Planning: Planning Resources Overview
Key Library Links:
- Libraries' Catalog – to locate any item that is available in our libraries, including books, journals, newspapers, and audio/visual materials.
- Everything – the tab is a great place to start searching through the library’s resources in one simple multidisciplinary search interface. The results will display books, articles, government documents, etc.
- Journals- is a database of electronic journals that are indexed in databases or found online. (Cannot search for articles, citation is needed)
- Reserve – or Course Reserve: a collection of books or articles (pdfs) set aside at the Circulation Desk by your professor.
- Top Planning Databases - Planning research databases
- Research Tips – an online guide designed to help you perform research at the University at Buffalo’s University Libraries, includes citation help. Center for Excellence in Writing - 209 Baldy Hall
- My Account & Delivery+ – use for book renewal and interlibrary loan. Journal articles and book chapters are delivered electronically to your email and physical items are made available for pick-up at the UB library of your choice. (free of charge)
Borrowing/Loan Periods: Your UB Card serves as your library card. Current UB students, faculty and staff may use their cards to check out books and other materials at any campus library.
UB Print Anywhere: UB students receive a semesterly quota of free pages to print assignments at any of 40 print station kiosks. Learn how to easily print your assignments from any computer, a computing site, your smartphone, a USB drive and more.
Best Starting Points:
Background info:
Gale Virtual Reference Library - includes subject encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference works in broad subject areas, including issues related to planning.
Oxford Handbooks Online - a collection of Oxford Handbooks in four subject modules - Business and Management; Philosophy; Political Science; and Religion. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline and unpacks it, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda for how those debates might evolve.
Best Basic Resources Guide (created by UB Libraries)
-
Everything This link opens in a new windowincluding articles, ebooks, government documents, newspapers, and other materials available online. Refine your search to "Expand My Results" to get items UB doesn't own and use Delivery+ to obtain them.
-
Google Books This link opens in a new windowWell over 15,000,000 books and magazine issues may be searched in Google Books. The numbers grow daily as Google moves forward with its mission of scanning literally all the world's books and magazines. Even materials that are not readable full text are nonetheless searchable. Some texts (pre-1923) may be read in their entirety; while others may be read across a limited number of pages (20% of the book) in 'preview' mode and some are only viewable in snippet view.
-
Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowo Click on "Settings" in the upper right-hand corner.
o Click on "Library Links" on the left-hand side
o On the next screen, type University at Buffalo into the "Library Links" box.
o Scroll down and click on "Save"
o Start searching.
o When you link to a full-text article from off campus you will be presented with a log-in screen. Log in with your UBIT name and password.
Useful Books:
-
Encyclopedia of Community by Call Number: APL Reference: HM756 .E53 2003ISBN: 0761925988Publication Date: 2003-06-23Arranged from A-Z, an interdisciplinary format of “compare and contrast” among topics such as types of communities, social capital, technology, urban life, politics and law, community design, and global studies. -
The Planner's Use of Information by Call Number: APl Reference: HT391 .P54 2003ISBN: 1884829724Publication Date: 2003-09-01Summarizes basic methods and information resources essential to planners. Provides detailed, useful discussion of field methods of collecting information; survey methods; information from secondary sources, analytical methods; working with small groups; public participation; computers and planning; speaking skills; written communications; graphic communication; and planning in the political context. Many chapters contain applications and bibliographies. -
Planning and Urban Design Standards by Call Number: APL Circulation Desk: TH2031 .P55 2006ISBN: 0471475815Publication Date: 2006-02-03From the publishers of Architectural Graphic Standards, this book, created under the auspices of The American Planning Association, is the most comprehensive reference book on urban planning, design, and development available today. Contributions from more than two hundred renowned professionals provide rules of thumb and best practices for mitigating such environmental impacts as noise, traffic, aesthetics, preservation of green space and wildlife, water quality, and more. You get in-depth information on the tools and techniques used to achieve planning and design outcomes, including economic analysis, mapping, visualization, legal foundations, and real estate developments. Thousands of illustrations, examples of custom work by today's leading planners, and insider information make this work the new standard in the field. -
Practical Research by Call Number: APL General Book Collection: Q180.55 .M4 L43 2013ISBN: 0132693240Publication Date: 2012-01-06Written in uncommonly engaging and elegant prose, Practical Research: Planning and Design is a "do-it-yourself, understand-it-yourself" manual designed to help students in any discipline understand the fundamental structure of quality research and the methodical process that leads to valid and reliable results. The authors emphasize two things: 1) that quality research demands planning and design; and, 2) how research projects can be executed effectively and professionally. This text guides the reader, step-by-step, from the selection of a problem, through the process of conducting authentic research, to the preparation of a completed report, with practical suggestions based on a solid theoretical framework and sound pedagogy. With broad coverage applicable to any discipline, Practical Research is valuable to students planning to conduct their own research projects as well as to anyone wanting to participate in thoughtful, methodical evaluation of published research reports. -
