URST 498: URST 498: Capstone in Urban Studies (Neill)

Below are some UNLV Library databases, books, and web resources focusing on urban issues and sustainability to assist you with your assignments.

Start with a basic keyword search. Here are a few examples:

• sustainability and building
• green architecture
• neighborhood beautification and community participation
• high school dropout rate and community engagement
• bullying in middle school and civic engagement
• local impacts and climate change
• energy and southwestern United States
• waste disposal
• public transportation
• solar energy
• waste disposal and research

• American Communities Project

  ACP used a wide range of different factors – everything from income to race and ethnicity to education to religious affiliation – and a clustering technique to identify 15 types of counties, everything from Big Cities to Aging Farmlands. It has mapped those types to show where the country’s political, socio-economic and cultural fissures are.
• Planetizen: A public-interest information exchange provided by Urban Insight for the urban planning, design, and development community
• Sustainable Cities Index: Explores the three demands of People, Planet and Profit to develop an indicative ranking of 50 of the world's leading cities.

• Center for Urban Policy Research (Rutgers University)

  The site features a description of CUPR's current research areas and projects, a list of its published books, policy reports and working papers, affiliated institute links and CUPR's periodical, CUPReport.
• Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research

  Established at the University of Albany, the Center honors the tradition of interdisciplinary scholarship established by Lewis Mumford (1895-1990), one of the most distinguished urbanists of the 20th Century. The site provides links to useful data sources, maps, teaching and educational material.
• Metropolitan Area Research Corporation (MARC)

  MARC is a non-profit research and geographic information systems (GIS) firm with a history of service to the public interest, government, philanthropy, academia, and private research institutions. MARC's expertise lies in presenting cutting edge demographic research through the striking spatial display of data.
• Metropolitan Policy Program (Brookings Institute)

  The Program provides decision makers with cutting-edge research and policy ideas for improving the health and prosperity of cities and metropolitan areas. The web site includes numerous research publications, policy briefs and commentary, and a bi-monthly newsletter. 

Office of Undergraduate Research-UNLV

• Student Research Opportunities-Council of Undergraduate Research

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• Jobs & Internships--Career Services--UNLV

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There are several great resources available to find data/statistics to analyze. Check out the tips & resources below:

Searching on Google is a great place to begin for looking for statistics. In order to obtain official and reliable data, you can limit your sources to government websites by typing site:.gov after your keywords.

Examples:
crime statistics site:.gov
recycling data site:.gov

City of Las Vegas Open Data

• NV State Quick Facts - US Census Bureau

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• NV Statistics & Censuses from NV State Library & Archives