links
radio
+ whcr, harlem
+ kpoo, sf
+ radio nova, paris
+ wkcr, columbia university
columbia university
+ urban planning
reference section
+ columbia library
--< clio
--< jstor
--< oxford reference online
+ dictionaries
--< oxford english
--< korean <--> english
--< babel fish
+ news
--< bbc news
--< cbc news
--< chosun ilbo
--< factiva news
--< guardian
--< ny times
+ scholar.google.com
ny weather - noaa
mail
+ cubmail
+ gmail
+ yahoo!
entertainment
+ freewill astrology
+ mangoat dot net
+ metafilter.com
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architecture
+ archigram [ late 1960s architecture: instant city, plug-in city, etc. ]
+ basilisk [ contemporary architecture, including greg lynn and ed keller ]
+ did you bring bottles? [ supermarket history and architecture ]
+ futuro-house.net [ painfully designed website dedicated to suuronen's attempt to provide mass housing ]
+ holl, stephen [ architect at columbia who does superb work ]
+ katarxis [ webzine dedicated exclusively to a New Traditional Architecture and Urbanism ]
+ loftcube [ berlin rooftop loft design for nomadic living by studio aisslinger ]
+ moscow architecture [ russian site about architecture in moscow, includes unrealized buildings from early soviet era ]
+ multiplicity [ architects who love borders ]
+ SHoP [ building in seoul ]
+ sears homes [ when sears sold complete homes ]
+ stalker [ laboratorio d'arte urbana ]
+ studio aisslinger [ modular design with modern materials ]

art
+ 5,000 museum links [ will connect you to any museum you can think of ]
+ agostino, lori [ a house of love production ]
+ cooper-hewitt [ national design museum, smithsonian ]
+ digital dada library [ original dada-era publications in the international dada archive at university of iowa ]
+ friedman, dave [ black and white nyc bridge photos ]
+ kanevsky, alex [ contemporary figurative painter based in Philadelphia ]
+ mad meg [ black ball point pen and notebook work ]
+ met [ the metropolitan museum of new york, need i say more? ]
+ odman, fredrik [ photography at "the meeting point between logic, imagination and madness" ]
+ reeve, thomas hudson [ papercams ]
+ traditional crafts of japan [ detailed site maintained bythe association for the promotion of traditional crafts ]
+ whitney museum of american art [ the whitney ]
+ wooster collective [ a celebration of street art ]
+ world of awe [ online alternative world traveller's site, part of whitney biennial ]

bookmaking
+ the book arts web [ book binding and book making ]

china
+ china data center [ massive compendium of data resources on china, courtesy university of michigan ]
+ mumford center for comparative urban and regional research [ dedicated to interdisciplinary research, statistics on chinese cities and an old nyc ward map, courtesy SUNY Albany ]

communications and television
+ lines of communication [ media and communication studies - online learning ]
+ pbs [ the public broadcasting system, virtually the only intelligent television available ]
+ semiotics for beginners [ brought to you by daniel chandler ]

computing and internet
+ how many online? [ nua.com provides incredible array of internet statistics, including number of users in each country ]
+ godaddy.com [ domain names...cheap, ICANN accredited ]
+ internet mapping project [ by cheswick and burch from bell and now lumeta ]
+ mini-itx.com [ modded computers ]
+ opte project [ internet mapping project ]
+ pair.com [ cheap web hosting that has been reliable so far ]
+ semanticweb.org [ explores semantic rather than syntactic organization of the web ]
+ slashdot [ news for nerds. stuff that matters. ]
+ top 500 [ top 500 supercomputer sites ]

data
+ census bureau [ source for u.s. population, economic, and housing data ]
--< census bureau--data set page [ uncomplicated access to all data sets ]
--< census bureau--new residential construction [ building permits ]
+ c-panda [ An interactive digital archive of data on the arts and cultural policy in the U.S., available for research and statistical analysis, with data on artists, arts and cultural organizations, audiences, and funding for arts and culture. ]
+ human life-table database [ a collection of population life tables covering a multitude of countries and many years ]
+ infoshare.org [ New York City population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local economic data, and much more. ]
+ international networks archive [ network datasets from Princeton ]

development
+ jubilee south [ website committed to debt relief ]
+ undp [ united nations development program ]
+ world bank [ the bank ]

