This journal published literature reviews on topics across the field of political science.  It gives you access to the field through the discussion of important books, journal articles and reports relevant to your topic. 

This two-volume encyclopedia provides articles on topics ("African Americans in Suburbs," "Suburban Ideal,"and "township.")  There are also articles on some major cities and prominent suburbs as well as biographies of historians, architects, and activists.

Find links here to directory pages (American Hometowns), lists of mayors (U.S. Mayors), organizations, and statistics.

The University of Michigan Government Documents Library has put together this extensive guide to resources.  There are sections on directories, government publications, municipal codes and laws, government associations, policy literature, and statistics.

A directory of links for municipal codes available on the Web.

A geographic and topical listing of government agencies including individual cities, towns, and other municipalities.

A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Check for municipal reports and other publications as well as for material about your town.

Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 600 newspapers around the United States.   Database generally covers 1977 to the present.

Provides direct links to nearly 4 thousand daily and weekly newspapers in the U. S.  Many charge for articles, but their archives may allow you to identify important articles you can get free on microfilm through Interlibrary Loan  http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/illb/

Full-text of thousands of U. S. newspapers going back in most cases to 1980.

This membership page gives information on over two thousand suburban newspapers with URLs to their Web sites.

This subscription service is available through the Legal Searches section of Lexis Nexis.

You will need to choose U. S. Supreme Court Cases, Lawyers' Edition in the Select Sources box.

Cases online date back to 1790.  Briefs, oral argument transcripts, and secondary sources are linked to the opinions.

Tracks state bills, finds state statutes and regulations, and search state legislative reports and other policy-concerned media.

This directory provides links for all fifty states to decisions by state courts, including state supreme courts.  There is additional supporting material in terms of legislation, regulatory material, and agency home pages.

Lexis Nexis brings together full text articles from law review journals.  Frequently these articles provide the most detailed analysis of individual cases and legal trends.  Use the Select Sources drop down menu to specify either the complete group of law reviews or a subset/s by topical area.

Citations to articles in architectural and related journals covering architecture, city planning, urban design, and related disciplines

"The HUD USER Database is the only bibliographic database exclusively dedicated to housing and community development issues. It contains more than 10,000 full-abstract citations to research reports, articles, books, monographs, and data sources in housing policy, building technology, economic development, urban planning, and a host of other relevant fields." (Website- About)

Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, intergovernmental, and private organizations reports. Areas covered include political, economic, social and public policy issues. Covers 1915-present.

Provides online access to full-text reports on public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers.Covers a wide range of topics.

Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.

Use the Tripod Catalog to look for relevant books owned by Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore.

The following subject searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then using the subject headings assigned to those materials to find more material.

          suburbs united states [Subject Search]

          suburb* environment* [Keyword Search]

          evanston illinois [Keyword Search]

Tripod - For locating books, journals, and other materials held in the Tri-College libraries. Delivery within the trico usually arrives in one or two days. Use "Request" option. You can mark and then email or print records for multiple items.

WorldCat - An important place to look for many policy materials not owned by the Tri-College Libraries. 

Interlibrary Loan  - Request items that are not available in Tripod on this page. Use Article Delivery for journal articles not in the three colleges.  Note that PALCI E-Z Borrow provides only books.   Interlibrary Loan (ILL) supplies books not in E-Z Borrow as well as reports and documents. E-Z Borrow takes around three days to deliver your requested books, and ILL may take somewhat longer.

Hosted by the U.S. Census Bureau, this website provides access to population, housing, economic and geographic data from the latest Decennial Census, the Economic Censuses and Surveys, and the American Community Survey. Users can view reference maps and create comparison tables and thematic maps which can be downloaded or printed.

This site gathers together data from more than 100 government agencies.  It makes searching for statistics easier because it treats material by topic, and it links to relevant sets of data across governmental departments.

This search page provides statistical data on suburbs as well as cities and metropolitan areas.  There are a variety of economic, demographic, and housing statistics as well as data on crime.

This Web page includes references to related articles as well as a link to the University of Wisconsin Institute paper.
ABSTRACT: This paper presents a test of the hypothesis that employers in suburban locations are more likely to discriminate against African Americans than are employers located in central cities. Using a difference-in-difference framework, we compare central-city/suburban differences in racial hiring outcomes for firms where a white person is in charge of hiring (white employers, for short) to similar geographic differences in outcomes for firms where a black person is in charge of hiring (black employers). We find that both suburban black and white employers hire fewer blacks than their central-city counterparts. Moreover, the central-city/suburban hiring gap among black employers is as large as, or larger than, that of white employers. Suburban black employers, however, receive many more applications from blacks and hire more blacks than do white firms in either location.

A report on America's older, "inner ring" suburbs by Robert Puentes and David Warren.

For the last several decades middle-class families have been fleeing from the cities to the suburbs, in part because many parents see the suburbs, and suburban public schools in particular, as refuges from the disorder and social collapse they see as endemic to America's urban school districts. Parents believe that suburban public schools provide children with safer, more orderly, and more wholesome environments than their urban counterparts. This report finds that those perceptions are unfounded.

Rutgers University collaborated with HUD to produce a detailed statistical database on 77 major cities and their suburbs.