Environmental Design Library
Social & Cultural Factors in Architecture & Urban Design: Resources

Getting Organized Research Methods Research Guides Research Strategy Worksheet Basic Reference Sources Finding Books

Finding Journal Articles Finding Newspaper Articles Visual Resources, Maps, & Images Archives Related Libraries & Organizations Background Readings

This is a strategic bibliographic guide for environmental design students researching social and cultural factors in architecture and urban design, in particular students in Architecture 110/210.

For additional assistance please review related research guides at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/Allgds.html or 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 installing Connecting at Berkeley http://cab.berkeley.edu/ on their computer or by using The Library's proxy service.

Compiled by Elizabeth D. Byrne Environmental Design Library Last updated: 14 October 2004

Getting Organized:

Writing:
1. Designing a Research Strategy http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/resstrat.html
2. Ethnographic writing research: writing it down, writing it up, and reading it, Wendy Bishop. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, 1999.
EnvDsgn, Anthro GN307.7.B57 1999
3. A manual for writers of term papers, theses, and dissertations, Kate Turabian. 6th ed. Chicago: Univ of Chicago, 1996.
Env Design LB2369.T8 1996 Reference
4. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Joseph Gibaldi. 5th ed. New York: Modern Language Assoc. of America, 1999.
Env Design LB2369 G53 1999 Reference
5. The research paper: process, form, and content, Audrey J. Roth. 8th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1999.
Env Design LB2369.R66 1999 Reference
6. Researching and writing in the humanities and arts, Christine A. Hult. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, c1996.
EnvDesign AZ186 .H85 1996
7. Writing empirical research reports : a basic guide for students of the social and behavioral sciences, by Fred Pyrczak and Randall R. Bruce. 3rd ed. Los Angeles: Pyrczak Pub., 2000.
EnvDesign LB2369 P97 2000
8. Writing for design professionals: a guide to writing successful proposals, letters, brochures, portfolios, reports, presentations, and job applications for architects, engineers, and interior designers, by Stephen A. Kliment. NY: W.W. Norton, 1998.
EnvDesign NA1996 K57 1998

Style Manuals:
9. The Chicago manual of style. 15th ed. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 2003.
EnvDesign Z253.U69 2003 Reference
10. Citation styles, style manuals & avoiding plagiarism (UC Berkeley, Library) Includes a short bibliography of style manuals, and examples of citations for both print and electronic publications.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/instruct/guides/citations.html
11. Columbia guide to online style, by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor, NY: Columbia Univ. Pr., 1998. One of the most thorough guides to citing electronic resources available.
Online ed.: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
Print.: EnvDesign PN171 F56 W35 1998 Reference
12. Electronic styles: a handbook for citing electronic information, by Xia Li and Nancy B. Crane. 2nd ed. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1996.
EnvDesign PN171 F56 L5 1996 Reference
13. The MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing. 2nd ed. NY: Modern Language Assoc. of America, 1998.
EnvDesign PN147 G444 1998 Reference
14. MLA handbook for writers of research papers, Joseph Gibaldi. 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003.

Educ/Psych LB2369.G53 2003 Ref, Doe Refe, Moffitt
15. Style sheets for citing Internet resources: MLA, APA, Turabian (UC Berkeley, Library) Gives basic guidelines for formatting citations from a variety of electronic resources, adapted from the Columbia guide to online style.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/instruct/guides/citations.html

Bibliographic Management:
Managing bibliographic citations is a necessary and sometimes tedious aspect of written research. Use one or both of the following computer-based bibliographic management programs to manage citations, format papers, and create bibliographies in a variety of styles. Each program allows you to download citation information directly from selected online databases into your own bibliographic database.
18. EndNote: A proprietary bibliographic management software and a powerful tool for reseachers. It may also be purchased on campus from the Computer Store--The Scholar's Workstation. Citations saved in RefWorks can be exported to EndNote.
19. RefWorks - UCB Only: RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management service licensed by The Library for use by all current UCB faculty, staff and students. It allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from online databases, and use these references in writing papers and automatically formatting the paper and bibliography in seconds. As a web-based product, RefWorks is available to users across various platforms including Windows, Mac, Unix, etc. Although it lacks the power of EndNote, its ease of use makes it attractive. RefWorks also serves as a complement to EndNote, since citations saved to RefWorks can later be exported to EndNote. To sign up for an individual account, use the RefWorks New User form.
20. Tutorials:
The Library offers drop-in classes on both EndNote and RefWorks.

