AED Econ 680
The Economics of Growth and Sprawl
in America’s Countryside
Data and Information Resources on the WebData Sources (Ohio and National)For various kinds of demographic, economic, etc. data and links: Regional Economic Data from EconData.net: http://www.econdata.net/ Government Information Sharing Project, Oregon State U: http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/index.html
Population and Housing · American Fact Finder, U.S. Census Bureau: http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet o This is an interactive data retrieval tool that allows you to specify a town, city, county, or state and retrieve basic population and housing data for 1990 and 2000. · Ohio Department of Development: http://www.odod.state.oh.us/osr/cen2000.htm · Ohio Department of Development County Profiles: http://www.odod.state.oh.us/osr/profiles/default.htm · Exurban Change Project http://aede.osu.edu/programs/exurbs/ o This website has population data for Ohio counties at the township level (go to the “Township Tool” button). Also available are maps illustrating population change. · OSU Extension Data Center http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~dataunit/
Economic/Business U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/econ97.html Ohio Department of Development County Indicators:http://www.odod.state.oh.us/osr/2k-indic.htm Bureau of Economic Analysis: http://www.bea.doc.gov/
Agriculture · Census of Agriculture: http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/ Land Use · National Resources Inventory (NRI) data for Ohio counties: click here to download Excel file o For more information go to the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service website
Transportation plan for Central Ohio
For northern Ohio data: http://nodisnet1.csuohio.edu/nodis/index.html
Websites by Topic Sprawl/growth (from all viewpoints) Sierra Club sprawl site: http://sierraclub.org/sprawl/ Plannersweb Sprawl Resource Guide: http://www.plannersweb.com/sprawl/home.html Washington Post series on sprawl: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/library/growth/ Columbus Dispatch series on sprawl: http://www.dispatch.com/news/special/priceofprogress/priceofprogress.html GAO Survey of Local Growth Issues: http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/lgi/front.html Sprawlwatch Clearinghouse: http://www.sprawlwatch.org/ Sprawl Net: http://riceinfo.rice.edu/~lda/Sprawl_Net/Home.html 10,000 Friends of PA: http://www.10000friends.org/Web_Pages/Resources/TEN1_Res_Links.htm USA Today sprawl series: http://www.usatoday.com/news/sprawl/main.htm Yahoo sprawl search: A Free Market Guide to Sprawl and Growth: http://www.cei.org/MonoReader.asp?ID=664 Demographia (Wendell Cox): http://www.demographia.com/ Free-market.net Directory on sprawl issues: http://www.free-market.net/directorybytopic/sprawl Independence Institute Growth Issues: http://i2i.org/ResearchAreas/Growth/index.htm Ohio Environmental Growth Alliance: http://www.ohiogrowth.com/home.htm Reason Public Policy Institute: http://www.rppi.org/ Buckeye Institute Center for Quality Growth: http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/myweb/quality.htm
Transportation Transportation Research Board: http://nationalacademies.org/trb/ Surface Transportation Policy Project: http://ww.transact.org Land Use Impact Analysis for I-71, Cuyahoga Planning Commission: http://planning.co.cuyahoga.oh.us/i71/index.htm
Farmland preservation: American Farmland Trust: http://www.farmland.org/
Smart Growth Network: http://www.smartgrowth.org/index2.html Sustainable Communities Network: http://www.sustainable.org/index.html **As you surf the web and discover additional data
websites, please share these with me so that I can share them with the rest of
the class.
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