economics and business
+ alexander's gas & oil connections [ extensive gathering of news on the global gas-, oil- and energy-developments ]
+ archive for history of economic thought [ courtesy mcmaster university, wherever that is ]
+ bureau of labor statistics [ us government ]
+ economy professor [ concise summaries on theories and theorists ]
+ econpapers [ economics at your fingertips ]
+ gulf oil and gas [ middle east and africa portal for oil & gas and hydrocarbon industries, includes company directories and news ]
+ history of economic thought website [ courtesy the new school, grouped by school of thought with sophisticated etchings for that classic look ]
+ kondratieff [ progenitor of long wave cycles ]
+ NYS dept of corp search page [ database of corporations in NYS ]
+ post-autistic economics network [ sanity, humanity and science - an attempt to save economics from itself ]
+ robert schalkenbach institute [ henry george fan club ]

economic sociology
+ socio site [ huge compendium of sources ]

engineering
+ kmoddl [ collection of mechanical models and related resources for teaching the principles of kinematics from cornell ]

environment
+ the detroit project [ suv's, oil, and terrorism ]
+ environmental history timeline [ plain but fast ]
+ trees new york [ for all things pertaining to trees in new york city ]

food
+ pasta plus [ lots of info on pasta and sauces ]
+ epicurus [ food and drink ]
+ nutrition data [ nutrient contents of foods and fast foods ]

government
+ governments on the www [ links to governments around the world and country info ]
+ undp [ united nations development program ]
+ world bank [ the bank ]

health
+ national center for health statistics [ center for disease control's data clearinghouse ]

history
+ authentic history.com [ photos and images from american history ]
+ don mabry's historical text archive [ links and primary sources of historical texts ]
+ contemporary postcolonial and postimperial literature in english [ need i say more? ]
+ long term change.net [ global academic exchange space for researchers interested in issues related to systemic change in world history ]
+ society and science [ timeline and index of history of science and social science ]

korea
+ housing and urban research institute [ research branch of knhc ]
+ korea national housing corporation [ housing construction and urban redevelopment ]
+ korea research institute for human settlements [ national level research institute ]
+ ministry of construction and transportation [ together again ]
+ stat-korea [ one-stop stop for korean statistics ]

linguistics
+ web of grammars [ sources for language learning ]

literature
+ nothingness.org [ archive of texts and sources on dadaism, situationism, and anarchism ]
+ ubuweb [ repository of avante garde poetry ]

mapping
+ alexandria digital library gazetteer [ provides very precise geographical coordinates for many types of features ]
+ census bureau [ source for u.s. population, economic, and housing data ]
--< census bureau--data set page [ uncomplicated access to all data sets ]
+ ciesin [ works at the intersection of the social, natural, and information sciences ]
+ david rumsey map collection [ insanely huge and wonderful historical map collection, includes many maps of Japanese cities from the uc berkeley collection, download the viewer ]
+ esri [ all the data that's fit to submit ]
+ ffiec [ gives you census tract for given address ]
+ find GIS [ lots of Florida-specific GIS data ]
+ geostat [ university of virginia geospatial and statistical data center ]
+ infoshare.org [ New York City population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local economic data, and much more ]
+ internet mapping project [ by cheswick and burch from bell and now lumeta ]
+ map history/history of cartography [ "the gateway to the subject" ]
+ old world traditional trade routes project [ supports online research in the field of dromography and provides public-access electronic archive of geo/chrono-referenced data on land, river and maritime trade routes of Eurasia and Africa during the period 10,000 BCE - circa 1820 CE ]
+ opte project [ internet mapping project ]
+ perry-casteneda library map collection [ university of texas map collection, one of the best ]
+ remote sensing and gis links [ a service for members of the remote sensing and photogrammetry society ]
+ usgs [ a mutha ]
+ visible earth [ catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet ]

mathematics
+ graph theory and its applications [ an ad for the text book and a list of resources ]

music
+ history of sampling v1.0 [ interactive graphic that illustrates links between samplers and sampled ]

news
+ aljazeera [ premiere arab news source ]
+ chosun ilbo [ korea's new york times ]
+ city limits.org [ news for nyc's nonprofit, policy and activist world, recommended by peter marcuse ]
+ gotham gazette.com [ nyc news and policy published by citizens union foundation ]
+ greg palast [ journalist and documentary film maker, author of the best democracy money can buy ]
+ haiti info [ news on Haiti collected from a variety of sources ]
+ joongan ilbo [ popular korean paper ]
+ ohmynews [ popular korean internet news service that accepts news reported by anyone (with factchecking) ]
+ people's daily [ official chinese state paper ]
+ the people's korea [ official DPRK state paper, in english ]
+ the people's korea [ official DPRK state paper, in korean ]
+ the world tribune [ an "american internet newspaper dedicated to offering its readers news of the day's most significant international developments" ]