Bibliographic management - using EndNote (UC Berkeley, Library) Focusses on environmental design databases. Provides directions on how to use EndNote to download, export and import citations from online indexes and abstracts available to UC Berkeley faculty, students, and staff.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/bibmanagement.html

Online tutorials (UC Berkeley, Library) Here's a helpful directory of online tutorials for using EndNote and other bibliographic management software.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/endnote.html

Research Methods

General:

19. Becoming qualitative researchers: an introduction, Corrine Glesne. 2nd ed. New York : Longman, 1999.
Anthro H61.G555 1999 Reference
20. Collecting and interpreting qualitative materials, editors, Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2003. Esp. chapters on "The Interview," "Rethinking Observation," "Autoethnography," and "Applied Ethnography."
EnvDsgn, Anthro, Bus & Econ Main Stacks, H62.C566 2003
21. Community-based ethnography: breaking traditional boundaries of research, teaching, and learning Ernie Stringer...et.al. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997.
EnvDsgn, Anthro GN345.C643 1997
22. The Craft of research, by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams. 2nd ed. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 2003.
EnvDesign, Main, Moff Q180.55 M4 B66 2003
23. Critical evaluation of resources, UCB Library guide to making sense of what is out there and evaluating its authority and appropriateness for your research
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Evaluation.html
24. Design Research, methods and perspectives. Brenda Laurel, editor. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. Excellent chapters on methodology, including "Ethnography and Critical Design Practice," "Design Writing," "Interdisciplinary Design Research," etc.
Environ Dsgn, Engineering TA174.D483 2003
25. Doing team ethnography : warnings and advice. Ken C. Erickson, Donald D. Stull. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1998. Qualitative research methods; v. 42.
EnvDsgn, Doe Stacks GN33.E73 1998
26. The ethnographer's method, Alex Stewart. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1998. Qualitative research methods; v. 46
Anthro GN346.S74 1998 Reference
27. "Ethnographic approach to design," J. Blomberg et. al., in Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, ed. by Julie Jacko and Andrews Sears. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc, Publishers, 2003.
Educ/Psych, Engi QA76.9.H85.H8568 2003
28. Fieldwork in the library: a guide to research in anthropology and related area studies, R.C. Westerman. Chicago: American Library Association, 1994.
Anthro GN42.A12.W47 1994 Ref, Doe Ref GN42.A12.W47 1994 Non-circulating.
29. Handbook of applied social research methods, Leonard Bickman and Debra J. Rog, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998.
EnvDesign, Main, & PubHealth H62 H24534 1998
30. Inquiry by design: tools for environment-behavior research. John Zeisel. Monterey, Calif.: Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., 1981. Brooks/Cole basic concepts in environment and behavior series.
Env Des BF353.Z44
31. The Investigative reporter's handbook: a guide to documents, databases and techniques, by Brant Houston, Len Bruzzese, Steve Weinberg. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002.
EnvDesign PN4781 I578 2002
32. Library research using primary sources UC Berkeley, Teaching Library guide to finding and using original source material.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/instruct/guides/primarysources.html
33. Methods in environmental and behavioral research / edited by Robert B. Bechtel, Robert W. Marans, William Michelson. New York: Van Nostrand, 1987.
Environ Dsgn BF353.M481 1987
34. Paper trails, a guide to public records in California, by Stephen Levine and Barbara T. Newcombe. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Center for Investigative Reporting; Sacramento: California Newspaper Publishers Association, 1996.
EnvDesign CD3111.N48 1996 Ref Desk, PubHealth, Doe Ref
35. A practical guide to behavioral research: tools and techniques. Robert Sommer, Barbara Sommer. 5th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Educ/Psych, Main Stacks H62.S724734 2002
36. Quick ethnography, W. Penn Handwerker. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2001.
Anthropology GN345.H39 200; on order for EnvDsgn
37. Research methods in the social sciences, Chava Frankfort-Nachmias, David Nachmias. 6th ed. New York: Worth Publishers, 2000. book, plus CD, kept at Doe Main desk collection
Main Stack H61.N25 2000; Environ Dsgn H61.N251 1981(2nd ed.)
38. Research practice for cultural studies: ethnographic methods and lived cultures. Ann Gray. London: Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 2003.
Anthro H62.G729 2003 Reference
39. Researching and writing in the humanities and arts, by Christine A. Hult. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996.
EnvDesign AZ186 H85 1996
40. Researching and writing in the social sciences. Christine A. Hult. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996.
EnvDes, Doe Stacks H62.H725 1996
41. Social research methods: qualitative and quantitative approaches, by W. Lawrence Neuman. 5th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2003.
EnvDesign HM571 N48 2003
42. The social sciences: a cross-disciplinary guide to selected sources, ed. Nancy L. Herron. 3rd ed. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2002. Library and information science text series.
Doe Refe H61.A12.S648 2002 Non-circulating
43. Tricks of the trade: how to think about your research while you're doing it, by Howard S. Becker. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1998.
EnvDesign H91 B38 1998

