Environmental Design Library @ UC Berkeley

International Planning

International Planning is a bibliographic research guide to UC Berkeley library and web resources on international city and regional planning, with an emphasis on developing countries. For assistance please consult the Reference staff of the Environmental Design Library, 210 Wurster Hall.

UC Berkeley faculty, registered students, and staff who are off campus may use items marked UCB Only or UC Only by using The Library's off-campus access services.

Compiled by Deborah Sommer, City Planning & Landscape Architecture Librarian, Environmental Design Library

Content reviewed: June 2010

Gateways

• ELDIS A gateway to information on development issues, providing country profiles, summaries and links to online documents. Offers a directory of websites, databases, library catalogs, and e-mail discussion lists.
http://www.eldis.org/
• PRAXIS: Resources for social and economic development (Univ. of Pennsylvania) Richard J. Estes, comp. Wide-ranging directory of links to topical and country-specific resources broadly focussed on international social and economic development.
http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/~restes/praxis.html
• WWW Virtual library: international affairs resources (Elizabethtown College) An excellent site for locating international and development information. Included are links to international intergovernmental organizations, academic institutions, the texts of primary source documents, and substantial area studies entry pages. Includes links to non-English web search engines.
http://www.etown.edu/vl

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Atlases

For online non-English dictionaries and translating dictionaries, see The Library's website: Go to Electronic Resources → Electronic Resources: Types → Dictionaries, Thesauri & Quotations. Visit the Doe Library Reference Center (2nd floor, Doe Library) for additional general country-specific information and region-specific encyclopedias.

• Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: a historical encyclopedia, Michael R.T. Dumper and Bruce E. Stanley, eds. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007. Online table of contents.
EnvDesign HT147.5 C574 2007 Reference
• Encyclopedia of the Third World, by George Thomas Kurian. NY: Facts on File, 4th ed. 1992. Includes substantial readable articles on more than 100 Third World countries.
EnvDesignHC59.7 K87 1992 Reference
• International planning glossaries. Gordon Logie, ed. NY: Elsevier: International Planning Glossaries. 4 vols. In English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Swedish, Finnish.
Glossary of land resources. EnvDesign HD107.7 L63 1984 Reference
Glossary of planning and development. EnvDesign HT391 L641 1986 Reference
Glossary of population and housing. EnvDesign HD7287.5 L63 Reference, HC15 I571 1975 v.1:3, 2:3 Reference
Transport. EnvDesign HC15 I571 1975 v. 3:1-3:3, 3:5 Reference; Busi & Econ HE141 L63 Reference
• Metropolitan world atlas, by Arjen van Susteren. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2005.
EnvDesign G1028 S8 2005 Reference Desk
• Multilingual glossary of human settlements terms. Nairobi: UN Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), 1992. Includes English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish human settlements terms. Includes English definitions.
EnvDesign HT65 M85 1992 Reference

Bibliographies

To locate bibliographies on specific places in the Melvyl catalog, use any of the following strategies: subject: [name of place] bibliography; subject: regional planning [name of place] bibliography; or, subject: [name of place] population bibliography. Here are a few examples of the kinds of bibliographies you can find in the library or online.

• Ciudades Latinoamericanas. Madrid: Centro de Informacion y Documentacion Cientifica, 1998. Topics include pre-Columbian and colonial cities, housing, and urbanism. Covers journal articles, books, papers published mid-1980s through the 1990s. Spanish.
Main HT127.5 C625 1998
• International Organizations, Economic Development & Poverty (UC Berkeley, Library) A bibliographic research guide to many government sources of development information. Includes individual country and regional resources on economic and political development issues world-wide.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/intl/gov_devgde.html
• Housing in developing countries: a select bibliography and field statement, by Ayse Pamuk. Chicago: Council of Planning Librarians, 1991.
EnvDesign HT166 A12 C6a no.273 Index
• Regional development plans, programmes, and projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: an annotated bibliography, by Devoira Auerbach, Waltraud Mirthes. Giessen: Centre for Regional Development Research, Justus-Liebig-Univ. Giessen, 1986.
  Main HT395 A3 A12 A941 1986; S-S/EAsia HT395.A3 A12 A941 1986 Reference
• Squatter settlements in developing countries: a bibliography. Barbara Buick, comp. Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National Univ., 1975. Approximately 2000 citations to journal articles, theses, books, etc.
EnvDesign HD7287 A12B8 noncirc.
• Town planning and town development in Middle East, Jorg Sierig, ed., Stuttgart: Informationszentrum Raum u. Bau d. Fraunhofer-Ges., [1991]. (ICONDA-bibliography, no. 119)
  EnvDesign HT169 M627 T69 1991

