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City & Regional Planning

This is a guide to finding selected City & Regional Planning resources. For in-depth assistance, please contact the subject specialist, or Ask a Librarian. City & Regional Planning Librarian Subject Specialist:
 Matt Cook
 email: cookm@iit.edu
 phone: 312.567.3267

Use these resources to find journal articles, e-books, conference proceedings, book reviews, and more.

IIT Access Only = Restricted to IIT students, faculty, and staff.
Highly recommended = Highly recommended

Highly recommended Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals IIT Access Only
"Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, published by the Getty Research Institute, is the only comprehensive American guide to the current literature of architecture and design. Avery's editorial office is at Columbia University, New York, NY. This database surveys more than 2,500 US and foreign journals. The index covers international, scholarly and popular periodical literature, including publications of professional associations; US state and regional periodicals; and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia. In addition, this database also provides nearly 13,000 citation records for architects' obituaries."

Dissertations and Theses IIT Access Only
Online database of doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Full-text is available for many items, and ordering/purchasing information is included for those items with no full-text.

JSTOR IIT Access Only
JSTOR (Journal STORage) is an archive of important scholarly journals in a variety of subject related to the humanities, physical sciences, and social sciences. Articles are scanned and viewable as exact duplicates from the original copy of the journal. JSTOR is not the place to search for the most current research, but overall is an excellent multidisciplinary database containing articles from many essential peer-reviewed sources. Subjects covered include Anthropology, Architecture, Biology, Business, Economics, Education, History, Language & Literature, Law, Mathematics, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy & Administration, Religion, Sociology, and Statistics.

Project Muse IIT Access Only
This database offers a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities, arts, and social sciences journals. Every journal is indexed and peer-reviewed. Project MUSE contains articles scanned as exact replicas in pdf format.