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California Land Use Planning provides strategies for locating materials on California land use planning at the University of California, Berkeley, libraries, as well as links to selected web sites.  The guide emphasizes land use planning in the San Francisco Bay area.  For additional assistance, please consult the Environmental Design Library reference staff.

UC Berkeley faculty, registered students, and staff who are off campus may use items marked UCB Only or UC Only by using The Library's proxy service or by installing the Connecting@Berkeley CD on their computer.

Last updated: 10 November 2005 Conditions of Use

    Finding Books:
    Here are a few subject headings which may be useful in locating books on land use planning and regulation, particularly with a California focus. Use the Melvyl catalog.
    Agricultural conservation -- [place name]
    Brownfields -- [place name]
    Brownfields -- Laws and legislation
    Cities and towns -- [place name] -- Growth
    City planning and redevelopment law
    [place name] -- Economic conditions
    Economic surveys -- [place name]
    Hazardous waste site remediation -- Government policy
    Historic preservation -- [place name]
    Land use --  [place name]
    Land use -- Law and legislation
    Land use, Rural
    Land use, Urban    		 Open spaces -- [place name] Parks -- [place name]
    Reclamation of land
    Regional planning -- San Francisco Bay Area
    SPRAWL:
    Cities and towns -- Growth AND City planning
    Cities and towns -- Growth AND Land use
    Land use, Urban AND Urban policy
    Sustainable development -- California
    Urban agriculture -- California
    Urban community development -- [place name]
    Urban renewal -- Environmental aspects
    Zoning

    Journal Article Indexes:
    Use journal article indexes to discover journal articles on your topic. The following guides will help you choose the best indexes for your search.

  1. City planning indexes & abstracts (UC Berkeley, Library)  Comprehensive guide to the principal journal article indexes for city planning; includes web links to many indexes.
    2. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/planindx.html
  2. Environmental  planning indexes & abstracts (UC Berkeley, Library)  Comprehensive guide to the principal journal article indexes for environmental planning; includes web links to many indexes.
    3. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/envindex.html


    Journals:
    Included here is a range of land use planning titles available at the UC Berkeley libraries, from journals on land use that occasionally include California to newsletters of San Francisco Bay area organizations concerned with local land use issues.