philosophy
+ nothingness.org [ archive of texts and sources on dadaism, situationism, and anarchism ]
+ survey of cognitive and agent architectures [ survey of theories, properties, hypotheses, etc. from a group of students at the umich ]
+ timeline of western philosophy [ haven't looked at it closely ]

planning
+ ABOUT planning [ comprehensive planners' resource ]
+ brookings center on urban and metropolitan policy [ brookings, duh ]
+ bureau of transportation statistics [ us government bureau, see also transstats ]
+ census bureau [ source for u.s. population, economic, and housing data ]
+ census bureau--data set page [ uncomplicated access to all data sets ]
+ citta-slow [ italian site for slow city movement ]
+ citynoise.org [ a public photoblog for people with a love for the urban form, modern world, or a general appreciation of their environment ]
+ community economic toolbox [ penn state university's amy glassmeier put together this site that guides visitors through a series of economic development indicators for US counties ]
+ congress for the new urbanism [ the new urbanist experience ]
+ creativeclass.org [ richard florida's paean to himself and his research, academia gone wild ]
+ cyburbia [ urban planning portal ]
+ deadmalls.com [ people's thoughts about dying malls across america ]
+ demographia [ urban planning-oriented site with many demographic and economic statistics for cities around the world ]
+ did you bring bottles? [ supermarket history and architecture ]
+ how the other half lives [ jacob riis' classic photos of turn of the century new york slums, courtesy authentichistory.com ]
+ innovative transportation technologies [ alternative forms of rapit transit, highlights people movers ]
+ katarxis [ webzine dedicated exclusively to a New Traditional Architecture and Urbanism ]
+ kentlands [ new urbanist development by Zuany and Plater-Zyberk ]
+ kunstler, james howard [ author of 'geography of nowhere'. includes eyesore of the month, which should include the website itself ]
+ lincoln institute of land policy [ land policy thinktank ]
+ journal of the american planning association [ must be a columbia affiliate to access ]
+ metropolis magazine [ examines contemporary life through design ]
+ mumford center for comparative urban and regional research [ dedicated to interdisciplinary research, statistics on chinese cities and an old nyc ward map, courtesy SUNY Albany ]
+ nasa [ astronaut pictures of cities - use explorer or netscape 4 ]
+ next american city [ quarterly magazine that seeks economic development with social equity ]
+ nomadology [ modern experience ]
+ skyscraper museum [ check out manhattan timeformations ]
+ skyscrapers.com [ info and news on skyscrapers around the world ]
+ social utopias [ a select bibliography on the history of social utopias and modern urban planning to 1945 ]
+ tholos systems [ a third millennium take on the public square ]
+ transStats [ us bureau of transportation statistics database ]
+ transport geography on the web [ comprehensive history and theory of transport geography from hofstra university ]
+ undercity.org [ adventures under nyc ]
+ understanding your industries [ HHH Framework is a flexible approach for analyzing data towards an improved understanding an area's industries, provides explanations and tools for analysis, courtesy UMN ]
+ urban center books [ nyc book store ]
+ urban planning, 1794-1918 [ primary sources from cornell ]
+ urban residue [ urban theory and planning - great inks to articles ]
+ chicago
--<encyclopedia of chicago [ brought to you by chicago historical society, newberry library, and northwestern university ]
--<hull house and its neighborhoods, 1889-1963 [ images and information from the university of illinois ]
--<world's columbian exposition of 1893 [ images and information from illinois institute of technology ]
+ new york city
--< automated city register information system [ department of finance's online building ownership and tax information ]
--< american planning association [ the professional organization for planners ]
--< building information system [ buildings department's online record of building code restrictions and violations ]
--< center for an urban future [ nyc thinktank that fuses journalistic techniques with traditional policy analysis ]
--< city limits.org [ news for nyc's nonprofit, policy and activist world, recommended by peter marcuse ]
--< CosmoPolity [ promoting social capital in america's social capital--progressive nyc blog ]
--< department of city planning, new york city [ essential source for nyc planning ]
--< department of city planning zoning page [ nyc zoning maps and text ]
--< digital sanborn maps, 1867-1970 [ available to columbia students ]
--< gotham gazette.com [ nyc news and policy published by citizens union foundation ]
--< infoshare.org [ access to community data from the Urban Studies Department at Queens College, CUNY ]
--< LMDC [ Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, ferrying WTC proposals through the public and political machine ]
--< municpal arts society [ advocates excellence in urban design and planning, contemporary architecture, historic preservation and public art ]
--< new york city documents [ nyc government documents housed by columbia ]
--< nyc.gov [ portal for nyc ]
--< nychanis [ new york city housing and neighborhood information system, courtesy nyu ]
--< nycsubway.org [ fans of the nyc subway system ]
--< nypd crime statistics [ crime statistics by precinct ]
--< rpa [ regional plan association ]
+ san francisco
--< spur [ san fracisco planning and urban research association ]
+ shanghai
--< virtual shanghai [ over 2,000 historical photos of shanghai ]

