Research Guides: Urban Planning & Public Policy: Subject Coverage

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Elizabeth V. Hernandez

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Subjects: Chicano/Latinx Studies, Criminology, Ethnic Studies, Law, Political Science, Spanish & Portuguese

Subject Coverage

Other Subject Guides will help inform user on many topics. Recommended examples include:

Orange County Subject Guide
California Subject Guide
US Government Subject Guide
International Government Organizations Subject Guide
Demography and Social Analysis Subject Guide
Civil & Environmental Engineering Subject Guide
Sociology Subject Guide

Other academic guides that are helpful include:

Environmental Design Library, University of California, Berkeley

MIT Research Guide on Urban Planning & Design

Specialized sites to find specialized information on:

Cities & Urban Affairs/Studies
Demography
Design
Environmental Law & Climate Change
You will need to register for this set of resources from LexisNexis - one of its specialized communities with a focus on Environmental Law and Climate Change/Global Warming.
Profiles many legal cases, blogs and information sources on national & international relevance to topic.
History of Planning
Housing - HUD User Home Page
HUD User hosts research, publications, and datasets from the US Department of Housing
and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R).
Established in 1973, PD&R is the office “responsible for maintaining current information
on housing needs, market conditions, and existing programs, as well as conducting research on priority housing and community development issues.”
International Development
includes a lot of surveys, instruments and country rankings
Planning
Policy & Surveys
Poverty
Sustainability
Transportation
Water Resources
variety of resources to support the study of water sciences

General Sites to find Specialized Information

Active Living Network
ArchiveGrid
Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid.

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Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies. Contains broad databases available to historical research.
British-American Tobacco Document Collection
Over 2,000 tobacco industry documents made available by the Library and Center for Knowledge Management at the University of California, San Francisco.
Pascal and Francis Bibliographic Database
International index and database to multilingual, multidisciplinary humanities and social sciences from 1984 until 2015.
Globest
Free current real estate news content with coverage of Orange County, Southern California and coverage of other major cities. Provides news, features, deal tracking, resources and updates from the commercial and residential markets.
IBM Samrter Planet
Museums and the Open Archive of California
Search selected collections from MOAC partner institutions. This resource currently includes 75,000 records and images from 11 California cultural institutions presented online by the California Digital Library.
Online Archive of California
The OAC brings together historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives.

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Over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections are available.
Quest for Peace Interviews, 1983-1989
The Quest for Peace Interviews are collections of half-hour interviews with a wide range of world-renowned experts such as Condoleezza Rice, Norman Cousins, John Kenneth Galbraith and Julian Bond on the pursuit of lasting world peace in a nuclear age.
Social Science Information Gateway
Free database of over 50,000 Social Science Web pages and resources. Intute closed in July 2011 so no new content is being added to the archived resources.
ToxTown
Tox Town is designed to provide information on: everyday locations where you might find toxic chemicals, non-technical descriptions of chemicals, links to selected, authoritative chemical information on the Internet, etc.
World Digital Library
Zillow.com
Large national real estate values database - created with data from local county assessor's office when available.
Atlas of Cyberspaces