  3. Bay Area monitor.  League of Women Voters of the Bay Area.
    4. Online ed.: full text articles May/June 1998--; http://www.bayareamonitor.org/; site includes tables-of-contents from 1996--.
    Paper ed.:  Current two years only; EnvDesign HE310 S4 B3  Unbound periodical stacks
  4. California base closure news.  Sacramento: Governor's Office of Planning and Research.
    5. Online ed.: current issue; http://www.cedar.ca.gov/military/index.html
    Paper ed.:  Oct. 1994--; EnvDesign HC79 D4A2 C45  Shelved in unbound & bound periodical stacks
  5. California coast & ocean.  Oakland, CA: State Coastal Conservancy.
    6. Online ed.:  1996--, selected full text articles; http://www.coastalconservancy.ca.gov/Publications/pubs.htm
    Paper ed.:  1990--; EnvDesign TC345 C2 C3  Shelved in unbound & bound periodical stacks
  6. California planning & development report. [Beverly Hills: Torf Fulton Associates.  1987--.  A great source for up-to-date information on land use planning in California. Indexed via CP&DR Archives. Note that the journal is not indexed by any major city planning indexes.
    7. EnvDesign HT169 C2 C34  Shelved in unbound & bound periodical stacks
  7. California today.  Planning and Conservation League for Legislative Action.
    8. Online ed.: Selected issues are available; http://www.pcl.org/pcl/pcl_newsletter.asp
    Paper ed.:  April 1966--; EnvDesign F856 C36  Shelved in unbound & bound periodical stacks
  8. Environmental and planning law journal - UC Only
    9. Online ed.: 1998--; full text available via Expanded academic ASAP; use Advanced search.
    Paper ed.: 1984-1989; Law Lib KH26 A12E59
  9. Greenbelt action. San Francisco, CA: Greenbelt Alliance/People for Open Space.
    10. Online ed.:  Summer 2000---; http://greenbelt.org/resources/greenbeltaction.html
    Paper ed.:  1986--; EnvDesign SB483 S3 R4  Shelved in unbound & bound periodical stacks
  10. Growth/no growth.  Flagstaff, AZ: Mandolin Pub.  Library has:  3:3(Mar 2000)--.
    11. EnvDesign HT384 U5 G76  Shelved in unbound & bound periodical stacks
  11. Journal of land, resources & environmental law - UCB Only. Salt Lake City, Utah: Univ. of Utah College of Law. 1997--.
    12. Online ed.: v.17:2 (1997)--; Full text available via Lexis-Nexis academic
    Paper ed.: Law KB1 J8652
  12. Journal of land use & environmental law, Florida State Univ.
    Online ed.: v.10 (fall 1994)--; http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/landuse/; full text.
    Paper ed.: Law KB1 J864 Unbound issues at loan desk
  13. Land economics - UC Only
    14. Online ed.: 1984--;  full text available via Expanded academic ASAP; use Advanced search.
    Paper ed.:  EnvDesign HD101 J6  (1948-Feb. 1995); Bus & Econ HD101 J6  (1948--)
  14. Land lines: newsletter of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
    15. Online ed.: Sept. 1995--; http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/landlines.asp
    Paper ed.: Current year only; EnvDesign  HD101 L363  Unbound periodicals
  15. Land use law & zoning digest. [Chicago, American Planning Association, etc.] 1974--.
    16. EnvDesign NA9050 A1 Z6 26  Shelved in unbound & bound periodical stacks; some volumes in storage
  16. Land use law report. Silver Spring, MD: Business Publishers, Inc., 1991-
    17. EnvDesign HD171 A1 L3  Shelved in unbound & bound periodical stacks
  17. Land use policy - UC Only  Guildford, Surrey: Butterworths.
    18. Online ed.: 1995--; full text available via ScienceDirect
    Paper ed.: 1984--; EnvDesign HD101 L26  Shelved in unbound & bound periodical stacks
  18. Public land & resources law review - UCB Only   Missoula, MT: Univ. of Montana School of Law, 1996-
    19. Online ed.: 2000--; full text available via Lexis-Nexis academic
    Paper ed.: Law KF5601 A3P83
  19. SPUR newsletter calendar. San Francisco: San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association. Includes articles on land use and planning issues in San Francisco. Not indexed.
    EnvDesign HT177 S3S36 S13 In bound & unbound periodical stacks
  20. Urban land. [Washington, etc., Urban Land Institute], 1944--.
    21. EnvDesign NA9000 U7 Recent unbound issues on reserve; bound volumes in periodical stacks


    Statistics & Data:

  1. Bay Area poll. Bay Area Council. Annual survey on the nine-county Bay Area including trend and demographic questions.
    2. Online ed.:  1998--; http://www.bayareacouncil.org/pubs/bap/bap_mid.html
    Print ed.:  Environ Dsgn HM261 B39  Shelved in unbound & bound periodical stacks, 1991--;
    IGS  A6053  1980--
  2. California planning online  (UC Berkeley, Library) Many links to full text statistical resources for California planning.
    3. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu
  3. Index to current urban documents - UCB Only NY: Greenwood Press.  The key national resource for local government publications of the U.S.  Online edition contains citations and full text (PDF format). Subject terms to use: Land use--statistics, Land use--inventories, surveys.
    4. Online ed.:  2000--; available from The Library's home page; go to Find Information and select Electronic Resources/ Electronic Resources Types A-Z/ Government Information Sources - California/Regional.
    Paper ed.:  1972--; ENVI JS13 A12M85 Index; Index & full text documents on microfiche in the
    Institute of Governmental Studies Library
  4. Statistics & data for city planning: United States (UC Berkeley, Library) A bibliographic research guide to UC Berkeley library and Internet sources for socioeconomic and demographic data and statistics, with a California emphasis.
    5. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/plandata.html


