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This subject guide identifies selected print and electronic sources available to SFU students, faculty and staff for Urban Studies research.
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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.
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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 Transportation
- Urban Bylaws, Legislation and Planning Resources
- See also: SPSS Resources videos, books, discussion forum and more
New Urban Studies books
- More from less : the surprising story of how we learned to prosper using fewer resources--and what happens next
- Sustainability, Conservation and Creativity Ethnographic Learning from Small-Scale Practices.
- Common spaces of urban emancipation
- Automatic for the city : designing for people in the age of the driverless car
- The right to squat the city : squatters, housing struggles and urban politics
- A state beyond the state : Shenzhen and the transformation of urban China
- Regenerative urban development, climate change and the common good
- URBAN DESIGN : the composition of complexity.
- From vehicles to grid to electric vehicles to green grid : many a little makes a miracle
- Neighbourhood planning : place, space and politics
- Urban transport XXV
- The city in China : new perspectives on contemporary urbanism
- The planner's use of information
- City builder. The architecture of James K.M. Cheng.
- Housing for degrowth : principles, models, challenges and opportunities
- Bike share
- Shared housing, shared lives : everyday experiences across the lifecourse
- The Inside Track: Why Transport Matters and How We Can Make It Better
- URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA UNDER THE INSTITUTION OF LAND RIGHTS
- Greening affordable housing : an interactive approach
- Porocity : opening up solidity
- Walkable cities : revitalization, vibrancy and sustainable consumption across the Atlantic ocean