Humanities: Architecture/Urban Planning

1. Art and Architecture Thesaurus Browser
   Search or browse"The AAT is a comprehensive vocabulary of nearly 120,000 terms for describing objects, textural materials, images, architecture and material culture from antiquity to the present." From the Getty Information Institute.

2. American Institute of Architects Architect Finder
   Search for an architectural firms by state, city, building type, and type of service through thousands of listings in over 300 AIA offices around the U.S.

3. Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America
   " ... the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures." Search by keyword or browse by subject. From the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress.

4. National Trust for Historic Preservation Historic Sites
   Small group of famous NTHP sites. Includes contact information, hours of operation, and brief history of site.

5. National Register of Historic Places
   Search for over 80,000 entries in the official database of the National Register of Historic Places by state or county (nearly 50 entries listed for Albemarle County alone). Entries include site name, address, date listed, and NRHP number.

6. Great Buildings Online
   Search for over 750 great buildings from around the world. Also offers advanced searching or browse by architect, location, building name, and more.

7. Frank Lloyd Wright - Buildings
   Listings of Wright buildings by location. Search the PBS Building Locator by ZIP code, state, or building type for existing FLW structures.

8. Cities/Buildings Database
   Database of thousands of jpeg images from over 30 countries around the world. From Meredith Clausen at the University of Washington School of Architecture and the University Libraries.

9. Emporis.com
   Emporis Buildings is the world's largest publicly available database on architectural and building data. The site is maintained by Emporis, a multinational real estate research company, and is designed as an open platform. As an open platform, Emporis Buildings allows users from all over the world to participate in the completion of building information in their own cities. The goal is to index all buildings and structures in order to be able to compare cities.

10. Urban Planning Bibliography
    "Urban Planning, 1794-1918: An International Anthology of Articles, Conference Papers, and Reports." Search by author, publication date, and author. Compiled by John W. Reps (Cornell University).

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