Research Guides: Real Estate: Featured Display: Community Development & Placemaking

Books on Display

Cities by Design by Fran Tonkiss
Call Number: HT151 .T66 2013
ISBN: 9780745648972
Publication Date: 2014
Cities for People by Jan Gehl
Call Number: HT166 .G438 2010
ISBN: 9781597265737
Publication Date: 2010
Communities and Networks by Katherine Giuffre
Call Number: HM756 .G58 2013
ISBN: 9780745654195
Publication Date: 2013
Design of Cities by Edmund N. Bacon
Call Number: NA9050 .B22 1976
ISBN: 9780140042368
Publication Date: 1976
Housing and Community Development in New York City by Michael H. Schill (Editor)
Call Number: HD7304.N5 H544 1999
ISBN: 0791440400
Publication Date: 1999
How to Turn a Place Around by Project For Public Spaces
Call Number: HT167 .H69 2000
ISBN: 9780970632401
Publication Date: 2000
Masterplanning the Adaptive City by Tom Verebes (Ed)
Call Number: HT166 .V463 2014
ISBN: 9780415534802
Publication Date: 2013
Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs by Paul Watt (Editor); Peer Smets (Editor)
Call Number: HT155 .M63 2014
ISBN: 9781137003621
Publication Date: 2014
Neighbors and Neighborhoods by Sidney Brower
Call Number: HT166 .B79 2011
ISBN: 9781611900019
Publication Date: 2012
Neighbourhood Planning by Nick Gallent; Steve Robinson
Call Number: HT391 .G344 2012
ISBN: 9781447300069
Publication Date: 2012
Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process by Steve Tiesdell; David Adams
Call Number: HT165.5 .U723 2011
ISBN: 9781405192194
Publication Date: 2011

Database recommendations

C2ER Regional Economic Data Toolkit This link opens in a new window
Includes 4 searchable and downloadable US-focused datasets: cost of living index, state incentives, state expenditures, and economic diversity index. These resources are designed to help researchers better understand economic development progress and policies. The cost of living index search tool allows users to compare the cost of living across 300+ US metro areas, and includes Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. C2ER's data and methodology are reviewed by an advisory board composed of academic researchers and government officials.
Index to Current Urban Documents (Via Policy Commons) This link opens in a new window
Provided via Policy Commons, Index to Current Urban Documents contains reports generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies from major cities in the United States and Canada. The core of the collection contains fiscal and architecture & planning documents. The Index also provides information for all urban-related issues, from hazardous waste disposal to arts in the community.
Policy File This link opens in a new window
Policy FIle offers access to U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature, with abstracts and links to timely reports, papers, and documents from think tanks, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), research institutes, advocacy groups, agencies, and other entities.

Community Development and Planning Journals (and Journal Collections)

Community Development
Publication Date: 2003-
Peer-reviewed academic journal aims to advance theory, research, practice, and teaching that serves purposive community change.
Evidence Matters by HUD, Office of Policy Development & Research
Publication Date: 2011-
Each quarterly issue focuses on a key theme and highlights policy-relevant research that connects policymakers at all levels, as well as researchers, advocates, and industry members, with clear, accessible, and timely information.
Local Development & Society
Publication Date: 2020-
Repository of cross-disciplinary academic research in local contexts that will be integrated with national, provincial, state, and community practices.

Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
SAGE includes urban studies and planning titles such as: City & Community; Economic Development Quarterly; Environment and Planning D: Society & Space; Environment & Urbanization; Global Social Policy; Journal of Development Policy & Practice; Journal of Environment & Development; Local Economy; Progress in Development Studies; Review of Development & Change; Transactions in Urban Data, Science and Technology
Taylor and Francis Online This link opens in a new window
Includes journals such as: CoDesign; Innovation & Development; Journal of Social Entrepreneurship; Architecture & Culture; Area Development & Policy; City; disP - The Planning Review; Housing Theory and Society; Journal of Mega Infrastructure & Sustainable; Development; Journal of the American Planning Assn; Journal of Urban Design; Journal of Urban Technology; Sustainable Communities; Urban, Planning and Transport Research