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Urban Studies Research Guide
For help with your research, visit
the reference desk (hours)on the second floor of Barnard Library, or contact a Barnard reference librarian:
Phone: 212-854-3953
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E-mail: refdesk@barnard.edu
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Finding Books |
Useful Reference Works
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Major Databases |Selected Websites
Links to Related Barnard or Columbia Sites
Finding Books
Use
CLIO to find books, journals, links to
online journals, and other materials, in the
Columbia or Barnard libraries
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Barnard Library has a large circulating
collection of books and journals serving
courses offered by the Urban Studies
program.
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Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
has many books on urban planning and real
estate development; many of these circulate,
and are designated “Avery Ware.”
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Useful call numbers for Barnard: NA9000; HD;
HT
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Useful subject headings: cities and towns,
city planning, housing, land use
planning,
metropolitan areas, municipal government,
urban economics, urban sociology,
urbanization.
Useful Reference Works
available in Barnard Library Reference Area,
second floor
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Title |
Call Number |
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City A-Z |
HT153.C557 2000 |
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Encyclopedia of American Urban
History. 2 vols. |
HT123.E49 2007 |
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Encyclopedia of Housing |
HD7287.E53 1998 |
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Encyclopedia of the City |
HT108.5.E63 2005 |
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Encyclopedia of Urban America. 2
vols. |
HT123.E5 1998 |
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Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures. 4
vols. |
HT108.5 E53 2002 |
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Encyclopedia of Urban Planning.
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HT166.E5 |
Major Databases
available with Columbia ID
Art
Full Text
Citations, abstracts and images for articles
and book reviews in scholarly journals,
primarily in the US and Europe, covering
city planning and architecture, in addition
to art. Includes retrospective version, from
1929-present.
Use " " for a phrase; * for truncation.
Avery
Index to Architectural Periodicals
Citations to articles in architectural and
planning journals, from the 1930's to the
present
Use ? for truncation.
Index
to Current Urban Documents
Citations and full-text for municipal
publications from the U.S.
Uses Boolean operators.
Sociological
Abstracts
Citations
and abstracts for articles in sociology
periodicals.
Uses Boolean operators, proximity
searching; * for truncation.
ULI
Development Case Studies
Case studies of commercial and residential
development projects.
Search by project type, site size, and
location.
Urban
Studies Abstracts
Includes bibliographic records covering
essential areas related to urban studies.
Uses Boolean operators; ? for wildcard; *
for truncation.
Selected
Websites
About
Planning
Clearinghouse
for information about websites,
publications, essays and news related to all
aspects of planning.
American
Planning Association
Nonprofit public interest and research
organization committed to urban, suburban,
regional and rural planning.
Basic
Research Resources for City & Regional
Planning
Selective bibliographic guide to reference
sources in the Environmental Design Library
at UC Berkeley. International in scope, with
an American emphasis.
Cyburbia
Urban planning portal and
social/community site. Includes
a message board, image gallery, blog feeds,
and a directory of web sites.
New
Urbanism
Website promoting walkable urbanism, transit
oriented development, trains and
sustainability.
New
York City Department of City Planning
Information on the city’s physical and
socioeconomic planning.
PLANETIZEN
Public-information
exchange provided by Urban Insight for the
urban planning and development community.
Links to Related Barnard or Columbia Sites
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Avery Architecture & Fine Arts Library
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Avery Guide to Urban Planning: Resources for
Research
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Barnard College, Urban Studies program
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