Interpreting the Built Environment

44. Analyzing activity areas, an ethnoarchaeological study of the use of space. Susan Kent. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984.
Anth CC79.E85.K46 1984
45. Architecture as space, how to look at architecture, by Bruno Zevi; ed. by Joseph A. Barry. Rev. ed. New York: Horizon Press, [1974] Includes concepts of space through many eras, and different interpretations of architecture--political, religious, scientific, etc.
EnvDsgn NA2500.Z452 1974
46. Architecture everywhere: investigating the built environment of your community, by Joseph A.Weber. Tucson, AZ: Zephyr Pr. 2000.
EnvDesign NA705 W43 2000
47. Architecture, form, space & order, by Francis D.K. Ching. 2nd ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1996.
EnvDesign NA2760 .C46 1996
48. Buildings and society, essays on the social development of the built environment, edited by Anthony D. King. London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.
EnvDsgn NA2543.S6.B76
49. Cities & people, a social and architectural history. Mark Girouard. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
EnvDsgn HT111.G571 1988
50. Close-up, how to read the American city, Grady Clay. Phoenix, ed. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1980.
EnvDesign HT153 C585 1980
51. Cross-cultural studies and urban form. Amos Rapoport. College Park, Md.: Urban Studies Program, University of Maryland, [1993] Monograph series (University of Maryland at College Park. Urban Studies and Planning Program); no. 10. See esp. p. 15+ , "How might one go about doing cross-cultural research?" Excellent bibliography.
Environ Dsgn GN345.7.R37 1993
52. Learning from things: method and theory of material culture studies, edited by W. David Kingery. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
Anthro GN406 .L43 1996
53. The meaning of the built environment, a nonverbal communication approach, by Amos Rapoport.Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1990.
EnvDesign BF353 .R36 1990
54. Meaningful architecture: social interpretations of buildings, edited by Martin Locock. Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt., USA: Avebury; 1994. Worldwide archaeology series; 9.
Anthro NA2543.S6 M43 1994
55. Nearby history, exploring the past around you, David E. Kyvig and Myron A. Marty. 2nd ed. Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, c2000. American Association for State and Local History book series.
EnvDsgn E180.5.N98 2000
56. Public places, exploring their history, Gerald A. Danzer. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, published in cooperation with the American Association for State and Local History, c1997. American Association for State and Local History book series. Nearby history series.
EnvDsgn E180.D36 1997
57. Right before your eyes, penetrating the urban environment. Grady Clay. Washington, D.C.: American Planning Association; Chicago, Ill.: Planners Press, 1987.
EnvDesign HT153 .C58571 1987
58. Understanding buildings, a multidisciplinary approach. Esmond Reid. London: Construction Press, 1984.
EnvDesign TH145 .R42 1984b
59. "Understanding the Use of Space: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach," by Susan Kent, in Method and Theory for Activity Area Research: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach, ed. Susan Kent [1987]. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.

Anthro GF95.M481 1987

60. Handbook of interview research, context & methods, editors, Jaber F. Gubrium, James A. Holstein. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2002.
EnvDesign, EdPsych, Doe Stacks, Anthro Ref H61.28.H36 2002
61. Interviewing as qualitative research: a guide for researchers in education and the social sciences, by Irving Seidman. 2nd ed. NY: Teachers College Pr., 1998.
EnvDesign H61.28 S45 1998
62. Interviewing for social scientists: an introductory resource with examples, by Hilary Arksey and Peter Knight. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1999.
Main HM526 A75 1999
63. Interviews: an introduction to qualitative research interviewing, by Steinar Kvale. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1996.
EnvDesign HM48.9 K9 1996
64. Learning from strangers: the art and method of qualitative interview studies, by Robert S. Weiss. NY: Free Pr., 1995.
EnvDesign HN29 W42 1995
65. “Neutral questioning: a new approach to the reference interview,” by Dervin, Brenda; Dewdney, Patricia. RQ; 25 (4) Summer 86, 506-513. Neutral questioning is a strategy for conducting an interview in a way that allows a librarian to understand a query from the user's viewpoint. Neutral questions are open in form, avoid premature diagnosis of the problem, and structure the interview along dimensions important to the users. Derived from extensive studies into information-seeking behaviour, this strategy will be valuable in ethnographic research on design.
Main Stacks Main Z671 .R17
66. The oral history manual, Barbara W. Sommer, Mary Kay Quinlan. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2002. American Association for State and Local History book series.
Anthro, Moffitt D16.14.S69 2002 Reference
67. Qualitative interviewing: the art of hearing data, by Herbert J. Rubin and Irene S. Rubin.Thousand Oaks: Sage Pubications, 1995.
EnvDesign, Main, Moff H62 R737 1995

