Basic Research Resources for City & Regional Planning is a selective bibliographic guide to basic city and regional planning reference sources in the Environmental Design Library and selected campus libraries at UC Berkeley. Although the guide reflects the American emphasis of the collection, international planning sources are listed as well. For additional assistance please consult the Environmental Design Library reference staff, 210 Wurster Hall.

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 off-campus access services.

Compiled by Deborah Sommer. Content reviewed: June 2010

• American communities http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/planning_americancommunities.html
• Biography http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/planning_biography.html
• Finding local information http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/research_local.html
• General plans http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/planning_generalplans.html
• History of city planning http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/planning_history.html
• Housing http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/research_housing.html
• International planning http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/planning_international.html
• Professional practice http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/planning_practice.html
• Social & cultural factors in environmental design http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/research_socialfactors.html
• Sprawl & the New Urbanism http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/planning_sprawl.html
• Statistics & data: U.S. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/planning_statistics_usa.html | International http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/planning_statistics_international.html
  
• Transportation planning http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/planning_transportation.html
• Urban design
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/urbandesign.html
 

• The Citizen's guide to planning, by Christopher J. Duerksen, C. Gregory Dale, and Donald L. Elliott. 4th ed. Chicago: American Planning Association, 2009. Good straightforward introduction to city planning.
  EnvDesign HT123 S58 2009
• Doing urban research, by Gregory D. Andranovich, Gerry Riposa. Sage Publications, 1993. Focuses on some of the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to conduct research about cities. Includes research design and data collection.
  EnvDesign HT110 A56 1993
• Information sources in urban and regional planning: a directory and guide to reference materials, by Edward E. Duensing. Center for Urban Policy Research, 1994. An annotated guide to the planning literature. Lists planning organizations, organized by discipline. Covers titles published since 1979.
  EnvDesign HT165.5 D87 1994 Reference Desk
• Preparing for thesis & dissertation research (UC Berkeley, Library). A strategic guide for city planning, urban design, and landscape architecture graduate students beginning their professional report, thesis, or dissertation work at UC Berkeley. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/thesisgd.html
• Social science reference sources: a practical guide, by Tze-chung Li. 3rd ed. Greenwood Pr., 2000. Approximately one third of the volume covers social sciences in general. The rest of the volume is devoted to the social science subdisciplines, including geography, economics, and sociology. Contains approximately 1,600 entries.
  EnvDesign H61 A12 L5 2000 Reference; Moffitt Ref.

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• Architecture series: bibliography. Vance Bibliographies, 1978-1990. This prolific series contains material on architecture, landscape architecture, the environment and city planning. Varying quality. Cumulative author, subject, title, and numerical indexes.
  EnvDesign NA200 A12A7 Index
• The Built environment: a subject index 1800-1960, by Terence Russell. Distributed in the USA: Gower, 1989. 4 v. Vol. 1: Town planning and urbanism, architecture, gardens and landscape design. A bibliographic survey of the built environment, primarily an index of printed books, encyclopedias, catalogues, conference proceedings, etc.
  EnvDesign HT166 A12 R8 1989 Reference
• City planning bibliography: a basic bibliography of sources and trends, by George C. Bestor and Holway R. Jones. 3rd ed. American Society of Civil Engineers, 1972. Comprehensive annotated bibliography of books on theory and practice. Useful for material before 1972.
  EnvDesign HT166 A12B4 1972 Reference; copies circulate
• Council of Planning Librarians exchange bibliographies. Council of Planning Librarians. 1958-1978. A series of 1,565 bibliographies in the fields of planning, landscape architecture, urban design, public administration and social sciences. A printed Comprehensive Index is available (HT166 A12 C62 nos. 1-3 Index) and (NA9005 C65a Reference Desk). Author/title/subject/numerical order approaches are offered in the cumulative indexes.
  EnvDesign Microfiche 7179
• CPL bibliographies. Council of Planning Librarians, 1979-1996. Mostly scholarly bibliographies, many annotated. Cumulative indexes published irregularly (numbers 1-207 appears in no. 207, numbers 1-253 in no. 253, numbers 254-327 in no. 328); each bibliography also cataloged separately in the library catalogs.
  EnvDesign HT166 A12C6a Index
• History of urban and regional planning: an annotated bibliography, by Anthony Sutcliffe. Mansell Publishing, 1981. More than 1,400 annotated entries on planning history and 19th-century antecedents, individual planners, aspects of urban and regional planning, planning in individual cities and towns, and planning as a world movement. British emphasis.
  EnvDesign HT166 S913 1981 Noncirculating
• Public administration series: bibliography. Vance Bibliographies, 1978-1991. More than 3,000 bibliographies in broad field of social science and public administration. Useful as "door-openers" to topical subjects. Quality varies. Generally not annotated. Cumulated indexes with author, subject, and title.
  EnvDesign HT166 A12P8 Index
• The Social sciences: a cross-disciplinary guide to selected sources, Nancy L. Herron, gen. ed. 2nd ed. Libraries Unlimited, 1996.
  EnvDesign H61 A12 S648 1996 Reference
• Urban America examined: a bibliography, by Dale E. Casper. Garland Publishing Inc., 1985.
  A selective introduction to the literature of urban studies in America. Chapter prefaces succinctly place some 2,000 citations in context. Annotations and listing of important sources are very useful. Both subject and local research are covered, and are indexed geographically and topically.
  EnvDesign HT123 A12C3751 1985 Reference; Main HT123 A12C3751 1985
• Urban planning, a guide to information sources, by Ernest R. Alexander, Anthony Catanese, and David S. Sawicki. Gale Research Company, 1979. Restricted to comprehensive planning, integrating and coordinating urban activities. Classic titles, emphasizing books.
  EnvDesign HT166 A12A43 Reference; copies circulate

