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This subject guide identifies selected print and electronic sources available to SFU students, faculty and staff for Urban Studies research.
Contact info
If you need help, please contact Nina Smart, Liaison Librarian, at 778.782.5043, nsmart@sfu.ca (Monday to Thursday ), or Book an appointment, See also Ask a librarian if Nina is not available or you have a general question.
Services for Urban Studies students
Research assistance for the Urban Studies Program is centred at Belzberg Library at SFU Vancouver's Harbour Centre.
SFU Libraries provides extensive services for graduate students. Check out the SFU Library Research Commons to learn about upcoming workshops, writing services, and more.
Help with course assignments
- Urban Transportation URB 660
- Urban Housing Policy URB 665
- Urban Research Methods URB 670
- Seminar in Urban Studies URB 696
Topic and related pages
- Aging and the City
- Car-Free & Car-Light Areas in Cities wiki created for BUS 360
- Urban Energy Futures page created for Dialogue semester
- Urban Bylaws, Legislation and Planning Resources
- See also: SPSS Resources videos, books, discussion forum and more
New Urban Studies books
- Parking : an international perspective
- Sharing mobilities : questioning our right to the city in the collaborative economy
- Smart city in India : urban laboratory, paradigm or trajectory?
- Copenhagenize : the definitive guide to global bicycle urbanism
- The divided city : poverty and prosperity in urban America
- Urban connections in the contemporary pedestrian landscape
- Social Ecology and the Right to the City: Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities
- Designing for cycle traffic : international principles and practice
- Future Challenges of Cities in Asia.
- A Chinese melting pot : original people and immigrants in Hong Kong's first 'new town'
- Being modern in China : a Western cultural analysis of modernity, tradition and schooling in China today
- Sustainable cities reimagined : multidimensional assessment and smart solutions
- Better buses, better cities : how to plan, run, and win the fight for effective transit