Using Images for Research:

68. Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the U.S. (c) 2004, by Peter B. Hirtle, an excellent, concise guide to determining what is in the public domain.
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
69. Eyewitnessing: the uses of images as historical evidence, by Peter Burke. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Pr., 2001.
EnvDesign, Anth, Main, & Moff H61 H83 2001
70. Image-based research: a sourcebook for qualitative researchers, Jon Prosser, ed. Bristol, PA: Falmer Pr., 1998.
EnvDesign & Anth GN347 I43 1998
71. Picture researcher's handbook, an international guide to picture sources and how to use them, Hilary and Mary Evans. 7th ed. London: Pira International, 2001
EnvDesign N4000.E8 2001 Reference
72. Researching the visual: images, objects, contexts and interactions in social and cultural inquiry, by Michael Emmison. London: Sage, 2000.
EnvDesign, Main HM500 E56 2000
73. Visual anthropology: photography as a research method, by John Collier, Jr., and Malcolm Collier, rev. and expanded ed. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Pr., 1986.
Online ed.: UCB Only
Print: EnvDesign GN347 C64 1986
74. Visual methodologies: an introduction to the interpretation of visual materials, by Gillian Rose. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001.
EnvDesign & Main P93.5 R67 2001
75. Visual methods in social research, by Marcus Banks. London: SAGE, 2001.
EnvDesign, Anth, Main HM500 B35 2001
76. Visual research methods in design, Henry Sanoff. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.
EnvDesign NA2750.S25 1991

Research Guides:Here is a selected list of specialized architecture and related research guides to UC Berkeley library and web resources. See also Environmental Design Library Guides for a complete list of subject guides and other useful research tools.

77. Art information and the Internet: how to find it, how to use it, by Lois Swan Jones. Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1999. Excellent advice. Includes architecture

EnvDesign N59.J66 1999 Reference
78. Art information: research methods and resources, by Lois Jones. 3rd ed. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1990. Although slightly dated, offers excellent strategies, including for architectural research.
EnvDesign N85 J64 1990 Reference

 

American Communities http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/amercomm.html Anthropology Library http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ANTH Architecture reference sources http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/ArchRef.html Ethnic Studies http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/ethn_std.html Finding Information on Buildings and Places http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/bldgs.html Finding Local Information http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/locinfo.html

History of Architecture http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/ArchHist.html History of Planning & Urbanism http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/histplan.html History of the US Cultural Environment http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/cult.html San Francisco Bay Area Architects & Architecture http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/sfindex.html Urban design http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/urbhist.html Vernacular Architecture Resources http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/vernacular.html

.Basic Reference Sources

Bibliographies
Also check for bibliographies and footnotes in every helpful source you locate.
79. Architecture, environmental design, and the human psyche: recent journal articles.  Dale E. Casper.  Monticello, Ill. : Vance Bibliographies, [1987]

EnvDsgn NA200.A12; A7 no.1759; Index

80. The behavior-environment-design interface: a guide to sources. J. Douglas Porteous. Monticello, Ill. : Council of Planning Librarians, 1975.
EnvDsgn MICROFICHE 7179 no.900
81. Environmental sociology: a bibliography of conceptual, methodological, and theoretical readings.  Riley E. Dunlap. Monticello, Ill.: Vance Bibliographies, [1983].
EnvDsgn NA200.A12; A7 no.1001; Index
82. Psychological aspects of housing and the built-environment: a bibliography.  Marjorie Inman.  Monticello, Ill.: Vance Bibliographies, [1987]
EnvDsgn NA200.A12; A7 no.1902; Index
83. Psychological aspects of architecture: a bibliography.  Mary Vance.  Monticello, Ill. : Vance Bibliographies, 1983.
EnvDsgn NA200.A12; A7 no.939; Index
84. Resources in environment-behavior studies  compiled by Gary T. Moore and the faculty and students of the Ph. D. Program.  Milwaukee: Dept. of Architecture, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1991.
EnvDsgnNA2542.4.A12; R43 1991
85. Social factors and environmental design: reciprocal relations of society and man-made environment. Thomas H. Jenkins.  Monticello, Ill. : Council of Planning Librarians, 1978
EnvDsgn Microfiche 7179 no.1511

86. Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology.  Melvyn Ember.  New York, NY: Henry and Holt, 1996.
Anthro GN307.E52 1996 v. 1-4  Indexes and Encyclopedias
87. Encyclopedia of multiculturalism.  Editor, Susan Auerbach. New York : Marshall Cavendish, c1994.
Main Stack E184.A1.E58 1994, v. 1-6, Library Use Only
88. Encyclopedia of vernacular architecture of the world, edited by Paul Oliver. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 3 vol. Excellent bibliographies.
EnvDsgn NA208.E53 1997  Reference
89. Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America.  Editor, Robert von Dassanowsky. 2nd ed. Detroit : Gale Group, c2000.
Doe Refe, Moffitt Ref E184.A1.G14 2000 v. 1-3
90. Grove Art Online - UCB Only  The electronic version of the Grove Dictionary (encyclopedia) of Art. Contains articles on every aspect of visual arts including painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography. Also includes biographical information on major artists, bibliographical references and links to images.
Print:  EnvDsgn, Doe Ref  N31.D5 1996  Reference,  v.1-34
91. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (IESBS) - UCB Only  This major social science reference work is the electronic version of the 26 volume IESBS set published in 2001. It contains over 3800 articles spread over 99 subject areas. Links from references to full text articles and browsable indexes makes this work a key research tool.
Print:  Anthro, Doe Ref   H41.I58 2001  v. 1-26.
92. Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences  http://bitbucket.icaap.org/

93. Guide to Library Catalogs, help in determining which UC library catalog to use, and how to use them.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Catalogs/guide.html
94. Pathfinder is the UCB Library catalog, however, it does not include holdings from the affiliated libraries on campus, such as the Water Resources, Law, Governmental Studies, Earthquake Engineering, Transportation libraries, which are in the Melvyl catalog.
http://pathfinder.berkeley.edu/
95. GLADIS, the telnet version of Pathfinder, is the only place to renew books you have borrowed and check the inventory of what you currently have, and to view lists of books on reserve for courses.
telnet://gladis.berkeley.edu/
96. Melvyl®.  The Melvyl catalog is your best first place to look for books on your topic. (Melvyl® is a registered trademark of The Regents of the University of California.) It contains approximately 23 million holdings in all 9 UC campuses and selected other libraries, including the California Historical Society and the Center for Research Libraries.
http://melvyl.cdlib.org
97. UC e-Links  provides a way to easily move from an article or book citation to the electronic version of the item; to check to see if the item is available on your campus or to Request items not available on your campus.  http://www.cdlib.org/about/uc-elinks/overview.html
UC-eLinks Tutorial:  a tool for Information Access,  a 2:49 minute online "movie" demonstrating how to access items identified in most online UC library resources.
UC e-Links Citation Linker,  UC e-Links interactive form to identify resources in the UC Libraries, and if not available at UCB, initiate an interlibrary loan request.  Select either book, article or book chapter, and complete as much information as possible. http://ucelinks.cdlib.org:8888/citation/sfx_local
98. Finding books on ethnic groups,

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/cult.html#bketh

99. Finding books on California and the Bay Area:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/cult.html#bkcal
100. Finding books on specific building types:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/cult.html#bksp
101. Subject headings: Hint: Use the Advanced Search in the library catalogs.  This allows you to combine keywords (and, or, not), authors, subject headings and more, and limit by date, language, etc.  Modify subject headings with the addition of place names and/or

Standard subject sub-heading terms, such as these: (example:  Architecture--Cross-cultural studies)

Bibliographies Case studies Cross-cultural studies Design and construction Designs and plans Details Economic aspects Environmental aspects

Handbooks, manuals History Methodology Pictorial works Psychological aspects Research Social aspects Social life and customs

Examples of subject headings helpful for researching topics on the social and cultural aspects of architecture and urban design are:

Architectural design--Evaluation Architectural practice--Social aspects Architecture and society Architecture and society--Cross-cultural studies Architecture--Human factors Architecture--Psychological aspects Architecture--Social aspects Architecture--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies Design--Social aspects Dwellings--Cross-cultural studies Environmental psychology

Environmental psychology--Cross-cultural studies Ethnicity Ethnoarchaeology Ethnology Ethnology--Cross-cultural studies Housing--Cross-cultural studies Housing--Social aspects Human ecology Space (architecture)--Cross-cultural studies Spatial behavior--Cross-cultural studies Urban anthropology

102. Interlibrary Borrowing Service UC Only  The Library will try to borrow materials not available on campus.  Make your request electronically through the UC e-Links and Request feature in online databases, via the web:  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ILS/ibs.html, or at any reference desk.  Turnaround time averages two to three weeks. NRLF Northern Regional Library Facility, the off-campus storage facility for the northern campuses of the UC Libraries.  Materials in NRLF are so indicated in the Library catalogs, and can be requested online in Pathfinder by clicking on the NRLF button and completing the form that appears, or by filling out the form on their website.  Most material is delivered within 48 hours (excluding Sundays), and requests for some articles can be filled electronically.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/NRLF/