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• Book review sources for environmental design (UC Berkeley, Library) A bibliographic guide to sources of book reviews for the built environment, including city planning, urban design, and environmental planning. Instructions for using the sources are provided. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/research_bookreviews.html

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• The City, a dictionary of quotable thought on cities and urban life, by James A. Clapp. Rutgers Univ., Center for Urban Policy Research, 1984. Drawn from the written and spoken words of over 1,000 writers, speakers, poets, politicians, architects, historians, etc. Epigrams, epithets, verses, proverbs, scriptural references, etc.
  EnvDesign HT111 C576 1984 Reference
• Dictionary of community economic development terms: a resource book for practitioners and funders. California Community Economic Development Association, comp. Oakland, CA: The Assoc., 1995.
  EnvDesign HN90 C6 D53 1995 Reference Desk
• Dictionary of statistics & methodology: a nontechnical guide for the social sciences, by W. Paul Vogt. 2nd ed. Sage Publications, 1999.
  EnvDesign HA17 V64 1999
• The Dictionary of urbanism, by Robert Cowan. Tisbury, Wiltshire: Streetwise Press, 2005.
  EnvDesign HT108.5 C69 2005 Reference Desk
• A Glossary of urban form, Peter J. Larkham and Andrew N. Jones, eds. Birmingham, England: Urban Morphology Research Group, School of Geography, Univ. of Birmingham, 1991.
  EnvDesign HT371 G58 1991 Reference
• International GIS dictionary, by Rachael McDonnell & Karen Kemp. John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
  EnvDesign G70.212 M33 1995 Reference Desk
• Housing: a multidisciplinary dictionary, by Kamal S. Sayegh. Ottawa: ABCD Academy Book, 1987. Contains more than 28,000 terms with short, explanatory definitions.
  EnvDesign HD7287.5 S28 1987 Reference
• Language of cities: a glossary of terms dealing with housing, city planning and associated disciplines, by Charles Abrams. Viking Pr., 1971.
  Identifies some of the most relevant urban terms for the expert and layperson.
  EnvDesign HT108.5 A24 Reference; copies circulate
• The Latest illustrated book of development definitions, by Harvey S. Moskowitz and Carl G. Lindbloom. New expanded ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 2004.
  Offers approximately 1,955 definitions, 787 commentaries, and 102 illustrations, with a special focus on terms useful in zoning and development ordinances.
  EnvDesign HT167 M683 2004 Reference Desk
• A Planners dictionary, by Michael Davidson and Fay Dolnick, eds. Chicago: American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service, 2004. (PAS Report, no. 521/522). Book with CD-ROM.
  Contains definitions of more than 4,000 terms used in "the preparation of ordinances and... other documents that control and shape the built environment."
  EnvDesign HN90 C6 P45 2004 CD-ROM on Reserve; book at Reference Desk
• URISA working glossary. Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, [1996?]
  EnvDesign Z699.5 C55 U73 1996 Reference

