Urban Studies

A nonprofit research organization for trusted source for unbiased, authoritative insights that inform consequential choices about the well-being of people and places in the United States.

UN-Habitat, the United Nations Programme for Human Settlements, was mandated by the UN General Assembly in 1978 to address issues of urban growth. UN-Habitat is the United Nations programme working towards a better urban future. Its mission is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all.

The Global Urbanist is an online magazine reviewing urban affairs and urban development issues in cities throughout the developed and developing world. Like a print magazine, [it] feature[s] articles that address contemporary issues or that weigh in on public policy debates.

Find blogs written by professionals from the World Bank. Urban development is one of its major topics.

A leading free-market think tank focusing on Economic Growth, Education, Energy and Environment, Health Care, Legal Reform, Public Sector, Race, & Urban Policy.

A quarterly magazine of urban affairs published by the Manhattan Institute.