Primary Urban Studies Government Information

Center City Philadelphia.org
Web nexus of information about Center City Philadelphia, including links to current publications regarding plans for the district....   [more]
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Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: CRL CAMP LAMP MEMP SAMP
The Penn Library participates in CRL's area studies programs. A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves tradition...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    CRL Catalog
    CRL Quick Search Page / General Overview
    CRL Area Studies Programs - CAMP, LAMP, MEMP, SAMP
    CRL Catalog: Newspapers search
    South Asia Microform Project - SAMP

Social Explorer
The Social Explorer produces maps and reports of US Census Tract level data from 1940-2000. Using high quality maps and data, they make available the full contents of the tract data for the United Sta...   [more]
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Important Urban Studies Government Information

American Legal Publishing's Municipal Code Library
Free online fulltext for municipal codes nationwide....   [more]
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Ancestry Library Edition
Genealogical collection covering the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas. T...   [more]

Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation
Also Known as: transtats
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    transstats - provides data for downloading

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Also Known as: CFDA
Descriptions of all federal programs available to state and local governments of the United States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; spec...   [more]
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Catalog of United States Census Publications, 1790-1972 (Dubester)
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Cities Online, United States Conference of Mayors
The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of the nation's 1183 U.S. cities with populations of 30,000 or more. Each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elec...   [more]
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    Links to official webpage for each city in the US

Civic Vision for the Central Delaware
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Consolidated Federal Funds Report
Also Known as: CFFR
Federal expenditures or obligations for the following categories: grants, salaries and wages, procurement contracts, direct payments for individuals, other direct payments, direct loans, guaranteed or...   [more]
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County Business Patterns - Metro Business Patterns - ZIP Code Business Patterns
Business establishment data for the U.S., its counties, metropolitan areas, and ZIP Codes, by NAICS and (for older years) SIC industrial classifications....   [more]
Holdings: 1996 and 1997; CD-ROM version available in Lippincott Library for years 1986 - 2001.
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Decennials - Census of Population and Housing
Also Known as: Historical census volumes
PDF-format versions of historic US decennial census volumes, 1790 to present. Topics covered include basic counts of population and housing, with race and gender, for the nation, states, counties, tow...   [more]
Holdings: 1790 to present (backfile in progress: 1790-1860, 1990-2000 available)
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eCode360.com - Municipal Code Library
Collection of browseable fulltext municipal and county law codes and ordinance collections. Includes codes for many Philadelphia-area towns, townships, and counties....   [more]
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Federal Assistance Award Data System
Also Known as: FAADS
Data on all types of financial assistance awards made by Federal agencies to all types of recipients, by quarter. Provides Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) program code number and name, t...   [more]
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Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s
- from Archives Unbound
Fulltext searchable collection of more than 87,000 document pages from the FBI Library covering 1956-1971 on individuals and organizations engaged in civil rights and anti-war activities. Reproduces f...   [more]

FedStats
Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies ...   [more]
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MuniCode Municipal Code Library
Also Known as: LexisNexis Municipal Codes Web Library
Fulltext (some restricted) for U.S. city and county law codes. Includes Philadelphia and Los Angeles County....   [more]
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National Crosswalk Service Center
Also Known as: xwalkcenter, NCSC, ALMIS
Provides concordances, indexes, and tools for comparing different U.S. government-produced occupational classifications and training program classifications. Crosswalks available include SOC or Standa...   [more]
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PennDOT Maps
Also Known as: Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
PDF and DjVU format maps showing Pennsylvania state roads and other transportation routes. Includes Pennsylvania statewide and county traffic count maps....   [more]
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Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development
Includes fulltext library of documentation on municipal and county government, including planning, budgeting, and training....   [more]
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Pennsylvania State Highway Video Inventory
Also Known as: PennDOT iVidLog Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Requres Internet Explorer 5 or higher and high-speed internet connection. Thumbnail-image "motion pictures" of Pennsylvania's 40,000-mile state highway system. Images spaced 20 feet a...   [more]
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Philadelphia Code and Charter
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Philadelphia Government, phila.gov
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PhillyHistory.org Mobile
Free. Photographic images of Philadelphia from the Philadelphia City Archives, which holds approximately 2 million photos dating from the late 1800s, as well as the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Some int...   [more]
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Proquest Congressional U.S. Serial Set 1789-Present
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Universe, U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection
Fulltext for House and Senate Documents and Reports, 1789-current, as well as other U.S. documents , such as Executive publications, often included in the Serial Set in earlier years. Still in progre...   [more]

