Community & Urban Research Guide: Home

This guide includes information on performing community research. There are sections on:

• Finding news
• Searching the American Community Survey (ACS) and U.S. Decennial Census.
• Local and community resources
• Downloading articles
• and more.

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• OECD (2023), Smart City Data Governance: Challenges and the Way Forward, OECD Urban Studies, OECD Publishing, Paris.
• Mayor Adams Launches Historic Effort to Build "A Little More Housing in Every Neighborhood" 2023-09-21
• Download historical Atlases of New York City and Maps of New York City and State from the New York Public Library Map Division.
• Global Registry of Fossil Fuel Emissions and Reserves is a public database of fossil fuel production and reserves worldwide that tracks their impact on the carbon budget.
• Census Survey Explorer – Discover U.S. Census Bureau surveys or censuses by filtering and searching by geography, frequency, topics, and subtopics.
• Mapping community resources for disaster preparedness: humanitarian data capability and automated futures
• A new interface update, to define a service area neighborhood in data.census.gov, click maps, then layers, then select census tract.
• A glimpse into New York City at the turn of the 20th century can now be viewed at an exceptional level of detail on the recently launched website Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas.
• The Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center launches the U.S. Climate Resilience Map: A Pathway for City Solutions.
• Census Bureau Releases New Community Resilience Estimates Data Equity Resource.