Research Guides
Urban Design and Planning (UrDP): Articles
Subject Guide for Urban Design and Planning Students.
Getting Started
There are 2 approaches that you can use to find articles in professional journals:
1. Use the "Articles" tab to find an ARTICLE DATABASE to search a large number of journals all at once.
2. Use the "E-Journals" tab to go a SINGLE PUBLICATION directly and search for articles within that publication.
Find Urban Design and Planning Articles
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Index to publications in architecture, urban design, urban planning, interior design, and historic preservation from 1741 to present.
- Art Abstracts/Art Index RetrospectiveArt Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective cover the fields of Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video;
Coverage: late 1920s—Present
Provider: WilsonWeb
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Comprehensive resource covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, folk art, film, architecture, and architectural design. 1995 - present.
- CumInCADCumInCAD is a cumulative, open acess index of publications about computer aided architectural design. It includes bibliographic information about over 12,300 records from journals and conferences such as ACADIA, ASCAAD, CAADRIA, eCAADe, SiGraDi, CAAD futures, DDSS and others. All papers include full abstracts. Full texts, in PDF, of some 9,600 papers are also available. Published papers relating to building performance may be retrieved directly from the IBPSA-website.
- Design & Applied Arts Index This link opens in a new window
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Articles, news, and reviews covering design and applied arts, 1973-present. - GeoRef This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly publications covering the geosciences: environmental and engineering geology, hydrology, economic geology, geophysics, petrology, paleontology, marine geology and oceanography, and mineralogy.
- Journal of Plannng LiteratureIndexes 400+ journals and provides comprehensive coverage of the city and regional planning literature. Browse and Search functions.
Coverage: 1999—Present
Provider: Sage Publications - Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) CatalogArchitectural Publications Index (API) compiled by the British Architectural Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Coverage: varies
Publically Available
- TRID This link opens in a new windowTransportation Research Board database for articles and reports covering all aspects of all modes of transportation.
Article Databases in Related Fields
- America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly articles on American and Canadian history - Compendex This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive and interdisciplinary coverage of the world's literature in every field of engineering, 1884 - present. - EconLit This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly articles, books, dissertations, working papers and book reviews on economics. 1886-present. - Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly articles and other material covering environmental sciences. - GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary database covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. - Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Index and full text of scholarly articles covering world history (excluding U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present. - PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
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Social and public policy literature from periodicals, government documents, books, and other sources. - PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
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Academic, research, and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines, 1872 to present. - Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Journal articles in the field of sociology, including international literature and other related disciplines.
General Article Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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This is a general search engine that contains articles derived from a variety of article databases. - Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Includes:
Science Citation Index Expanded (1899-present)
Social Sciences Citation Index (1975-present)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present) - Hathi Trust This link opens in a new window
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Digital library of books and journals scanned by a partnership of major research institutions and libraries. See our HathiTrust Guide - Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowScholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
See help for accessing articles from off-campus through Google Scholar.
Peer Reviewed Articles
Some article databases provide a limiting feature that will select results appearing only in peer-reviewed journals;
UW Libraries Search (below) has a peer-review feature on its column of results limiters.
Other databases that have peer review limiting:
- Ebsco Academic Search Complete (General)
- All other Ebsco databases such as America: History and Life (History), Philosopher's Index (Philosophy), PsycInfo (Psychology), and ERIC (Education
- All Proquest databases such as MLA International Biography (English) and PAIS (Political Science)
- All titles in JSTOR and Project Muse are peer-reviewed.
Video Tutorials
- How do I request an article from Interlibrary Loan?
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Learn how to request digital scans of articles through UW Libraries Interlibrary Loan department.
Time - 1:25 - How do I download a PDF of a scholarly article?
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Learn how to download scholarly journal articles from UW Libraries' databases.
TIme - 1:10 - How do I save a citation from the UW Libraries catalog?
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Learn how to save a citation while searching in the UW Libraries Search.
Time - 1:08 - What are the elements of a journal citation?
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Learn how to identify citation elements of a journal article with different citation styles.
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