Proquest Statistical Insight
Also Known as: Statistical Universe, lexisnexis statistical
Statistical Universe indexes statistical data published in federal, state, and selected privately published titles, at the table level. In some cases the fulltext of the document is also available....   [more]

REIS (Regional Economic Information System)
Available in Lippincott Library Only.
The REIS database provides local area economic data for states, counties, and metropolitan areas for 1969-1999. Statistics in the data base...   [more]
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Statistical Abstract of the United States - U.S. Census Bureau
Also Known as: Historical Statistics of the United States ;
The National Data Book. Annual statistics, 1878-present (with seperate volumes covering Colonial Times to 1970), covering population, vital statistics, health and nutrition, education, law enforcement...   [more]
Holdings: 1878-present (backfile in progress)
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TRACfed
Also Known as: TRAC Reports, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Trac Fed, TRAC
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Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS)
Also Known as: TRIS
TRIS Online is a joint project between the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and the Transportation Research Board (TRB). TRIS Online provides access to almost 450,000 records of published tra...   [more]
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U.S. Census - Research Guide
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U.S. Census Bureau
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U.S. Government Documents - Research Guide
Also Known as: U.S. Government Publications - Research Guide
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U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Finding aids, catalogs, research guides, and digitized documents for curricular use from NARA....   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    ARC - Archival Research Catalog
    Microfilm Publications Catalog
    Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States
    Digital Classroom

U.S. Serial Set (via GPO)
Fulltext of U.S. Congressional reports and documents, 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present....   [more]
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UNESDOC / UNESBIB
Also Known as: UNESCO Documents Collection
Fulltext or page image for UNESCO documents. Materials cover the subject areas of interest to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization): education, communication and in...   [more]
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World Bank E-Library
Fulltext PDF-format collection of more than 1,200 World Bank books, including all new titles and selected titles beginning in 1984. Topics covered include:agriculture, education, environment, finance,...   [more]

World Bank Research Datasets
Datasets compiled for World Bank research in agriculture, domestic and household finance, education, environment, globalization, governance, health, population and demography, industry, infrastructure...   [more]
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Related Urban Studies Government Information

Aging Statistics / U.S. Administration on Aging
Includes decennial census Special Tabulation on Aging, Key Indicators of Well Being...   [more]
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Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice
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Supplemental URLs
    BJS Data for Analysis
    Publications List

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (GPO)
Also Known as: MoCat, CGP, Monthly Catalog
This online catalog consists of bibliographic records published in the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT). Records describe Government information products avai...   [more]
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Census 2000 Special Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Tabulation
Also Known as: EEO Data Tool
Serves as the primary external benchmark for comparing the race, ethnicity, and sex composition of an organization's internal workforce, and the analogous external labor market, within a specified geo...   [more]
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    Descriptions and Additional Information

geo.data.gov
Also Known as: geodata.gov
A portal designed to make access and distribution of Federal geospatial data more efficient. It contains links to federal, state, and local websites where geospatial data can be downloaded....   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    Federal Geographic Data Committee

LAPTOC Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
Also Known as: LARRP
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC): provides article titles from the tables of contents over 800 periodicals published in Latin America and the Caribbean. They cover...   [more]
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NCJRS Virtual Library
Also Known as: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library
Identifies and links to fulltext U.S. federal publications on criminal justice....   [more]
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Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access
Also Known as: PASDA
The Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access system (PASDA) is Pennsylvania's official geospatial information clearinghouse. Included are Philadelphia municipal, census, and environmental shapefiles, as well ...   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    Philadelphia City Files

ProQuest Congressional
Also Known as: Congressional Universe, LexisNexis Congressional, Lexis Nexis Congressional
U.S. legislative publications and government information. Much of the material is fulltext. Includes pending bills, laws, legislative histories, committee reports and documents, Congressional heari...   [more]
Holdings: Varies with document series
Supplemental URLs
    new interface

UN ODS
Also Known as: United Nations Official Documents Search
UN ODS, also known as UN Official Documents Search or UN Optical Disk System, provides fulltext documents, official records, and resolutions of the United Nations covering all topics of concern to the...   [more]
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UNdata
The central statistical information service for the United Nations and its affiliates and international partners. Replaces UNSTATS....   [more]
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UNSTATS
Also Known as: United Nations Common Database, UNCDB
Time series statistical information for countries collected from UN and related international governmental organizations. Topics covered include population composition and change; human settlements, h...   [more]
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