Urban Studies Subject Guide

Databases

• Academic Search Elite
  Multi-disciplinary database offers full-text, dating from 1985 to present, for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals, including more than 1,250 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study- EBSCOhost
• Business Source Premier
  Provides full text for nearly 3,050 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1000 peer-reviewed business publications- EBSCOhost
• Sociological Abstracts
  Provides abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Contains abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews and abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers- CSA
• Social Services Abstracts
  Provides abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Contains abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews and abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers- CSA
• Additional Databases

Books

• Handbook of Urban Studies
  by Ronan Paddison 
  HT151 .H318
  Provides the account of the urban condition, relevant to a wide readership from academics to researchers and policy-makers. Presents a theoretically and empirically informed account embracing all the different disciplines contributing to urban studies- Publisher   Look inside!
• Urban Life and Society
  by Harry Gold 
  HT111 .G575
  Overview of the entire field of urban sociology. Provides introduction to all of the major approaches and perspectives. Presents the traditional “classic” works in the field and focuses on some of the most recent theoretical and empirical work available- Publisher
• Urban Social Work: An Introduction to Policy and Practice in the Cities
  by Norma Kolko Phillips, Shulamith Lala Straussner 
  HV40 .P48
  Features cases to illustrate the impact of social welfare policies on the day-to-day lives of people living in the cities and to stress the relationship between policy and practice. Present how policy defines practice and how social workers can have an impact on policy. Covers social work practice from an urban social problems perspective- Publisher
• Additional Books

Journals

• American City and County
  Articles, commentary, personal profiles, legislation, public safety, financial management and news of note for professionals in or dealing with municipal, county, state and federal government- EBSCOhost
• Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs
  Provides accessible research on urban areas and issues, including studies on urban sprawl, crime, taxes, education, poverty, and related subjects- Project Muse
• Journal of Urban Affairs
  Articles and book reviews about contemporary urban issues for social scientists. Information about public policies, programs, social change and administration- EBSCOhost
• Journal of Urban Design
• Provides articles on research and practice in urban design which offer contributions in several areas of interdisciplinary and international interest- EBSCOhost
• Journal of Urban Planning and Development
  Reports on fundamental, experimental, and theoretical developments in the science and engineering of wide bandwidth materials- EBSCOhost
• Urban Studies
  Original articles, notes, comments and reviews on economics, planning, political science, statistics, geography, sociology, population studies and public administration contributing to the fields of urban and regional planning- EBSCOhost
• Additional Journals

Websites

• Population Index
  Provides access to the cutting edge in social work and social services-related databases and information resources available on the Internet.
• Urban Institute
  Measures effects, compares options, shows which stakeholders get the most and least, tests conventional wisdom, reveals trends, and makes costs, benefits, and risks explicit.
• World Housing Encyclopedia
  Covers "housing construction types in seismically prone areas of the world"- Librarian's Index to the Internet