Resources on urban studies from external institutions

Choose from the following fields:

• Globalization and City Management
• City Strategy and Governance
• Urban Finance
• Private-Public Provision of Urban Infrastructure
• Land and Real Estate Markets
• Urban Poverty
• Urban Environment
• Urban Transport

Globalization and City Management

• Canadian Urban Institute
• Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
• Centre for Developing Cities
• Ciudades Para Un Futuro Más Sostenible
• Emerging World Cities in Pacific Asia
• German Institute of Urban Affairs
• The Global Urban Observatory
• IIED-Human Settlements
• Institut d'Estudis Metropolitans de Barcelona
• Local Government Center
• Management of Change in the Era of Economic Austerity
• United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UN-Habitat)
• Urban Development Institute
• The Urban Institute

City Strategy and Governance

• Association of Bay Area Governments
• Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme
• Best Practices Database, UN-HABITAT
• CITYNET—The Regional Network of Local Authorities for the Management of Human Settlements
• City of San Carlos, California
• Confederación Uruguaya de Entidades Cooperativas
• City Mayors
• Decentralization, Democracy, and Development
• East St. Louis Community Assistance and Development Project
• FUCVAM—Federación Uruguaya de Cooperativas de Viviendas por Ayuda Mutua
• Governance and Anti-Corruption Resource Center of the World Bank Institute
• Habitat II—by Linkages
• Innovations and Excellence in Local Governance
• Inter-American Foundation
• International City/County Management Association
• Legacy of Habitat: Issues of Governance (PDF file, 56kb)
• Local Government Capacity Building
• National League of Cities

Urban Finance

• Finance and Cities in the 21^st Century: The View from the World Bank
• Fiscal Strengthening of Local Government in Mexico
• Governing Metropolitan Areas: Institutions, Finance and Partnerships
• Political Decentralization and Subnational Industrial Policy in Contemporary Brazil and Spain

Private-Public Provision of Urban Infrastructure

• Alternative Methods of Service Delivery
• Budapest: Privatization (PDF file, 53kb)

Land and Real Estate Markets

• Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
• Bangkok, Thailand: The Case of Three Slums (PDF, 204kb)
• Bombay Metropolitan Region
• CERES Land Use Planning Information Network (LUPIN)
• El Centro de investigaciones en geomática (CRG) de la Facultad de silvicultura y geomática de la Universidad Laval de Quebec, Canada
• El Insituto Geográfico Augustín Codazzi, Colombia
• Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies
• International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC), The Netherlands
• Lao PDR: Land Management
• L'ESGT, Ecole Superieure de Geometre Topographe, France
• Lincoln Land Policy Institute
• Rental and Shared Sub-markets in Informal Settlements
• UN-ESCAP: Municipal Land Management in Asia
• United Nations Sustainable Development: Land Management Issues

Urban Poverty

• Alianzas
• Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
• Urban Upgrading

Urban Environment

• Asia Pacific: Local Agenda 21
• Asia: Urban and Environmental Issues
• Case Studies on Strategic Sanitation Approach
• Climate Protection Solutions
• Climate Solutions
• The Earth Council
• Enda Tiers-Monde
• Environment Canada
• La Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN)
• Hong Kong: Friends of the Earth
• International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
• International Environmental Agency for Local Governments
• IUCN: The World Conservation Union
• Pembina Institute
• Regional Center for Central and Eastern Europe
• Singapore Green Plan
• Strategic Environmental Planning and Management
• Urban Environmental Management: Virtual Library
• World Resources Institute

Urban Transport

• Canadian Urban Transit Association
• Car-free Cities: Past, Present, and Future
• Centre for Sustainable Transportation
• European Federation for Transport and Environment
• Institute for Transportation And Development Policy
• International Association of Public Transport
• International Institute for Surface Transportation
• Jakarta Metropolitan Area: Transportation Systems and Land Use Patterns
• UC Berkeley—Institute of Transportation Studies
• University of Sydney—Institute of Transport Studies
• University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, Center for Urban Transportation Studies