Research Guides: Urban Planning & Public Policy: Demography

Key Sites

Current Social Science Research Reports
Current Social Science Research Reports (CSSRR) are weekly reports that help researchers keep up to date with the latest developments in the fields of sociology, economics, and health.
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Each report is internally linked to the other reports, as well as to the main index. Notification subscription information is also available at the site. CSSRRs, along with all of the previous Current Demographic Research Reports (CDERRs) are now searchable from the CSSRR page listed above. Simply click in the white search box to remove the words "Google Custom Search" and then enter your terms.
Cyburbia
Large collection of Internet resources relevant to planning, architecture, urbanism, growth and sprawl, and other topics related to the built environment.
Global Distribution of Poverty
A site that provides dozens of maps which document the geographical and biophysical conditions relating to where the poor are located worldwide.
Indigenous Mapping
The Indigenous Mapping Network, an affiliate of the Seventh Generation Fund, is an organization that acts as a conduit for native individuals and groups to meet, to build relationships, and to assist one another in accomplishing sovereign goals.
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The current IMN Talking Circle members are fluent in modern mapping technologies. They are concerned about how indigenous approach, and are approached by, modern mapping methods and how they differ from traditional “mapping” ways of explaining one’s relation to place and space.
LexisNexis Statistical Universe (UCI Access Only)
Includes: American Statistics Index (ASI), Index to International Statistics (IIS), and Statistical Resource Index (SRI). For example, you can limit your search to statistics published by "International and Intergovernmental sources (IIS)."
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Social Geography
An open-access journal, Social Geography is primarily concerned with the interrelation of society, practice and space and its implications for environmental and social policy.
Sprawl City
This site is about consumption growth and population growth and their roles in the urban spawl that destroys natural habitat and farmland around U. S. cities. Particularly rich for Los Angeles coverage on the "LA Smart Growth Model."
Urban Cartography
This collaborative blog discusses mapping, GIS, land use, urban planning, and relate subjects. The posts are serachable, and an RSS feed is available.

Demographic & Population Studies

California Center for Population Research
Many of the documents and working papers have been deposited in eScholarship.org at http://escholarship.org/uc/ccpr
Center for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Recognized academic program devoted to global health.
Center for Migration Studies
An institute devoted exclusively to understanding and educating the public on the causes and consequences of human mobility. Releases many publications.
European Values Study
A large-scale, cross-national and longitudinal survey research program of basic human values that has been updated for over 30 years.
National Survey of Households and Families, Working Papers Series
Research conducted at the University of Wisconsin's Center for Demography and Ecology.
Population Reference Bureau - World Population Data
Population Research Institute
Major source of information on population.
Urban Institute
A rich source of information on population, immigration, labor and other demographic measures.
World Population and Fertility Planning Technologies: The Next 20 Years
World Values Survey
A source of where to learn about cultural change in societies from around the globe.