The following databases are related to urban planning, and will most likely provide needed information for your assignments.
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, covering topics such as city planning, historic preservation, and interior design, with coverage dating back to the 1930s.
BuildingGreen is a key resource for sustainable design and construction, offering reliable content on green building materials and high-performance case studies. It features articles on various topics, including land use, energy, and indoor environmental quality, along with information on LEED Credits. To access the full site, including quizzes and continuing education credits, users must create a personal profile using their school’s email address, such as ucdenver.edu or msudenver.edu.
GreenFILE covers the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
Urban Planning is an interdisciplinary field closely related to engineering.
The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing:
EconLit with Full Text provides indexing and abstracts of journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and book reviews in all fields of economics and full text for key economic journals.
Key database for all education related topics. Contains over one million records for journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books. Contains abstracts and full text for many records.
Use the library's history databases to provide background in architecture and historic preservation.
An index of journal articles, magazines, book reviews, and dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history and culture from prehistory to the present.
Provides citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, association papers and reviews in sociology, social science, and policy science.
Full-text database of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minoritized press. It includes historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989 and more than 2.5 million articles from over 340 publications.
Index to professional literature in nursing and allied health fields including veterinary technology, dentistry, nutrition, occupational health, biomedicine, medical imaging and therapies. Limited to 20 simultaneous users shared with CSU and UNC.
Comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
TRID is an integrated article index that combines the records from Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to 1.4 million records of transportation research worldwide.
Create and save demographic maps and reports down to the U.S. neighborhood and street level using U.S. census data, the American Community Survey, and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study. Visually analyze and understand demography and social change throughout U.S. history. Tip: Start with the maps and tables.
Search JSTOR or Google Scholar *after* you have searched through databases in your subject areas. These two resources are useful for checking on whether there are resources that you may have missed. They're useful, but they throw back a lot of information in a disorganized manner.
Provides access to thousands of full-text journal articles and ebooks related to science, technology, engineering, medicine, social sciences, and humanities.
Access the full-text of thousands of scholarly journals and books covering the humanities, social sciences, and business. Many journals extend to the first volume. Auraria Library has access to the JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection.
Full text and citations to scholarly literature from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other websites. Full text access via Auraria Library subscriptions have the link "Full-Text@Auraria Library".
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