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• Dictionary - landscape and urban planning: multilingual dictionary on environmental planning, design and conservation, Evert Klaus-Jurgen, ed. NY: Springer, 2001.
  English, German, French, Spanish.
  EnvDesign HD108.3 L49 2001 Reference
• International planning glossaries. Gordon Logie, ed. NY: Elsevier. In English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Swedish, Finnish. Comprises four volumes, each devoted to particular sectors of planning.
  Glossary of land resources. EnvDesign HD107.7 L63 1984 Reference
  Glossary of planning and development. EnvDesign HT391 L641 1986 Reference
  Glossary of population and housing. EnvDesign HD7287.5 L63 Reference, HC15 I571 1975 v.1:3, 2:3 Reference
  Transport. HC15 I571 1975 v. 3:1-3:3, 3:5 Reference; Bus & Econ HE141 L63 Reference
• Multilingual glossary of human settlements terms. Nairobi: United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), 1992. Glossary of English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish human settlements terms. Includes English definitions.
  EnvDesign HT65 M85 1992 Reference
• Town planning glossary: 10,000 multilingual terms in one alphabet for European town planners = Stadtplanungsglossar = glossaire d'urbanisme =glosario de urbanismo = glossario di urbanistica, by Marco Venturi. NY: Saur, 1990.
  EnvDesign HT166 V46 1990 Reference

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• Asian Planning Schools Association (Univ. of Hong Kong) Includes a directory of Asian planning schools. http://www.hku.hk/cupem/apsa/
• Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
  -----. Guide to graduate education in urban and regional planning. 1984--; biennial.
  Lists U.S. and Canadian schools, some of which include PhD programs along with the Master's program. Roster of faculty teaching at least 50% time. Information tables include "school data," "admissions & curriculum," and faculty.
  EnvDesign HT167 G84 latest Reference Desk
• -----. Guide to undergraduate education in urban and regional planning. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, 1982--; irregular. Lists U.S. and Canadian schools offering an undergraduate degree in planning, as well as schools offering non-degree curricula.
  EnvDesign HT167 G8425 latest Reference Desk
• -----. Links to planning schools (Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Tallahassee, FL)
  Includes accredited and uncredited schools in the U.S. and Canada, etc. http://www.acsp.org/education_guide/schools
• Association of European Schools of Planning. Directory of planning schools.
  Online ed.: http://www.aesop-planning.com/ Select links; print ed.: EnvDesign L900 A87 latest Reference Desk
• Planetizen 2009 guide to graduate urban planning programs in the United States and Canada. Los Angeles: Urban Insight, Inc., 2009.
  EnvDesign HT165.5 P58 2009 Reference Desk
• Schools of planning in California (UC Berkeley, Library) Lists planning schools and academic departments on the Internet. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/planning_california_links.html#schools

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• American Institute of Certified Planners. Roster. 1980--; biennial. Title and business address usually provided. Includes a directory of other national planning associations.
  EnvDesign NA11 A8 latest Reference Desk
• American Planning Association. Membership directory. 1990--; irregular.
  Online ed.: http://www.planning.org/; print ed.: EnvDesign HT101 A37 latest Reference Desk
• -----California Chapter. Membership directory. California Chapter, A.P.A. 1989--; irregular.
  Online ed.: http://www.calapa.org/; print ed.: EnvDesign HT167.5 C2 A44 latest Reference Desk
• American Society of Consulting Planners. Directory of firms. The Society, 1977--; annual.
  Includes purpose, code of professional conduct, geographic and expertise indices.
  EnvDesign HT167 A1A54 M4 latest Reference Desk
• International Society of City and Regional Planners. List of members = Liste des membres = Mitgliederliste. 1992--; annual. Includes professional code of conduct.
  EnvDesign HT166 I583 Reference
• Urban and Regional Information Systems Association. URISA membership directory. 1980--; annual. Consult the Environmental Design Library reference staff for the online username and password.
  Online ed.: http://www.urisa.org/; print ed.: EnvDesign Z699 A1U7 D5 latest Reference

