Cities Lab is a collaborative research initiative is to facilitate comparative social science research on metropolitan growth, sprawl, and spatial structure. Cities Lab makes it possible for scholars interested in urban geography, economics, sociology, and related disciplines to share and use comparable data on cities around the globe.	Cities Lab Department of Social Sciences University of Toronto 1265 Military Trail Toronto, ON, Canada M1C 1A4	This Cities Lab server is a unix-based Sun Microsystems Sunblade 100. The server hosts over 90 gigabytes of Census, raster image, and other data at the small-area level for metropolitan areas across Canada, America, Mexico, and other nations. Access to these data is with the permission of the sponsoring scholar.
Funding for Cities Lab includes a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The ongoing support of the Centre for Urban and Community Studies and the Department of Social Sciences is also gratefully acknowledged.			Cities Lab is directed by John R. Miron, Professor of Geography and City Studies, Department of Social Sciences, University of Toronto at Scarborough. Scholars interested in collaborating in Cities Lab should contact John R. Miron.
	Links to associates
	Brusegard, David
	Kunz, Ignacio
	Maaranen, Richard
	Miron, Carol
	Miron, John
	Miron, Peter
	Mok, Diana
	Penfold, Robert
	Sanschagrin, Johanne
Funding for Cities Lab has been based in part on a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The ongoing support of the Department of Social Sciences is also gratefully acknowledged.
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