UIC LIBRARY RESOURCES: 1. SUBJECT-AREA LIST OF SELECTED DATABASES - to find journal articles and other publications relevant to your topic 2. ONLINE CATALOGS such as UICCAT - to find out if the UIC library has the item or ILLINET -- to find the item at one of 40+ participating Illinois libraries. 3. ELECTRONIC JOURNALS AND NEWSPAPERS - to access the full-text of journals online 4. ELECTRONIC REFERENCE SHELF - to access the full text of online reference resources, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias and directories.
How to cite on-line or electronic sources and other frequently asked RESEARCH PAPER FORMAT questions.
CYBURBIA "Cyburbia (formerly called PAIRC - The Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Center) contains a comprehensive directory of Internet resources relevant to planning, architecture, built environment. Cyburbia also contains information about architecture and planning related mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups, and hosts several interactive message areas." THIS SITE IS AMAZING!
Special Edition of FEED magazine on the urban environment. Very good. Check out the piece on Le Corbusier's "Contemporary City for Three Million"
If you're considering a project on music in chicago, start here: "The Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) at Columbia College Chicago documents, collects, preserves, and disseminates information about black music in all parts of the world and promotes understanding of the common roots of the music, musicians, and composers of the global African diaspora."
Another amazing Chicago web reference is JAZZ AGE CHICAGO: Urban Leisure from 1893 to 1934 "One of the most remarkable developments in the city of Chicago during the early twentieth century was the growing diversity of its resident population. Between 1900 and 1930, thousands upon thousands of European immigrants, African-Americans, and rural Midwestern youths relocated to Chicago in search of steady work and broader social opportunities. Intrigued by their new urban surroundings, they embraced new forms of commercial culture that made social interaction in the multi-ethnic, multi-racial city easier and more enjoyable. Many of the city's department stores, movie theaters, and amusement parks proved successful by offering settings in which Chicagoans of all backgrounds could partake in city life as equals. By popularizing not just jazz music, but countless other amusements as well, Jazz Age Chicagoans laid the groundwork for the spread of mass culture across the nation during the twentieth century. This web site examines some of the ways by which this occurred." This amazing web site was created by a PhD student at DePaul. It features one of the best guides to reseach in Chicago that I've seen on the web.
The Center for Neighborhood Technology "The Center for Neighborhood Technology has a unique mission: To invent and implement new tools and methods that create livable urban communities for everyone. Urban communities and metropolitan regions are growing rapidly. At the Center for Neighborhood Technology, we believe that this combination of economic growth and accelerating urbanization holds the promise of a better life for the world's population, because cities are the key to equitable wealth creation, efficient resource use and livable communities." Click here for more technology and community links
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Chicago Historical Society "The Historical Society's vast research collections are available for study in the Research Center. These collections include: Books and Other Published Materials, Archives and Manuscripts, Prints and Photographs, and the Charles F. Murphy Architectural Study Center." Check out: GLOBAL COMMUNITIES: Chicago's Immigrants and Refugees."Reflecting global trends, Chicago has seen a tremendous population shift since 1945. Historically a city largely populated by European and African Americans, Chicago attracted people from all over the globe after World War II, becoming one of the most ethnically, racially, and religiously diverse cities in the world by the 1980s. To capture this great shift in the city's demographics, the Department of Historical Documentation at the Chicago Historical Society is launching an extensive documentation project, titled Global Communities: Chicago's Immigrants and Refugees. During the year 2000, public historians in the department will focus on Mexican, Southeast Asian, Polish and Asian Indian immigrants and refugees. As part of their efforts, the public historians will construct new ties to these communities through oral and video history interviews, photos and video documentation, and archival and three-dimensional material collection for the Historical Society's permanent collection. To create an in-depth historical portrait of each community, Global Communities will focus on the following research themes: work, culture, politics, built environment, and institution building." There are also on-line projects on the Haymarket Riots and the Great Fire.
Another ongoing project at the CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: "My History is Your History is a project whose goal is to work with communities to create an up-to-date history of Chicago. The project strives to build on the long-standing partnership between CHS and four Chicago communities: Douglas/Grand Boulevard, Rogers Park/West Ridge, Pilsen/Little Village, and the Near West Side/East Garfield Park. Since 1993, our collaboration with these communities through our Neighborhoods: Keepers of Culture project has led to four exhibitions and many public programs that highlighted each area's rich and diverse legacy."
Chicago in the Year 2000 "Our goal is to create an archive showing the texture of city life, its joys, tragedies, rituals and surprises. We want to create a diary of Chicago, in pictures and words, that captures the everyday lives of Chicagoans. We want to tell the story of Chicago's year."
CNN.com feature on Jane Jacobs "For nearly 40 years author Jane Jacobs, 84, has helped define an increasingly influential way of looking at cities, whether celebrating small business or opposing 'slum' clearance and 'suburban sprawl'" More on Jane Jacobs and New Urbanism.
Design Matters: Best Practices in Affordable Housing "Quality design can be affordable. Affordable housing can embody quality design. The City Design Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago is illustrating these basic principles by compiling Design Matters, the first Internet catalog of outstanding affordable housing design."
Chicago Imagebase "The Chicago Imagebase is a Web-based project aimed at enhancing knowledge about the built environment of the Chicago region. On this site you will find a wide variety of images and other data along with information on how to use this data to study the city."