Finding Books

Here are some useful subject headings for searching the library catalogs. Most of these headings can be modified by the addition of the name of a country or region (e.g., economic development bangladesh or rural development latin america) or by the phrases developing countries or case studies (e.g., urbanization developing countries).

Cities and towns -- [place name]
City planning -- [place name]
City planning -- developing countries
Developing countries [see many subdivisions]
Development plans
Economic development -- [place name]
Environmental policy
Health planning -- [name of country]
Health policy -- [name of country]
Housing policy -- [name of country]
Housing policy -- developing countries
Human settlements

Informal sector (economics)
Information technology
Non-governmental organizations
Population -- developing countries
Regional planning -- [place name]
Rural development
Sustainable development -- [place name]
Urban transportation -- developing countries
Water quality management
Women in development
Urban development
Urbanization

Finding Journal Articles

Consult City Planning Indexes & Abstracts for additional planning indexes. For UCB Only or UC Only journal indexes, go to The Library's website; go to Find Information → Articles.

• Alternative press index and archive via FirstSearch/OCLC - UCB Only Citations are drawn from roughly 450 alternative, radical, and left publications. Useful for identifying community-based and alternative public policy perspectives on housing, land use, the environment, etc., outside of the mainstream. Most journals aren't indexed elsewhere.
Online ed.: Archive (1969-1990), Index (1991--); paper ed.: 1969--; Doe Stack HM101 A12 A55
• Anthropology plus via FirstSearch/OCLC - UC Only Contains citations to articles and essays in the fields of anthropology and archaeology. Subjects covered include landscape history, ethnohistory, geography, folklore, and history. Useful subject terms include: cities and towns [name of place]; and, land settlement patterns [name of place].
Coverage: late 19th century--.
• CAB abstracts via SilverPlatter - UCB Only Covers a broad range of agricultural topics including landscape ecology, rural development and related topics. Corresponds to the 50 printed abstract journals published by CABI and includes records from 10,000+ journals, plus books, conferences, theses, technical reports, patents, and other sources from 100+ countries. Articles are drawn from 75+ languages; most records have English language abstracts.
Coverage: 1972--.
• CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) - UCB Only Indexes journals, books, policy briefs, working papers, and conference proceedings from research institutes worldwide related to international affairs analysis and advocacy materials. Also includes links to international affairs Internet sources.
Coverage: 1991--.
• EconLit via CSA - UCB Only Indexes economics articles in scholarly journals and in collective works (books consisting of collections of essays or individual papers), dissertations, and books. Includes extensive abstracts.
Coverage: 1969--.
• Geography via SilverPlatter - UCB Only Covers the international literature in physical and human geography. Indexes 2000+ journals, monographs, books, conference proceedings reports, and theses. Online equivalent of International development abstracts, 1982-- and Geographical abstracts, 1972--.
Coverage: 1990--.
• Global health via EBSCO - UCB Only Indexes over 5,000 journals, books, reports, conference proceedings, theses, and electronic only publications. Topics include environmental and public health, and more.
Coverage: 1973--.
• Historical abstracts via EBSCO - UCB Only Contains abstracts of articles and bibliographical citations of books and dissertations on all branches of world history, except the U.S. and Canada, from l450 to the present.
Online ed.: 1954--; paper ed.: coverage varies; Main/Reference D299 H5712 & D410 H55
• IBSS extra (International bibliography of the Social Sciences) via CSA - UCB Only Contains citations from an international selection of publications (including over 2600 journals) in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
Coverage: 1981--.
• JSTOR - UCB Only A full text archive of interdisciplinary scholarly journals from their first issue. Includes Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies journals.
Coverage: Varies.
• Lexis-Nexis academic - UCB Only Includes indexing to journals and newspapers and provides full text.
Coverage: Varies.
• PAIS international & PAIS archive via CSA - UCB Only Indexes international books, government publications, reports of public & private agencies, and journal articles, relating to business, economic & social conditions, public administration, etc., published in English.
Online ed.: l972--, PAIS international and 1937-1976, PAIS archive; paper ed.: 1954-1995; Main & Busi/Econ H106 P7
• Sociological abstracts via CSA - UCB Only Indexes journal articles, book chapters, & reviews from over 1,900 journals, books, book chapters, and reviews in the social sciences. Excellent source for public policy topics.
Online ed.: 1963--; paper ed.: 1952--; Main HM15.5 S6
• Women's studies international - UCB Only Consists of ten women's studies databases including Women's Studies Abstracts and the Women's Studies Database. Indexes articles, books, media, etc. Coverage: 1972--.
http://uclibs.org/PID/16677
• Worldwide political science abstracts via CSA - UCB Only Indexes books, journals, and dissertations within the field of political science and related to international relations, law and politics, political economy, public administration, and public policy. Some full text.
Coverage: 1975--.