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• Associations unlimited - UCB Only Gale Research Company. Contains more than 154,000 listings on national and international associations and professional societies. Also includes IRS information on over 300,000 U.S. nonprofit organizations. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/find/types/electronic_resources_locate.html
• Directory of planning and urban affairs libraries in the United States and Canada, 1990, Patricia Coatsworth, ed. 5th ed. Council of Planning Librarians, 1990.
  EnvDesign Z675 C55 C6 1990 Reference
• International planning organizations. Richard B. Stephens, ed. Inland Empire Section, California Chapter, American Planning Association. Lists national and multinational planning organizations.
  EnvDesign HD87.25 I57 latest Reference Desk

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• American cities: a bibliography, by Nicholas O. Kura and Tatiana Shohov. 2 volumes. Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2001. Covers 13 major American cities. Eclectic focus.
  EnvDesign HT123 A12 K87 2001 Reference
• Dictionary of development: Third World economy, environment, society, Brian W.W. Welsh and Pavel Butorin, ed. 2 vols. Garland Pub., 1990. Definitions and descriptions of the major facts, concepts, events, and issues concerning the Third World development process. Sources are cited.
  EnvDesign HC59.7 D513 1990 Reference
• Encyclopedia of community: from the village to the virtual world, Karen Christensen & David Levinson, general eds. 4 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003. Topics range from activist communities to Zoar.
Well-organized and visually pleasing, the encyclopedia contains 500 articles of varying lengths; each article includes a brief bibliography for further reading. An unusual and useful feature is the 266 primary-text sidebars which elaborate on the main articles.
EnvDesign HM756 E53 2003 Reference
• Encyclopedia of community planning and environmental management, by Marilyn Spiegel Schultz. Facts on File, 1984. Concise, clearly written definitions of over 2,000 concepts and terms. Also includes historical material, landmark court cases, major legislation, and brief biographies of noted planners. Illustrated with photos, diagrams, illustrations.
  EnvDesign HD108.6 S381 1984 Reference Desk
• Encyclopedia of rural America: the land and people. Gary A. Goreham, ed. ABC-CLIO, 1997. 2 vols. Selected bibliography: pp.789-807. Readable articles on a wide range of topics. Articles of particular interest for city planning include, "Community," "Infrastructure," "Settlement Patterns," and "Urbanization." Most articles include bibliographic citations and many are illustrated with black and white photographs or tables.
  EnvDesign E169.12 E5 1997 Reference
• Encyclopedia of urban studies, Ray Hutchison, ed. 2 vols. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2010.
  EnvDesign HT108.5 E634 2010 Reference Desk
• Encyclopedia of the city, Roger W. Caves, ed. NY: Routledge, 2005. Provides concise signed articles on a wide range of planning topics and concepts. Most articles include brief bibliographies.
  EnvDesign HT108.5 E63 2005 Reference Desk
• Encyclopedia of urban America: the cities and suburbs. Neil Larry Shumsky, ed. 2 vols. ABC-CLIO, 1998. Readable articles on a wide range of topics of relevance to city planning. Most articles include bibliographic citations and many are illustrated with black and white photographs or tables.
  EnvDesign HT123 E5 1998 Reference
• World encyclopedia of cities, by George Thomas Kurian. ABC-CLIO, 1994. Coverage: Vol.l: United States, A-M, Vol.2: United States, N-Z, & Canada.
  EnvDesign HT108.5 K87 1994 Reference

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• City planning indexes & abstracts (UC Berkeley, Library) - A selective list of indexes and abstracts to help readers identify articles and other publications on city and regional planning topics. For indexes with an international focus, see International planning. See also Environmental planning indexes & abstracts. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/planning_articles.html
• Periodical literature on United States cities. A Bibliography and subject guide, by Barbara Smith Shearer. Greenwood Pr., 1983. Citations to 4,900+ selected periodical articles published from 1970-81 on 170 U.S. cities with a population of 100,000 or more.
  EnvDesign HT123 S53 1983 Reference

