [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.], 1952-
Call#: Van Pelt Library HA202 .A35

Integrating planning and public health : tools and strategies to create healthy places / [Marya Morris, general editor].

Integrating planning and public health : tools and strategies to create healthy places / [Marya Morris, general editor]. [1932364358 ] Chicago, Ill. : American Planning Association, c2006.
Call#: Fine Arts Library NA9108 .A545 no.539/540

Mama might be better off dead : the failure of health care in urban America / Laurie Kaye Abraham.

Abraham, Laurie Kaye. . Mama might be better off dead : the failure of health care in urban America / Laurie Kaye Abraham. [0226001385 (cloth : alk. paper) ] Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1993.
Call#: Van Pelt Library RA418.5.P6 A26 1993

Unhealthy places : the ecology of risk in the urban landscape / Kevin Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory.

Fitzpatrick, Kevin M. . Unhealthy places : the ecology of risk in the urban landscape / Kevin Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory. [0415923719 (hb) ] New York : Routledge, 2000.
Call#: Van Pelt Library RA566.3 .F58 2000

The American city in the age of terror - A preliminary assessment of the effects of September 11

Eisinger,P . "The American city in the age of terror - A preliminary assessment of the effects of September 11" Urban affairs review [1078-0874] 40.1 (2004). 115-130.

Conversations with History: A Geographer's Perspective on the New American Imperialism, with David Harvey

Distinguished geographer David Harvey joins host Harry Kreisler for a discussion of how the analytic tools of geography and Marxism can contribute to our understanding of the new imperialism. Series: "Conversations with History"

david harvey interview

Neoliberalism has left an indelible, smoldering mark on our world for the last thirty years. Eminent Marxist geographer David Harvey, author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford, 2005), spoke earlier this year to Sasha Lilley, of the radical radio program Against the Grain, about the origins and trajectory of the neoliberal creed.

The right to the city

Harvey,D . "The right to the city" International journal of urban and regional research [0309-1317] 27.4 (2003). 939-.

SOCIAL-JUSTICE, POSTMODERNISM AND THE CITY

HARVEY,D . "SOCIAL-JUSTICE, POSTMODERNISM AND THE CITY" International journal of urban and regional research [0309-1317] 16.4 (1992). 588-601.

SOCIAL-JUSTICE, POSTMODERNISM AND THE CITY

HARVEY,D . "SOCIAL-JUSTICE, POSTMODERNISM AND THE CITY" International journal of urban and regional research [0309-1317] 16.4 (1992). 588-601.

Gentrification Web

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

Finding Newspapers at Penn - Research Guide

Index to current urban documents.

[0046-8908 ] Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1972-
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks HT123 .I453

(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.

1970 census of population and housing. Census tracts.

United States. Bureau of the Census. . 1970 census of population and housing. Census tracts. [Washington; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1971-
Call#: Van Pelt Library HA201 1970 .A542

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

moleskine city notebook

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Windows on Urban Poverty

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.

Milken Institute Indexes

"Capital Access Index scores the ability of entrepreneurs to gain access to financial capital in countries around the world." Other indexes include: Best Performing Cities Index, State Technology & Science Index, Cost-of-Doing-Business Index (compares costs in different states). Site also has access to Milken Institute research papers and policy briefs which focus on how to "stimulate growth and create opportunity in lagging regions of the United States and global markets

Census of Governments PDF Publications

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

Finances of Municipal and Township Governments: 2002 (pdf)

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

Archiving Seattle

"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

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 Networks - The disaster in New Orleans

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

Image of the city.

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.