Urban Studies - Research Guide: Overview

A five-volume online work that provides current comprehensive coverage of major topics in urban and regional studies.

Subject articles identify significant, classic, and useful works on all aspects of urban studies.

Presents articles that are topical annotated bibliographies, including "Urban geography", "World cities", and "Edge cities and urban sprawl". Other Oxford Bibliographies will include articles on urban issues from different research orientations.

A recent update to the classic 2001 Handbook of Urban studies.

A multi-volume reference work providing a state-of-the-art knowledge on regional science and local and regional socio-economic issues comprehensively, including areas such as regional housing and labor markets, regional economic growth, innovation and regional economic development, new and evolutionary economic geography, location and interaction, the environment and natural resources, spatial analysis and geo-computation as well as spatial statistics and econometrics.

A practical manual focusing on the form, structure, and evolution of settlements: clear summaries of concepts, step-by-step instructions for analysis, and case studies.

A comprehensive study guide to the city.

Chapters focus on themes of urban dynamics and disruption confronting modern global cities.

Provides a thematic and chronological overview of American urban history from the pre-Columbian era to the present. Each article is divided into three parts: a narrative overview of the issue; a brief historiographical summary of significant writers and publications; a short introduction to essential primary sources.

Authoritative resource planning, architecture, social sciences, environmental design, business law and others.

Organizations, persons, and federal legislation that document the history of grass-roots community organizing.