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The UN-Habitat site is the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, focused on sustainable urban development and housing. It offers reports, data, policy guidance, and news on urban planning, housing, slum upgrading, and urban resilience worldwide.
More resources on Urban Geography
CitiesX: The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life
Explore what makes cities energizing, amazing, challenging, and perhaps humanity’s greatest invention.
Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Jacobs argues that city regions, not nations, are the real units of economic life, and that import-replacing cities drive growth. Explains why national currencies and subsidies can mask stagnation in regions dependent on distant cities.
citylab.com
CityLab is a publication devoted to urban life and city policy, exploring how cities are planned, governed, and transformed. It offers news, features, and data-driven stories on housing, transportation, zoning, design, and urban equity, often accompanied by visuals and interactive maps.
The Urban Revolution
Lefebvre's 1970 argument that industrial society is giving way to complete urbanization, introducing the urban as its own analytic field. Dense Marxist and structuralist theory; expect to work through concepts like urban society and centrality.
aag.org/topics/urban-geography
An AAG resource page focused on urban geography, covering core topics like city form, urbanization, and spatial processes, with related research, teaching materials, and links for students and scholars.
Sustainable Cities
SDG Academy course, curated by Aromar Revi with faculty from UN-Habitat, universities and city governments, on urban development under the Sustainable Development Goals. Covers urbanization trends, informal settlements, infrastructure, climate resilience, urban governance and finance, explaining how public and private actors shape sustainable cities.