Research Guides: Urban Design and Architecture Studies: Print Resources

Resources in Print: LOC call number NA1-9428: Architecture

Getting Started

Subject headings are keywords, or "tags" that librarians give to a title. Unlike ordinary keywords, subject headings describe what the book is about in a consistent way by gathering all the random terms used to describe a topic in natural language, and connecting them to an official subject heading.

Learning and using the subject headings for your field of study can give much more focused and relevant results. See below for some tips on using subject headings for research in Architecture and Urban Design.

Subject Headings for Research in Architecture:

Architecture -- [place name, style, time period]

The subject heading "Architecture" will find works on the design and style of structures. Works on the process of construction are entered under "Building". General works on structures or edifices are entered under "Buildings". This heading can be subdivided by place for works on architecture indigenous to the place named, e.g. Architecture--United States, or time period, e.g. Architecture, modern -- 21st century. To search a specific style format the subject heading style first, e.g. Art deco (Architecture).

Other useful subject headings:

Architectural Design
Architectural Design -- history
Architectural photography

Landscape Architecture

Women in Architecture by Ursula Schwitalla
ISBN: 9783775748575
Publication Date: 2021-04-13
The voices of thirty-six internationally active women architects are heard through their own projects. This diverse panorama is supplemented by essays on pioneering female architects, and analyses that get to the bottom of the structural discrimination against women architects.
Race and Modern Architecture by Irene Cheng (Editor); Charles L. Davis (Editor); Mabel O. Wilson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780822946052
Publication Date: 2020-05-26
Although race--a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination--has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theory in Europe and North America and across various global contexts since the eighteenth century.
Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture, Third Edition by Ernest Burden
ISBN: 9780071772938
Publication Date: 2012-02-27
Now in full color--a thoroughly updated edition of the premier illustrated architectural dictionary Revised and expanded, the Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture, Third Edition, features 8,000 definitions, 4,000 illustrations, and biographies of hundreds of architects accompanied by classic examples of their work. This new, full-color edition includes terms relating to green, ecological, and sustainable architecture.
Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture by R. Stephen Sennott (Editor)
ISBN: 9781579582432
Publication Date: 2003-12-09
Focusing on architecture from all regions of the world, this three-volume set profiles the twentieth century's vast chronicle of architectural achievements, both within and well beyond the theoretical confines of modernism. Unlike existing works, this encyclopedia examines the complexities of rapidly changing global conditions that have dispersed modern architectural types, movements, styles, and building practices across traditional geographic and cultural boundaries.

Reference Sources in Print: LOC call number: City Planning/Urban Design -- NA 9000-9430; (also HT)

Subject Headings for Research in Urban Design:

Urban design and planning theory are interdisciplinary fields covered by a wide range of subject headings depending on your focus. Subject headings and keywords can be combined for best results. Some examples of subject useful headings:

City planning
Architecture -- Urban and land use planning
Sustainable urban development
Architecture and society
Urbanization
Parks -- Design and Construction

Cities of Tomorrow by Peter Hall
ISBN: 9781118456477
Publication Date: 2014-06-03
Peter Hall's seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth edition offers a perceptive, critical, and global history of urban planning and design throughout the twentieth-century and beyond.
Sustainable Urban Development Reader by Stephen M. Wheeler (Editor)
ISBN: 9781032214092
Publication Date: 2022-12-30
This thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of The Sustainable Urban Development Reader combines classic and contemporary readings to provide a broad introduction to the topic that is accessible to general and undergraduate audiences.
The City Creative by Michael H. Carriere; David Schalliol
ISBN: 9780226727226
Publication Date: 2021-04-18
The City Creative mounts a comprehensive study of placemaking in urban America, tracing its intellectual history and contrasting it with the efforts of people making positive change in their communities today. Spanning the 1950s to the post-recession 2010s, The City Creative highlights the roles of such prominent individuals and organizations as Jane Jacobs, Christopher Alexander, Richard Sennett, Project for Public Spaces, and the National Endowment for the Arts in the development of urban placemaking, both in the abstract and on the ground.
Aesthetics of Gentrification by Christoph Lindner (Editor)
ISBN: 9789463722032
Publication Date: 2021-03-22
Gentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in seductive spaces and exclusive communities that aspire to innovation, creativity, sustainability, and technological sophistication. Gentrification is also contributing to growing social-spatial division and urban inequality and precarity. In a time of escalating housing crisis, unaffordable cities, and racial tension, scholars speak of eco-gentrification, techno-gentrification, super-gentrification, and planetary gentrification to describe the different forms and scales of involuntary displacement occurring in vulnerable communities in response to current patterns of development and the hype-driven discourses of the creative city, smart city, millennial city, and sustainable city.