    Finding Regulatory Information: See also Handbooks & professional practice (UC Berkeley, Library) for a list of land use planning & regulation handbooks.
    California regulatory environment:

  1. 150 years of land use: California sesquicentennial, 1850-2000: a brief history of land use regulation, by James Longtin. Berkeley, CA: Local Government Publications [dist.], 1999.
    EnvDesign KFC811 L665 1999 Reference & circulating
  2. California planning online (UC Berkeley, Library) Many links to full text web sites of regulatory information.
    3. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu
  3. CERES Environmental law, regulation, and policy (Calif. Resources Agency) Includes full-text California environmental & water law and policy and land use law.
    4. http://ceres.ca.gov/env_law/govatty.html
  4. Land use planning information network (Calif. Resources Agency) Great starting place.  Links to full-text California land use regulation publications.
    5. http://ceres.ca.gov/planning/
  5. Longtin's California land use. Berkeley: Local Government Publications. Land use and zoning law for California.
    EnvDesign KFC811 L66 Reference

    Environmental regulations:
  1. Environmental planning (UC Berkeley, Library) Includes a directory of links to web sites of full text environmental laws & regulations.
    2. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/environ.html


    Finding Local Information:
  1. Finding local information (UC Berkeley, Library) A bibliographic research guide to finding U.S. community-specific information in the UC Berkeley libraries, the community, and on the web, with an emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area and California. 
  2. City & county web sites: Local government web sites often have useful links to local planning information and local organizations concerned with land use issues. Here are a few gateway sites.

    3. abagOnline (Association of Bay Area Governments). Well-organized links to San Francisco Bay Area cities, counties, and regional organizations.
    http://www.abag.ca.gov/home.html

    California planning online (UC Berkeley, Library)  Links to many useful directories.
    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/calplan.html

    Cities & counties of California (Official City Sites) Directory of links to California city and county web sites.
    http://officialcitysites.com/california.htm

    General Plans: General plans are an excellent source of local planning information, including land use planning.

  1. Finding general plans (UC Berkeley, Library)A guide to finding general plans, with a California emphasis.
    2. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/genplans.html

    Local Libraries: Local libraries are often excellent sources of community-level information.
  1. Library web sites in California Via LibDex, links to many Bay Area libraries.
    2. http://www.libdex.com/country/USA-California.html
  2. Libraries on the web: U.S.A. public libraries (UC Berkeley, Library SunSITE) Directory of links to U.S. public libraries.
    3. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/Public_main.html

    Newspapers: Sometimes the only record of a community land use issue is in the local media. In addition to the indexes listed here, some newspapers are available full text on the web; information regarding archives of older issues is sometimes available at these sites. See The Library's home page; go to Electronic Resources and select News Databases for a list of links to online full text newspapers.
  1. California planning online (UC Berkeley, Library) Has extensive links to California newspapers.
    2. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/calplan.html
  2. California newspapers (News Link) Organized by place within broad categories (e.g., dailies, business, alternative).
    3. http://www.newslink.org/canews.html
  3. California ethnic newspapers (New California Media Online) Includes the full text of approximately 100 California ethnic newspapers, many with English translations.
    4. http://www.ncmonline.com/

    Newspaper indexes/databases:

  1. America's newspapers via NewsBank - UCB Only Full text database of articles from about 310 U.S. regional and national newspapers, including about 70 California newspapers.
    2. http://infoweb.newsbank.com
  2. Lexis-Nexis academic - UCB Only Includes indexing to journals and newspapers and provides full text.
    3. Online access: Available from The Library's home page; go to Find Information and select Articles.


    Organizations & Networks:
    See also Environmental Planning, which includes a list of links to organizations involved with sustainable development.