• African Studies (UC Berkeley, Library). Lists article databases and indexes with a focus on Africa. Many of these databases include full text content.
• Current bibliography on African affairs. [Farmingdale, NY] Baywood Pub. Co. Brief annotations to journal articles on Africa. Topics include housing & shelter, economic development, regional development, and rural & urban studies. Coverage: 1962--.
Main DT3 A12C8 latest 10 vols in Doe Reference

• Asian bibliography. UN, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Library. 1952--; semi-annual. Indexes monographs, annual publications, and selected articles relating to socioeconomic development in Asia and the Pacific. Emphasis on publications from international organizations. Topics include environment, human settlements, physical planning, and rural development.
S/SE Asia JX1977 A62 A8
• Electronic resources by region. (UC Berkeley, Library). These directories list article databases and indexes with a geographical focus on an Asian region. Many of these databases include full text content.
East Asian studies
South Asian studies
Southeast Asian studies

• Electronic resources by region. (UC Berkeley, Library). These directories list article databases and indexes with a geographical focus on Eastern Europe. Many of these databases include full text content.
Slavic and East European studies
Soviet and Post-Soviet studies

• Latin American studies (UC Berkeley, Library). Lists article databases and indexes with a focus on Latin America. Many of these databases include full text content.

• Electronic resources by region. (UC Berkeley, Library). These directories list article databases and indexes with a geographical focus on the Middle East region. Many of these databases include full text content.
Jewish studies
Middle Eastern studies

News Media

In addition to the indexes listed here, see The Library's website; go to Electronic Resources → Electronic Resources: Types → News Databases for a list of links to online full text local and international newspapers.

• Access world news via NewsBank - UCB Only Full text database of articles from more than 1,800 newspapers and other news media.
Coverage: 1977--.
• allAfrica.com - UCB Only Contains over 700,000 articles from 120 news publications throughout Africa. Also includes press releases and documents from 200 governments and non-governmental organizations in and outside of Africa. 30% of articles are in French.
Coverage: 1997--.
• AltPress watch via ProQuest - UCB Only A full text resource that covers newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press. Good for environmental justice and environmental policy issues.
Coverage: 1995--.
• Factiva - UCB Only General and business news and information from more than 9,000 sources, including newswires.
Online coverage: Varies
• Foreign broadcast information service via NewsBank - UCB Only An index to the FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. government covering political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events throughout the world. Comprises full text translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world. Continued by World news connection.
Coverage: 1975-1996.
• Inkternational news links (Flying Inkpot) Database of links to international newspapers, organized by region.
http://www.inkpot.com/news/
• LADB (Latin America data base) - UCB Only An online news service that provides access to three weekly electronic news bulletins about Mexico (SourceMex), Central America and the Caribbean including Cuba (NotiCen) and South America (NotiSur). LADB is also a searchable archive of over 24,000 articles. Some full text articles are available.
Coverage: 1986--.
• Lexis-Nexis academic - UCB Only Includes indexing to journals and newspapers and provides full text.
Coverage: Varies.
• World news connection - UCB Only Full text translated transcriptions and summaries of radio and television broadcasts, newspaper articles, conference proceedings, periodicals and non-classified technical reports, representing nearly every country in the world. Continues the Foreign broadcast information service.
Online coverage: 1996--; paper index: Govt Reference D839 U64; earlier ed. on microfiche.