political science
+ barberblog [ official website of benjamin barber, author of Jihad vs. McWorld ]
+ cia world factbook [ quick facts on countries ]
+ conflict map [ timeline of conflicts from nobelprize.org ]
+ encyclopedia of marxism
+ factcheck.org [ provided by the annenberg foundation ]
+ governments on the www [ links to governments around the world and country info ]
+ the keele guide to political thought and ideology on the internet [ much electronic text from keele university ]
+ nothingness.org [ archive of texts and sources on dadaism, situationism, and anarchism ]
+ rulers [ heads of state and heads of government of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 ]
+ marx and engels internet archive [ complete texts of all their writings ]
+ undp [ united nations development program ]
+ world bank [ the bank ]

radio
+ kpoo, sf [ greatest radio station the world has ever produced ]
+ radio france [ click on fip, supposedly similar to radio nova but fewer commercials ]
+ radio nova, paris [ apres la nuit, c'est la nuit ]
+ whcr, harlem [ the voice of harlem ]
+ wkcr, columbia university [ excellent jazz and jazz history among other musics ]

religion
+ the brights [ come out as an atheist ]
+ the internet sacred text archive [ sacred texts from around the world ]
+ the millennium ark [ giants, ufo's, god, and nuclear armageddon ]
+ raptureready.org [ everything you need to know about the rapture, including what to do if you're left behind ]

science
+ absolute happiness [ martin seligman's version of positive psychology, includes all the professional online personality tests you could desire ]
+ california institute for physics and astrophysics [ research institute dedicated to fundamental problems of physics and astrophysics with particular emphasis on the nature of the quantum vacuum ]
+ the edge [ to arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sphisticate minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves ]
+ sodaplay [ build and race your own muscled stick machines ]
+ the sante fe institute [ multidisciplinary collaborations among visiting and residential scientists from the physical, biological, computational, and social sciences ]
+ the temple of alife [ not sure it's science, but it has entertaining game of life graphics variations ]
+ union of concerned scientists [ citizens and scientists for environmental solutions ]
+ the whole brain atlas [ harvard medical lets you look at any cross-section of the brain ]
+ world climate [ weather, rainfall, and temperature data for over 85,000 locations around the world ]
+ the world of richard dawkins [ unofficial dawkins website with many useful links ]

search engines
+ google [ need i say more? ]
+ kartoo [ organizes data visually, a little slow but interesting ]

security
+ alligator's [ someone's fascination with guns, knives, bombs, and flashlights has produced an alluringly beautiful collection of mushroom cloud images ]
+ the federation of american scientists [ founded by members of the manhattan project ]
+ globalsecurity.org [ focused on innovative approaches to the emerging security challenges of the new millennium ]
+ nautilus institute [ security thinktank ]

shopping
+ barnes & noble [ the book store ]
+ craig's list [ all text postings of everything ]
+ labyrinth books [ one of the finest bookstores in the city ]
+ urban center books [ nyc book store ]

sociology
+ introduction to the frankfurt school [ a gentle, clear and concise introduction to the ideas and the philosophers of the Frankfurt school ]
+ introductory guide to critical theory [ dino falluga at perdue produced modules on (more contemporary) critical theory ]
+ long term change.net [ global academic exchange space for researchers interested in issues related to systemic change in world history ]
+ research on place and space [ draws together work on place and space from a variety of disciplines ]

sports
+ rugby heaven [ gentlemen acting like hooligans ]

statistics
+ applied multivariate statistical analysis [ online text by wolfgang hardle and leopold simar ]
+ lexicon of statistical modelling [ and related topics compiled by C. Patrick Doncaster ]
+ nist/sematech e-handbook of statistical methods [ national institute of standards and technology guide to statistics for engineers ]
+ r [ free statistical processing software package, reputedly very good, esp. for matrix operations ]

urban
+ bldg-blog [ architectural conjecture :: urban speculation :: landscape futures ]
+ urbanography [ urban history, includes gangs in five points, riots in 1857 nyc, and hollywood ]

world city network
+ ancient routes [ description of travel routes around the mediterranean from the beginning of writing to 400AD by rod baird ]
+ brief history or civilization and urbanization [ straightforward timeline ]
+ gawc [ globalization and world cities - study group and network - taylor et al. ]
+ ge seaco [ all kinds of sea containers from the world's largest container lessee ]