The Urban Mosaic on the Internet

The Urban Mosaic on the Internet

You can learn more about cities and suburbs on the Internet at the following web sites:

The Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester

http://www.le.ac.uk/ur/index.html

This site is a wonderful portal for researching the history of urban form online.

Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb

http://www.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown

Here you can find a history of Levittown, New York, the first mass-produced suburb, with interesting historical and contemporary photographs.

The Skyscraper Museum

http://www.skyscraper.org/home.htm

The Skyscraper Museum in New York City runs this site and provides extremely useful information and virtual tours of tall buildings around the world.

The State of the Nation’s Cities: A Comprehensive Database on American Cities and Suburbs

http://policy.rutgers.edu/cupr/sonc/sonc.htm

This site is a comprehensive database on 77 American cities and suburbs that you can download onto your computer and display in graphic form.