LibGuides: Urban Studies: Books

Searching for Books

Some tips for searching the Library catalog:

Use a Keyword search to find books about a certain topic.
Use a Title search to find a specific book when you have the title.
Use the Author search to find books written by a certain author.
Click the Subjects of useful titles to find books on related subjects. Some relevant subject headings include:
- Cities and towns
- Sociology, Urban
- Urbanization
- City planning
Browse the library shelves around the call numbers that relate to your topic to find additional materials. Books on urban studies are shelved in the HT range.
- HT 101-395: Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology

Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Urban Studies by Myron Alfred Levine
Call Number: HT123 .T35

Taking Sides volumes present current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills.
The City: the Basics by Kevin Archer
Call Number: HT151 .A724

Provides a brief yet compelling overview of the study of cities and city life.
Restless Cities by Matthew Beaumont (Editor); Gregory Dart (Editor)
Call Number: HT119 .R47

Traces the idiosyncratic character of the metropolitan city from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first-century megalopolis.
Saving Our Cities by William W. Goldsmith
Call Number: HT167 .G665

In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems.
Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs by Jonathan Barnett; Larry Beasley
Call Number: HT391 .B353

In six comprehensively illustrated chapters, the authors explain ecodesign concepts, and how to implement them.

Global Cities and Global Order by Simon Curtis
Call Number: Electronic Book

This book argues that we must understand the rise of the global city as part of a wider process of the transformation of international political order, and of the character of international society.
The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth by Margaret Kohn
Call Number: Electronic Book

Proposes a productive way to rethink struggles over gentrification, public housing, transit, and public space.