Epitome Movies: Slums
& Skyscrapers
Juxtapose two YouTube movies to capture at once our course project
ASU Library Guide for our course
BBC News: Interactive Map on Urban
Growth
Fascinating interactive world map that shows the location of cities with over 5 million population from
1955 to 2015.
Global Cities Exhibit--Tate Modern (London) 2007
Terrific web exhibit integrates text, images, movies on key global cities and urban concepts.
(site may be defunct)
BBC
News: Quiz on the World's Cities
Test your urban knowledge with this short quiz!
Emporis
"Emporis.com is the world's largest free-to-use website about buildings. Professionals and people with an interest in structures can find buildings, developments, and
photos in more than 60,000 cities worldwide." Here you can find a list of the 200 tallest skyscrapers, and also look up the tall buildings in individual cities around the
world.
2010 Global Cities Index (Foreign Policy Magazine)
Go to Blackboard to access pdf's of these, as they're not easily accessible on the web.
Business Week did a story on this Global Cities Index, and
it's got a nice slide show of scenes from the top cities.
UN-HABITAT for a Better Urban Future
It's mission: to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all.
Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report on Human Settlements Development Planning Unit, University College London
Global City Migration Map
The excellent Migration Policy Institute offers a set of mappings and data for cities around the world with a high percentage or number of foreign born residents. There
are maps and also you can look up individual cities.
This draws on data from GUM (Globalization, Urbanization, and Migration) , a
project of George Washington University Center for the Study of Globalization. Here you can choose a country and it will give you the migration data for several decades, and you can often
click on the major cities and get a detailed chart. USEFUL FOR IDENTIFYING WHEN FOREIGN MIGRATION IS A FACTOR IN URBAN GROWTH, AND FROM WHERE MIGRANTS ARE COMING
SkyscraperPage.com
Great resource for finding major cities. Can view the listings by world region, country or cities, as well as sort by population size, by number of skyscrapers,
etc. The list contains 380 cities with over 1 million population (Phoenix is number 250!), and 33 cities with over 5 million population.
World Trade Center Association
Highlight includes maps that let you find World Trade Centers all over the world (existing and planned).
Traveler IQ Challenge
Practice your geographical knowledge with this free online game--the main task is to identify where cities and famous places are on a map of the world.
Globalization and World Cities Research Network
"Centred in the Geography Department at Loughborough University, this research network focuses upon the relations between world cities.
TED: Hans
Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
20 min video showing animated statistics--quite amazing!