104. UC e-Links  provides a way to easily move from an article or book citation to the electronic version of the item,  to check to see if the item is available in print on your campus, or to electronically request items not available on your campus.
http://www.cdlib.org/about/uc-elinks/overview.html
UC-eLinks Tutorial:  a tool for Information Access,  a 2:49 minute online "movie" demonstrating how to access items identified in most online UC library resources.
UC e-Links Citation Linker,  UC e-Links interactive form to identify resources in the UC Libraries, and if not available at UCB, initiate an interlibrary loan request.  Select either book, article or book chapter, and complete as much information as possible. http://ucelinks.cdlib.org:8888/citation/sfx_local
105. Key Architecture Indexes:  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/keyarchindexes.html A comparative to the four most important architectural indexes.
106. Architecture: Indexes & abstracts:  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/indexes.html A long list of journals with good coverage of architectural topics.

107. Access:UCB Only  The Supplementary Index to Periodicals.  Indexes approximately 85 of the most important popular periodicals, new national publications as they first appear, and most major city and regional magazines not indexed in the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, the standard periodical index of popular periodicals.  ONLINE:  1987-present America: History and LifeUC Only Contains bibliographic citations and abstracts for articles and dissertations on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistory to the present.  A good source for social and cultural histories of architecture and building types, including vernacular. Web via Library Homepage, Electronic Indexes and Abstracts,  1964 -- . Print:1954 --  Doe Info Center. E3 .A43 Art Fulltext, Art Index Retrospective  UC Only  Indexes journal articles in art, design, and architecture, landscape, urban design, and planning.   Online: 1929--; Print : 1929-1995. EnvDesign N18 A72 Indexes. Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals UC Only  The primary and most comprehensive periodical article index for architecture and all aspects of environmental design. It indexes more than 2500 scholarly and professional journals from all over the world in the subjects of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. Article citations from the 1990's on contain brief abstracts. Incorporates the Burnham Index (see below) and includes obituaries and book reviews. Early volumes have only minimal coverage of the West Coast. Allows sorting by date, EndNote exporting and Limiting by type of illustration.
Online: Selected coverage from the 1860s -- present, weekly updates. Print: 1890-1993, EnvDesign fNA8.C64 Indexes v. 1-15, 1890-1972; Sup v. 1-14, 1973-1993 Index
108. Expanded Academic ASAP UC Only  Contains records for articles from popular magazines, general interest journals, scholarly journals and newspapers in the humanities, social sciences, and general sciences. The complete text of articles (including some full-text images) are available for many of the journals covered in the database. Coverage includes 1980 to the present. Readers Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 - UC Only  Provides searchable access to citations from more than 500 leading U.S. magazines. Coverage includes 1890-1982.
109. Sociological Abstracts - UC Only  Citations for articles from over 1,900 journals, books, book chapters, and reviews in the social sciences. Topics covered include anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law, social psychology, sociology, and urban development. Coverage includes 1963 - present.

114. Urban Design Indexes:  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/urbhist.html#Finding%20JournalAnthropology Indexes:  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ANTH/find/articles.html
115. Ethnic Studies Indexes:  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/find_articles.html

Finding Newspaper Articles: Local newspapers are vital sources of information on their communities.  Increasingly, recent issues are available full-text through the Web or other databases.  Several databases have historical indexes and/or full-text for newspapers.

117. Use GLADIS (the telnet version of the Pathfinder catalog) to identify newspapers by location (but not all newspapers have received geographic access, so results may be incomplete).  Type:  f ng [country] [state] [county] [city].  For example:  F NG UNITED STATES CALIFORNIA ALAMEDA BERKELEY.  For a more comprehensive list of newspapers on the web see Electronic Resources, News Databases,  The Library's web page. America's newspapers via NewsBank - UCB Only  Coverage begins with 1991. Provides selected full-text articles from more than 300 US newspapers, including several California titles not indexed in Lexis-Nexis. Ethnic NewsWatch  UC Only  News, culture and history from 275 publications and full-text coverage of approximately 100 newspapers and other periodicals dating back to 1960 (coverage varies by title) published by ethnic and minority presses in the U.S. Includes articles published in African-American, Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, Native American, Asian, Jewish, Arab, and European/Eastern European publications. Historical Newspapers (Proquest) - UCB Only Full-text of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times & Wall Street Journal, LA Times. To search all of the newspapers, on the ProQuest home page click on the Database: Multiple databases... menu list down arrow. Then select from the menu list the newspaper you wish to search.  Select Historical Databases for earliest years, and Proquest Newspapers for more recent years. Historical Newspapers Online - UCB Only  Contains four major historical resources: Palmer's Index to the Times (London) 1790 to 1905; The Official Index to the Times (London), 1906 to 1980; The Historical Index to the New York Times, 1851-September 1922 (The current release of the The Historical Index to The New York Times contains data from the years 1863 to 1905.); Palmer's Full Text Online 1785-1870, providing access to the full text articles referenced in Palmer's index to the Times. Lexis-Nexis academic - UCB Only  Includes full-text newspapers and selected periodicals. Newspaper and Periodical Indexes for California  http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/newsindexes.html
List of indexes of California newpapers and periodicals available in the Bancroft Library.
118. U.S. newspaper archives on the web http://metalab.unc.edu/slanews/internet/archives.html
Provides links to web versions of dozens of U.S. newspapers and their full-text, online back files.

