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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 pages
- New! Aging and the City
- New! SPSS Resources videos, books, discussion forum and more
- Urban Transportation
- Urban Bylaws, Legislation and Planning Resources
New Urban Studies books
- Financing infrastructure : who should pay?
- Dark ghettos : injustice, dissent, and reform
- Rethinking creative cities policy : invisible agents and hidden protagonists
- Conway urban watershed framework plan
- Faster, smarter, greener : the future of the car and urban mobility
- Baltimore : a political history
- Infinite suburbia
- Care and design : bodies, buildings, cities
- No Boston Olympics : how and why smart cities are passing on the torch
- Introduction to transport policy : a public policy view
- The largest art : a measured manifesto for a plural urbanism
- How cycling can save the world
- Connecting places, connecting people : a paradigm for urban living in the 21st century
- Water index : design strategies for drought, flooding and contamination
- City
- The Ancient City
- Designing San Francisco : art, land, and urban renewal in the City by the Bay
- Gender, ageing and longer working life : cross-national perspectives
- Financing infrastructure : who should pay?
- Smart urban regeneration : visions, institutions and mechanisms for real estate
- Public Spaces : Times of Crisis and Change.
- Communicating water's value stormwater, wasterwater & watersheds
- America's addiction to automobiles : why cities need to kick the habit and how
- COHOUSING INCLUSIVE.
- The sustainable city
- The fight for fair housing : causes, consequences and future implications of the 1968 Federal Fair Housing act
- Waste is information : infrastructure legibility and governance
- Digital and smart cities
- Regent Park redux : reinventing public housing in Canada
- Cities, Economic Inequality and Justice : Reflections and Alternative Perspectives