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• Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University. 2nd ed., enlarged. G.K. Hall, 1968. 1st Suppl. (1968-6/72); 2nd Suppl. (7/72-5/74); 3rd Suppl. (6/74-4/77, Microfilm 21123); 4th Suppl. (5/77-4/79); 5th Suppl. (5/79-12/81).
  EnvDesign fNA8 C63 1968 Reference
• Dictionary catalog of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Library and Information Division. G.K. Hall,1972. 1st Suppl., 1974; 2nd Suppl., 1975. Coverage: 1934-197?. A catalog of one of the richest and most diverse collections of literature on urban affairs and community development. Includes books, pamphlets, slides, and films, as well as local, state, federal and foreign documents. Provides unique access to over 20,000 Comprehensive Planning Reports (Section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954) in vol. 19 of the base set, and vol. 2 in Suppl. 1 and 2.
  EnvDesign fHT166 A12 v.17, 19, & Suppl.2:2 Reference Other volumes in NRLF
• Harvard University Graduate School of Design Library Catalog. G.K. Hall, 1968; Suppl. 1970, 1974, 1979. Coverage: 189?-1978. The library catalog of the oldest program in city planning in the U.S. Particularly complete in areas such as urban design, city and regional planning, state and national planning, housing, zoning and urban renewal. Covers books, periodical articles, and pamphlets.
  EnvDesign fNA8 H3 Reference

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• Housing and urban affairs, 1965-1976. Microfilming Corp. of America, 1977. Microfiche full text of 3,000 selected local planning reports, research papers, etc., in the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Affairs Library, 1965-76 (Environ Dsgn Microfiche 855).
  INDEX: Housing and urban affairs, 1965-1976: A bibliographic guide to the microform collection provides subject, geographic and author title access to the collection (EnvDesign HD7293 A121 H68 1978 Index).
• Index to current urban documents - UCB Only NY: Greenwood Press. Online edition contains citations to and the full text (PDF format) of local government publications from approximately 500 selected cities and counties in the United States and Canada. At the core of the collection are fiscal and planning documents. The Index is also a good source of locally generated socioeconomic statistics, public health and social service planning, and business and physical infrastructure information.
  Online ed.: 2000--; available from The Library's home page→ Electronic Resources→ Electronic Resources: Locate by Title; print ed.: 1972--; EnvDesign JS13 A12M85 Index & Doe Reference Center; Index & full text documents on microfiche in Institute of Governmental Studies Library
• "701" Comprehensive Planning Reports. This rich collection of general plans spans the period from 1954 to 1976 when the U.S. Federal Planning Assistance Program of the Housing Act of 1954 (P.L.83-560), Section 701 of Title 7, subsidized the preparation of comprehensive plans and required their distribution to 13 U.S. urban planning depository libraries, including the Environmental Design Library. More than 20,000 reports, issued by state and local agencies, were distributed.
  INDEXES: Most of these reports are listed in the Library's catalogs. Access is also provided in Dictionary catalog of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Library and Information Division in vol. 19 of the base set, and vol. 2 in Suppl. 1 and 2 (EnvDesign fHT166 A12 Reference).

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• City planning online (UC Berkeley, Library) - Links to a variety of topical Web sites of interest to planners, including California planning online and Environmental planning online. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/planning_links.html
• Planetizen: the planning and development network - "A public-interest information exchange for the urban planning and development community. ...a daily, one-stop source for urban planning news, job opportunities, commentary and events." All this and more, including many full-text articles. http://www.planetizen.com/
• Sapling: architecture, planning & landscape information gateway - Web sites are individually reviewed and rated. UK-based. http://www.soult.com/sapling/

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• Bioscience & Natural Resources Library - 2101 Valley Life Sciences Building http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BIOS/
• Business Library - Student Services Wing, Haas School of Businesshttp://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BUSI/
• Earth Sciences & Map Library - 50 McCone Hall
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/
• Environmental Design Library - 210 Wurster Hall
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/
• Institute of Governmental Studies Library - 109 Moses Hall
  http://www.igs.berkeley.edu/library/
• Institute of Transportation Studies Library - 412 McLaughlin Hall
  http://library.its.berkeley.edu/
• Law Library - 240 Boalt Hall http://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/

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