125. American Communities, Newspapers  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/amercomm.html#Newspapers
126. Finding Local Information, Newspapers  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/locinfo.html#news

127. Aerial photos:  The Earth Sciences & Map Library (ESML) has an excellent collection of aerial photos of California, 1939--present. A master index is available in ESML. Some digitized aerial photos of the San Francisco Bay Area are available on The Library's SunSite: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/EART/AerialPhotos/ American memory: historical collections for the national digital library(Library of Congress) The multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections. Over one million items are currently available online.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html
128. Atlases, maps and gazeteers  From the UCB Library homepage, select Electronic resources, Atlases, Maps & Gazetters, for links to and descriptions of important digital map collections.  See also the Earth Sciences & Map Library's homepage for additional print and electronic map resources.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/
129. California heritage project. The California Heritage collection is a digital "archive" containing photographs, pictures, and manuscripts from the collections of The Bancroft Library. Includes many historical images of SF Bay Area places.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/
130. Cities and buildings database compiled by the Univ. of Washington Libraries.  An international image database of cities and buildings; search the database by country, city, style, title, architect, date of construction, as well as other fields.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/cities/
131. David Rumsey Collection Over 10,000 maps online, many of city blocks and building illustrations. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. See also their Visual Collections, Architecture.
http://www.davidrumsey.com/
http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/architecture.html
132. Environmental design videotapes in the Media Resources Center  A guide to environmental design videos at UC Berkeley.  You can also search Pathfinder and Melvyl by subject or keyword and limit format to videos, films, movies.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/EnvidesignVid.html
133. Great Buildings A searchable, gateway site to plans, drawings and photographs of buildings worldwide throughout history.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/
134. Images Sources for the Built Environment   compiled by the Environmental Design Library, a list of print and electronic sources with plans, illustrations and photos of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/pict.html
135. MOAC, Museum Online Archive of California,  a searchable collection of more than 75,000 images from California museums and cultural institutions.
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/
136. Online Archive of California,  Over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to archival collections.  Organizes images into thematic and institutional collections, such as historical topics, nature, places, and technology.
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
137. Plat maps, also called fire insurance maps, show a variety of details, including actual lot boundaries, special uses, building materials and building footprints. For a bibliography on using fire insurance maps in research, see Fire insurance plans.
-----. Digital Sanborn maps, 1867-1970 (UMI) -UCB Only  Site provides digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. The maps "are large-scale plans containing...information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers."-----. Fire insurance maps (UC Berkeley, Library) Links to description of and indexes to fire insurance maps.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/sanborn.html
138. San Francisco Public Library Digitized Images Searchable by Subject or Neighborhood.
http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/sfhistory/browse.htm
139. S.P.I.R.O. Architecture Visual Resources Library, Univ. of California, Berkeley. The visual online public access catalog to approximately 20% of the AVRL's collection of over 250,000 35mm slides. The collection is available to UCB faculty and graduate students.
http://shanana.berkeley.edu/spiro/