The Routledge handbook of planning research methods by Call Number: APL General Book Collection: HT165.5 .R68 2014ISBN: 0415727952Publication Date: 2014-11-17The Routledge Handbook of Planning Research Methods is an expansive look at the traditions, methods, and challenges of research design and research projects in contemporary urban planning. Through case studies, an international group of researchers, planning practitioners, and planning academics and educators, all recognized authorities in the field, provide accounts of designing and implementing research projects from different approaches and venues. This book shows how to apply quantitative and qualitative methods to projects, and how to take your research from the classroom to the real world. The book is structured into sections focusing on Beginning planning research Research design and development Rediscovering qualitative methods New advances in quantitative methods Turning research into action With chapters written by leading scholars in spatial planning, The Routledge Handbook of Planning Research Methods is the most authoritative and comprehensive handbook on the topic, providing both established and ground breaking coverage of spatial planning research methods. The book is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and graduate level students, young professionals and practitioners in urban, regional, and spatial planning. -
RSMeans Square Foot Costs by Call Number: Health Sciences Library APL Reference and Hayes Hall Reading Room: TH435 .M44ISBN: 1943215189Publication Date: 2015-11-02Means Square Foot Costs 2016 This easy-to-use guide gives you the building components required to develop accurate assemblies-level cost estimates, evaluate trade-off costs, and verify unit price estimates. Be prepared to estimate any job with this indispensable cost reference. An accurate estimate of costs to build your particular project depends on location, project scope, specific components used and current market conditions. -
Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design by Call Number: APL: HT166 .T47 2003ISBN: 007068507XPublication Date: 2003-03-14Covers significant topics such as design issues and principles, analysis, methodology, and technical details essential for planning, as well as case studies. Also includes classic writings by the leading thinkers in urban planning and discussions of cities considered exemplars in urban planning and design. -
Urban Design Handbook by Call Number: APL: NA9105 .U73 2003ISBN: 0393731065Publication Date: 2003-01-17A guide that offers an introductory course in urbanism as well as an operations manual for architects, planners, developers, and public officials.
-
World Housing EncyclopediaThe Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the International Association for Earthquake Engineering have teamed up to create the World Housing Encyclopedia (WHE): a database that provides information about housing construction in parts of the world vulnerable to earthquakes. As of this write-up, this collection includes 130 reports, which visitors can browse via an interactive map on WHE's homepage. These reports provide details about the type of housing construction by region, along with information about the region's terrain. Visitors can also search this database by building type and by, "how long this construction type has been practiced." As the team behind WHE explains, the aim of this website is to, "encourage the use of earthquake-resistant technologies worldwide."
ArcGIS
ArcGIS Desktop allows you to create maps, perform spatial analysis, and manage data. You can import multiple data formats and use powerful analytical tools and workflows to identify spatial patterns, trends, and non-obvious relationships.
UB affiliates are eligible for a free UB ArcGIS Online account, provided by the College of Arts and Sciences.
This includes a license for ArcGIS Pro, which can be installed on personal or UB-owned computers. Additional Esri software/apps are available -- ArcGIS StoryMaps, ArcGIS Urban, ArcGIS CityEngine, ArcGIS Business Analyst, ArcGIS GeoPlanner, ArcGIS Insights, and ArcGIS Tracker.
In order to create an account, begin by completing the CASet work order form. In the section titled, "Describe the issue below", add a note requesting an invitation to join UB's ArcGIS Online organization.
Once you have an organizational account, you can download the ArcGIS Pro installer here:
https://suny-buffalo.maps.arcgis.com/home/user.html#settings
Select Licenses from the left.
Existing ArcGIS Online users can log in here: Map Gallery for University at Buffalo, College of Arts and Sciences
Statistical Information & Maps:
-
County Business Patterns (CBP)-U.S., States, and Counties tables start from 1998 to current year.
-Puerto Rico tables start from 2003 to current year.
-Island Areas tables start from 2008 to current year.
-ZIP Codes tables start from 1998 to current year.
-Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas tables start from 1998 to current year.
-Congressional District tables start from 2013 to current year.
-
Social Explorer This link opens in a new windowDemographic information about the United States including historical data back to 1790. More InfoDataUB ONLY
Librarian
Rose Orcutt
Contact:
Architecture & Planning Library
303 Abbott Hall
Buffalo, NY 14214
rmorcutt@buffalo.edu
303 Abbott Hall
Buffalo, NY 14214
rmorcutt@buffalo.edu
(716)645-1325