USEFUL WEBSITES (the new assignment is below this post)

Useful Websites:

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http://www.archive.org/details/naropa

While not directly related to the contado project, this is a very cool and useful site for research related to Beat/SF poetics. It is the audio archive for Naropa University (the Buddhist university where Ginsberg, assorted Beats, and others ran a school of poetry). There are hundreds of lectures on poetry/poetics and readings. Great resource.

http://www.bayareavision.org/bayarea/index.html

Website for an organization that does a lot of thinking, lobbying, and planning for sustainable growth and practices in the Bay Area.

http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/sindex.htm

Great site with tons of historical and archival materials related to SF and the Bay Area. Excellent for old maps, articles, images, etc. Make sure you check this out – even if it is only for curiosity’s sake.

http://www.oac.cdlib.org

Another good archival resource run by the University of California Library’s Digital Library. I haven’t explored this site much but it seems like it would be very useful for the Contado assignment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bay_area

Good for getting started and for finding other resources. Check the “References” section at the bottom of the article. As mentioned in the Contado Assignment, you are encouraged to use wikipedia but you should ALWAYS GO BEYOND. When you read something interesting in wikipedia, check the citation for this piece of information and, if available, go to that source. Try not to cite wikipedia as the authority. Use it as a guide to other resources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:San_Francisco_Bay_Area_geography_stubs

Another good wikipedia resource. Contains a broad list of Bay Area geographical entities.

http://www.bopsecrets.org

Another site that might not relate directly to this assignment, but it is useful for this course and it is pretty cool. If you are wondering what this figure of the flaneur is, this has some good theoretical resources. It is translations of “Situationist” documents-mostly from Paris in the 60s. It also has some interesting critiques of urban life and space from a specific historical and spatial context. **Check out the sections of graffiti, really cool**

http://www.archive.org/index.php

The Internet Archive Project is a very interesting project to create a free and open-source library on the web. I have barely scratched the surface of this resource, but it promises to be useful for a broad variety of projects. Do some exploration.

http://youtube.com

You never know what kind of interesting and weird stuff is out there. When you know your object of study, do some searching and see if there are any videos about it. Sometimes there are independent documentaries made about places, communities, and objects.

http://www.deepoakland.org/

Website on Oakland mentioned in lecture by Rob. Good resources, articles, and ideas for original projects.

http://baynature.org/

Good resource for thinking about the Bay Area as a bioregion.

http://www.werc.usgs.gov/bioregions.html

More on bioregions.