Geography/Regional Planning
Airline Traffic and Urban Economic Development
http://www.igpa.uiuc.edu/publications/pdf/airports5.pdf
Professor Jan K. Brueckner has written
this 25-page working paper (in conjunction with the Institute of Government
and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) that
explores the economic benefits that might be accrued by a metro area
(specifically Chicago) by increased airline traffic.
Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
http://www.csiss.org/
Funded primarily by the National Science Foundation, the
Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science's primary mission is "to
develop unrestricted access to tools and perspectives that will advance the
spatial analytic capabilities of researchers throughout the social
sciences."
Congress for the New Urbanism
http://www.cnu.org/
New Urbanist movement in architecture and
town planning began in the United States as an effort to alleviate the
pattern of urban and suburban sprawl that was a common element of post-World
War II development around the country.
Down the Drain: Chicago's Sewers, The Historic
Development of an Urban Infrastructure
http://www.chipublib.org/digital/sewers/sewers.html
The Special Collections Division of the
Chicago Public Library has developed this well-thought out site in order to
shed some light on the history and development of this unique part of the
city's underground infrastructure.
HUD: Community Renewal
Initiative
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/
Based on ideas developed in
the United Kingdom, the Community Renewal Initiative
(operated under the auspices of the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development), was launched in 1994
under President Bill Clinton. Features frequent
updates on new program incentives, along with a number
of important documents, such as the recent publication
Tax Incentives + Businesses = Jobs.
Inside Chiquibul: Photographing Central
America’s Longest Cave
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/chiquibul/intro.html
From National Geographic.com comes the Inside Chiquibul:
Photographing Central America’s Longest Cave Web site.
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