Urban Green
A library resource guide for finding materials on sustainable urban planning.
Welcome to the library resource guide for Urban Green! Here you will find a list of resources to help with your background research as well as tips and hints for searching and evaluating resources beyond the library.
Finding articles in scholarly and popular sources using Discovery Search
This video provides information on how to use Discovery Search to locate scholarly and popular articles in the library collection. It gives some tips on how to narrow your search in order to focus on resources relevant to your topic or thesis.
Finding books using Discovery Search
1. Use the default Discovery search box to enter terms you'd like to search. This will search ALL SLU library holdings. We'll narrow the results down to books in the next step.
2. On the screen showing the results of your search, click the box next to "SLU Library Catalog Only" to narrow the list to books. Note that the list will include physical as well as e-books. If you'd like to further narrow the list down to physical books, click the box for "Print Books Only." You may also narrow the list to only e-books by scrolling down to "Limit by Source Type"
Links to sustainable design and urban planning resources
US General Service Administration - This site includes information on sustainable design and provides links to some of the legislation around sustainable building practices in the United States.
Urban Development - This is a reference source from CREDO Environmental e-Reference. This page can help put urban planning and development into context with other topics such as urban sprawl and landscape architecture. There are numerous reference articles on various topics.
Sustainable Cities and Societies - an international journal focusing on fundamental and applied research aimed at designing, understanding, and promoting environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. We encourage submission of cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research.