  1. American Farmland Trust
    2. http://www.farmland.org/
  2. Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities Formed by business, environmental, and government agencies to support regional cooperation in land use, growth management, transportation, etc.
    3. http://www.bayareaalliance.org/index.html
  3. Bay Area Transportation & Land Use Coalition Comprises more than 80 organizations.
    4. http://www.transcoalition.org/
  4. California Center for Land Recycling Encourages and facilitates land recycling to revitalize urban areas, discourages urban sprawl, and conserves greenspace. Focuses on brownfield sites.
    5. http://www.cclr.org/
  5. Greenbelt Alliance  A San Francisco Bay Area citizen land conservation and urban planning organization.
    6. http://www.greenbelt.org/
  6. Land Use Planning Information Network (LUPIN) (Calif. Resources Agency) A project of the California Environmental Resources

    7. Evaluation System (CERES). Provides a searchable full text database of California environmental assessment documents, general plans, maps, photos, regulatory documents, etc.
    http://www.ceres.ca.gov/planning/
  7. Urban Ecology  Assists San Francisco Bay Area constituencies engaged in changing their land use and building patterns. The site includes a useful list of links to organizations.
    8. http://www.urbanecology.org/


    Selected Sources:
  1. Farmland conversion: perceptions and realities (pdf file), by Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Alvin D. Sokolow and Daniel A. Sumner. Davis, CA: Univ. of California, Agricultural Issues Center, [2001]. (AIC issues brief, no. 16) Two appendices (online only) include calculations for total agricultural land and farmland conversion.
    Online edition: http://aic.ucdavis.edu/pub/briefs/brief16.pdf
    Print edition: IGSL A9792 no.16; WRCA G4092 XA3 no.16
  2. Land recycling and the creation of sustainable communities: a strategy for ensuring prosperity and quality of life for Californians in the 21st century, by George B. Brewster. San Francisco: California Center for Land Recycling, 1998. (Policy paper, 1.)
    Online ed.: http://www.cclr.org/pdfs/PolicyPaper.pdf
    Paper ed.: EnvDesign HD211 C2 B68 1998; IGS 98 00344
  3. A Land use policy framework for the San Francisco Bay Area, adopted by the Executive Board of the Association of Bay Area Governments, July 1990.
    http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/rgp/menu/landuse.html
  4. Planning at the edge of the millenium (pdf file), California Planning Roundtable, 2000.
    Online ed.: http://www.cproundtable.org/cprwww/docs/paem.pdf
    Print ed.: IGSL 2001 0542
  5. Shaping the Sierra: nature, culture, and conflict in the changing west, by Timothy P. Duane. Berkeley: Univ. of California Pr., 1999.
    EnvDesign GE185 S54 D83 1999 Reference & circulating
  6. Special survey on land use (pdf file) (Public Policy Institute of California)  A "series of surveys...that focuses on population growth, land use, and the environment" in California.
    Online access: http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=170
    Paper ed.: Paper copies of some surveys available at the Institute of Governmental Studies.
  7. Sprawl & the new urbanism (UC Berkeley, Library) A selective bibliographic research guide to Internet sites and library resources on sprawl and the new urbanism at UC Berkeley.
    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/sprawl.html
  8. Transforming California: a political history of land use and development, by Stephanie S. Pincetl. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr., 1999.
    9. EnvDesign HD211 C2 P56 1999


    Campus Libraries:
    UC Berkeley libraries supporting land use research include:
    Doe Reference Center
    2nd Floor, Doe Library 
    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/reference.html
    Earth Sciences & Map Library
    50 McCone Hall 
    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/MapCollections.html 
    Environmental Design Library
    210 Wurster Hall 
    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/ 
    Institute of Governmental Studies Library
    109 Moses Hall 
    		Nonirculating collection. 
    http://www.igs.berkeley.edu/library/ 
    Institute of Transportation Studies Library
    412 McLaughlin Hall 
    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ITSL/ 
    Law Library
    2nd Floor, Boalt Hall
    http://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/
    Water Resources Center Archives
    410 O'Brien Hall 
    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/WRCA/

    Compiled by Deborah Sommer
    Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Librarian
    Environmental Design Library

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