142. How to Research in an Archive, University of Texas, Austin, Alexander Architectural Archive, An excellent introduction to effective and efficient use of an archive.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/apl/aaa/instruction.html
143. Using Archives, a practical guide for researchers  Library and Archives Canada, Another good guide to using archives for research.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/04/0416_e.html
144. Library Research Using Primary Sources:  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/instruct/guides/primarysources.htmlArchitectural records in the San Francisco Bay Area: a guide to research, California Cooperative Preservation of Architectural Records, Waverly B. Lowell, project director. New York: Garland, 1988. Garland reference library of the humanities vol. 799.
EnvDesign NA2125.C22 S2631 1988 Reference desk
145. Architecture Archives  compiled by Martin Aurand, Architecture Librarion and Archivist, Carnegie Mellon University. Links to numerous architectural archives in North America.
http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/ArchArch/netsites.html
146. ArchivesUSA UCB Only.  A directory of manuscript repositories, records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections, and the names and detailed subject indexing of over 42,000 collections. Bancroft Library, UCB's special collections and rare book library, has extensive holdings related to California, western and Latin American architecture.  Finding aids for many are available through the Online Archive of California.
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
147. Directory of archival and manuscript repositories in California, by Diance S. Nixon, Society of California Archivists 4th ed. [Berkeley, Calif.?] 1996
EnvDsgn CD3111.A72 Reference
148. Directory of archives and manuscript repositories in the United States, National Historical Publications and Records Commision. 2nd ed. Phonix: Oryx Press, 1988.
EnvDesign CD3020.D49 1988 Reference Desk
149. Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley. Drawings, papers and other archival materials of mostly Bay Area and Northern California architects and landscape architects. Available by appointment only.
http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives/
Links to similar archival collections: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives/links.html
150. Online Archive of California Over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to archival collections. Includes finding aids for architectural manuscripts and drawings in the UCB Bancroft Library, Environmental Design Archives, and many other California collections. Can search all collections at once.
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
151. Repositories of Primary Sources, University of Idaho Library's international list
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
152. Subject collections: a guide to special book collections and subject emphases as reported by university, college, public, and special libraries and museums in the United States and Canada, compiled by Lee Ash. 7th ed., rev. and enl. New Providence, N.J.: R. R. Bowker, c1993.
Doe Ref Z731 A78 1993 vol.1-2 (c1993)
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Related Archival Collections

Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 telephone 510-642-6481 www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association, 2318 Durant St., Berkeley, 94704 telephone 510-841-2242  http://www.berkeleyheritage.com/ Berkeley Historical Society,  Veteran's Building, at 1931 Center Street telephone 510-848-0181 www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/histsoc/  California Historical Society Library, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA  94105 telephone 415-357-1848 http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/collections/northbaker_research.html California State Archives,  1020 O Street, Sacramento, CA 95814 telephone 916-653-7715 www.ss.ca.gov/archives/archives.htm California State Library, California Section,  900 N Street, Room 200, (mailing  address:  P.O. Box 42837), Sacramento, CA 94237-0001telephone 916-654- 0176 www.lib.state.ca.us California State Library, Sutro Library, 480 Winston Drive, San Francisco, CA 94132 telephone 415-731-4477 http://www.onelibrary.com/Library/calslsut.htm Environmental Design Archives, University of California, 230 Wurster Hall  #1820, Berkeley, CA 94720-1820 telephone  510.642.5124 www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives

National Archives--Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel), 24000 Avila Road, Laguna Niguel, CA 92656 telephone 714-360-2641 http://www.archives.gov/pacific/laguna/ National Archives--Pacific Region (San Francisco), 1000 Commodore Drive, San Bruno, CA  94066 telephone 650-876-9018 http://www.archives.gov/facilities/pacific_region.html Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Room, 125 14th Street, Oakland, CA 94612 telephone 510-238-3222 http://www.oaklandlibrary.org/Seasonal/Sections/oakhr.html San Francisco Architectural Heritage, 2007 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 telephone 415-441-3000 http://www.sfheritage.org/home.html San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department, Fort Mason Center Building E, San Francisco, CA 94123telephone  415-556-9870 http://www.nps.gov/safr/ San Francisco History Room and Archives, San Francisco Public Library, Civic Center, San Francisco, CA 94102 telephone 415-557-4567http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/sfhistory/sfhistory.htm Water Resources Center Archives 410 O'Brien Hall Berkeley CA 94720-1718telephone 510 642-2666 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/WRCA/

Related Libraries:

Anthropology Library (ANTH 230 Kroeber Hall http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ANTH/ The Bancroft Library (BANC) East wing, Doe Library http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ Business & Economics (BUSI) Student Services Wing Haas School of Business http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BUSI/ Center for Chinese Studies Ground floor 2223 Fulton St. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/CCSL/

Doe Reference Center (Doe Refe) 2nd floor, Main Library http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/reference.html Earth Sciences & Map (EART) 50 McCone Hall http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/ Ethnic Studies Library 30 Stephens Hall http://eslibrary.berkeley.edu/ Media Resources Center (MRC) Moffitt Library 1st floor http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/

155. "Ethnographic field methods and their relation to design," by Jeanette Blomberg et. al., in Participatory design : principles and practices, edited by Douglas Schuler, Aki Namioka. Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1993, p. 123-55..
Main Stack QA76.9.S88.P38 1993
156. "Behavioral scientists enter design," by William Reese in Creating breakthrough ideas: the collaboration of anthropologists and designers in the product development industry, ed. by Susan Squires and Bryan Byrne. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 2002. Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy034/2001037914.html
Anthropology TS183.C73 2002
157. Some place like home : using design psychology to create ideal places. Toby Israel. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2003.
EnvDsgn NA2542.4.I77 2003

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