Statistics & Data

• Statistics & data for planning: international (UC Berkeley Library) An extensive directory of paper and full text web international statistics and data sources.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/planning_statistics_international.html

Housing

• Housing research resources (UC Berkeley, Library) A bibliographic research guide to international and U.S. housing research, including housing statistics resources.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/research_housing.html
• Housing policies in the Socialist Third World, Kosta Mathey, ed. NY: Mansell, 1990. Organized in individual chapters on the housing policies of 13 countries, Albania through Vietnam.
EnvDesign HD7391 H675 1990
• International Federation for Housing and Planning. International Congress--Proceedings The IFHP sponsors an annual international congress. The papers presented are often about housing policies in a particular country. These proceedings can be awkward to identify; try searching the catalogs by the corporate name International federation for housing and planning.
• International handbook of housing policies and practices, Willem van Vliet, ed., NY: Greenwood Press, 1990. A useful compendium of housing policies of 23 countries.
EnvDesign HD7287 I523 1990 Reference & circulating

Selected Regional Sources

See also Libraries & collections a-z for additional national and regional directories of web links and print sources.

• AccessUN via NewsBank - UCB Only Provides access to current and retrospective UN documents and publications.
Online index: 1984--; microfiche text: Govt Reference Microfiche 10982
Paper ed.: 1946--; Govt Reference JX1977 A1 R43
• AccessUNDP via NewsBank - UCB Only Indexes United Nations Development Programme reports.
Online index: 1972-1998; microfiche text: Govt Reference Microfiche 10982
• A.I.D. research and development abstracts. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Agency for International Development, 1974-1993.
Govt Reference HC60 A1A2 Indexes
• Background notes (U.S. Dept. of State) Provide information on geographic entities and international organizations and are updated periodically. Background Notes for some countries are currently unavailable.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
• Country studies (U.S. Library of Congress) The Country Studies Series presents descriptions and analyses of the historical setting and the social, economic, and political systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. Full text studies on the web. Earlier paper editions are listed in the catalog as Area Handbook for....
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
• Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) country reports and profiles - UCB Only These narrative and statistical studies provide objective and timely analysis and forecasts of the political, economic, and business environment in more than 180 countries. Annual profiles are updated by quarterly reports.
Online ed.: 1996--; paper ed.: 1986/87--; Bus/Econ call numbers vary
• World Bank e-library - UCB Only Searchable, full text database of more than 3,000 World Bank publications.
http://puck.worldbank.catchword.org/vl=440548/cl=21/nw=1/rpsv/home.htm

• Africa web links: an annotated resource list © (Univ. of Pennsylvannia, African Studies Center)
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Home_Page/WWW_Links.html
• Caribbean Community (Caribbean Community and Common Market) Well-organized links to Caribbean, Latin American, and related web sites.
http://www.caricom.org/
• Digital South Asia library (Center for Research Libraries) Includes bibliographies, electronic books, statistics, maps, etc.
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/
• Economic and social commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) (UN)
http://www.escwa.un.org/index.asp
• The Index on Africa (Norwegian Council for Africa) Includes more than 2000 links to web sites on a broad range of topics including useful Reference sites, development, and the environment. http://afrika.no/index/
• Internet resources for Latin America (New Mexico State Univ. Library, Las Cruces) Molly Molloy, comp. Excellent site.
http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/
• LANIC: Latin American network information center (Univ. of Texas, Austin) Comprehensive coverage of Latin American Internet resources. Includes country-by-country list and pointers to regional international organizations.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
• Network on urban research in the European Union (NUREC) A non-profit association of institutional organizations and individual members.
http://www.nurec.net/
• Outreach Word: Middle East Resources
http://www.outreachworld.org/searchresources.asp?GlobalRegionID=28
• REENIC: Russian and East European network information center (Univ. of Texas, Austin)
http://www.nurec.net/

City Information

Many of the regional resources listed in this guide also include city-specific information.

