Selected Urban Studies Resources

*360Search
Use 360 Search to search the Rhodes library catalog, selected databases and online journals simultaneously.

Databases
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  • *America: History and Life
    Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, America: History and Life coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Over 90% of the articles included are published in English-language journals.  
  • *Congressional Universe
    CIS Congressional Universe is the world′s most comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc. The service offers access to a variety of information by and about the United States Congress.
  • *EconLit with Full Text
    Produced by the American Economic Association, this is the world′s foremost source of references to economic literature. Also includes full text for more than 430 journals including titles from the American Economic Association, such as: American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives. The database contains more than 735,000 records from 1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.
  • *Facts.com
    Brings together content from seven core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years. The seven databases are Facts On File World News Digest; Issues and Controversies On File; Today′s Science On File; Editorials On File; Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia; Reuters On-Line News Service; The World Almanac and Book of Facts. FACTS.com also delivers additional special features including maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1980.
  • GPO Access Search
    GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted.
  • *GPO Monthly Catalog
    Consists of records published by the U.S. Government Printing Office since July 1976. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more
  • *Historical Abstracts
    Your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database is packed with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square -- over half a million entries in all.  
  • In the First Person 
    A free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.
  • PAIS [print Ref Z7164.E2 P34] .
  • *World News Connection
    An extremely valuable research tool for anyone who needs to monitor non-U.S. media sources, the material in WNC is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Open Source Center (OSC). Analysts from OSC domestic and overseas bureaus monitor timely and pertinent open-source materials.
  • *Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega
    Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad.

Online Journals & Newspapers

Reference Resources

Websites

  • American Factfinder (US Dept. of the Census)
  • Brookings Institution
  • Cities and Buildings Database (U of Washington)
    The Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web.
  • Cities Around the World (UWisconsin, Milwaukee)
    Cities Around the World presents over 6,100 photographic images from the slide collections of the American Geographical Society Library.
  • City and Regional Planning Research Guide (UC Berkeley)
  • CityMayors
    City Mayors is an international network of professionals working together to promote strong and prosperous cities as well as good local government. It examines how city mayors, and others governing metropolitan areas, develop innovative solutions to long-standing urban problems such as housing, transport, education and employment, but also how they meet the latest environmental, technological, social and security challenges, which affect the well-being of their citizens.
  • Cyburbia: Urban Planning Portal
  • Global Distribution of Poverty
    The Global Poverty Mapping Project seeks to enhance current understanding of the global distribution of poverty and the geographic and biophysical conditions of where the poor live.
  • Links to Think Tanks (U of Michigan Documents Center)
  • DMOZ Urban and Regional Planning Links
  • Local Document Links ( U of Michigan Documents Center)
  • Maps: Chicago; London; Google Maps; Google Earth
  • National Building Museum
    Created by an act of Congress in 1980, the National Building Museum is America′s premier cultural institution dedicated to exploring and celebrating architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning.
  • National Transportation Library
  • Neighborhoods Online (National)
    Neighborhoods Online was created in 1995 by the Institute for the Study of Civic Values and as an online resource center  for America′s neighborhood builders--people who work through grassroots organizations, as volunteers,  and in government to build strong neighborhoods and communities throughout the country.
  • New Urbanism
    NewUrbanism.org was started in 1998, and has since grown to become a leading and well respected informational website promoting walkable urbanism, transit oriented development, trains and sustainability.  
  • Oregon Sustainable Community Digital Library 
    The Oregon Sustainable Community Digital Library provides a central online repository for the collection, accession, and dissemination of key urban planning documents on the Portland Metropolitan area.
  • Planetizen: Planning and Development Network
    Planetizen is a public-interest information exchange provided by Urban Insight for the urban planning, design, and development community. It is a one-stop source for urban planning news, commentary, interviews, event coverage, book reviews, announcements, jobs, consultant listings, training, and more.
  • Smart City Radio
    Smart City™ is a weekly, hour-long public radio talk show that takes an in-depth look at urban life, the people, places, ideas and trends shaping cities. Host Carol Coletta talks with national and international public policy experts, elected officials, economists, business leaders, artists, developers, planners and others for a penetrating discussion of urban issues.
  • Smart Communities Network
    We are delighted to offer you this menu of information and services on how your community can adopt sustainable development as a strategy for well-being.
  • Smart Growth Resource Library
    The number of Smart Growth and related resources increase on a daily basis. This section of Smart Growth Online is a searchable catalogue of reports, websites, tools and case studies dating from 1997 until today. Most of the resources contained in this catalogue are available on-line.
  • UN Habitat - Shelter for All
    The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
  • Urban Development (UNESCO)
    Focuses on: Urban Policies and the Right to the City: Rights, Responsibilities and Citizenship; Urban development and social transformations; Social sustainability of historical districts; Urban governance and participation; Urban professionals capacity-building
  • Urban Environmental Management Resources (WWW Virtual Library)
  • Urban Institute
  • Urban Planning, 1794-1918: An International Anthology of Articles, Conference Papers, and Reports
    These documents are primary source material for the study of how urban planning developed up to the end of World War I. They include statements about techniques, principles, theories, and practice by those who helped to create a new professional specialization. This new field of city planning grew out of the land-based professions of architecture, engineering, surveying, and landscape architecture, as well as from the work of economists, social workers, lawyers, public health specialists, and municipal administrators.
    Today, we analyze policies, evaluate programs, and inform community development to improve social, civic, and economic well-being. We work in all 50 states and abroad in over 28 countries, and we share our research findings with policymakers, program administrators, business, academics, and the public online and through reports and scholarly books.
  • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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