• Cities via Science Direct - UC Only International journal. Each issue contains a substantive "City Profile." Indexed in ScienceDirect and PAIS.
  Online ed.: 1983--; paper ed.: 1983--; EnvDesign HT165.53 G7 C5
• Cities of the world: a compilation of current information on cultural, geographical, and political conditions in the countries and cities of six continents, based on the Department of State's "Post reports." Detroit: Gale Research Co. 4 volumes.
Doe Reference G153.4 C57 latest ed.
• Encyclopedia of world cities, by Immanuel Ness. 2 vols. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999. Includes articles on 132 leading cities. Statistical categories include: location & environment; population & demography; economy; transportation; comunications; housing; health; and education.
EnvDesign HT108.5 N47 1999 Reference
• Metropolis: the world network of metropolises An international association of 77 global cities. Includes many links to city web sites. In English, Spanish, and French.
http://www.metropolis.org/
• The State of the world's cities 2004/05, Nairobi: UN Habitat, 2004. Trend analysis for metropolitan areas. Limited information on individual cities. Extensive bibliography: pp.184-191.
EnvDesign HT101 S73 Reference & circ.; Doe Reference Govt/Stat
• World heritage list (UNESCO)
Directory of 730 World Heritage sites, including cities; site includes descriptions, images, links. http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31
• World's city profiles (UN Global Urban Observatory) In addition to basic background information, each profile includes information on housing, economic development, etc. Note that profiles are unavailable for many of the listed countries and cities.
http://ww2.unhabitat.org/programmes/guo/guo_cityprofiles.asp

Organizations & Directories

• Union of International Associations A well-organized, comprehensive web directory of intergovernmental, non-governmental, and other international organizations. Site includes extensive searchable databases of international associations, biographies, and data.
http://www.diversitas.org/db/x.php

• General foreign government resources (UC Berkeley, Library) Includes many useful links.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/foreign/gov_forgen.html
• Governments on the WWW, Gunnar Anziner. Well-organized by region.
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/

• European Union Internet resources (UCB Library)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/intl/gov_eu.html
• International governmental organizations (Northwestern Univ. Library, Government Publications & Maps)
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/igo.html
• Multilateral development banks
African Development Bank http://www.afdb.org/
Asian Development Bank http://www.adb.org/
Caribbean Development Bank http://www.caribank.org/
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development http://www.ebrd.com/
Interamerican Development Bank http://www.iadb.org/
North American Development Bank http://www.nadb.org/
• Selected IGOs
Association of Caribbean States http://www.acs-aec.org/
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) http://www.aseansec.org/
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) http://www.oecd.org/
Organization of American States (OAS) http://www.oas.org/
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) http://www.spc.int/corp/
South Centre: an organization of dev. countries http://www.southcentre.org/
United Nations system of organizations http://www.ungm.org/Info/Organization.aspx
-----. UN Center for Human Settlements (Habitat)
-----. UN Development Programme
-----. UN Environment Programme
World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/
World Conservation Union http://www.iucn.org/
World Tourism Organization http://www.world-tourism.org/

• International planning organizations. Richard B. Stephens, ed. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2005. Lists national and multinational planning organizations.
EnvDesign HD87.25 I57 2005 Reference Desk
• Selected IPOs:
Asian Planning Schools Association http://www.hku.hk/cupem/apsa/
Association of European Schools of Planning http://www.aesop-planning.com/
European Council of Spatial Planners http://www.ceu-ectp.eu
International Federation for Housing and Planning http://www.ifhp.org/
The International Society of City and Regional Planners Paper directory, 1992--, EnvDesign HT166 I583 Reference http://www.isocarp.org/
PlaNet: Student Planning Network Consists of local groups in 15 different European cities. http://www.planningnetwork.org
Regional Science Association International Oversees three major superregional organizations. http://www.regionalscience.org/

Campus Libraries

• Business Library
• Doe Reference Center
• East Asian Library (vernacular languages)
• Environmental Design Library
• South/Southeast Asia Library (vernacular languages)

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