Background Information
- Encyclopedia of Urban StudiesCovers all aspects of cities, their suburbs, and other urban areas. Includes urban economics, urban planning, urban architecture, urban ecology, urban transportation systems, urban politics, and urban social relations.
- American Fact FinderFind demographic information for US cities. Search "Geographies" for Metro Statistical Area/Micro Statistical Area or CSA. Choose a "Topic" for which you would like information.
- Urban Development Data from the World Bank
- World Urbanization Prospects, 2011 Revision HighlightsPublished by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division in April 2012
- Countries and their CulturesFocuses on the cultures of countries around the world. Published in 2001 so some information is not up-to-date.
- CIA World FactbookFor more up-to-date basic information on specific countries
What is in this guide?
This guide points to important sources of reliable information that will be useful in completing the research assignment for Urban Anthropology.
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Relevant Databases
- Articles+Search multiple library search engines at one time. Limit to scholarly items, journal articles, by date range.
- Google ScholarFind scholarly books and articles.
- Academic Search CompleteJournals and magazines covering many topics in social science and humanties
- Web of ScienceFind links to articles in the social sciences. Often includes a paper's references and also lists who has cited a paper.
- AnthroSourceSearch publications of the American Anthropological Association
- Anthropology PlusLink to journal articles, reports, commentaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore; and material culture.
- International Bibliography of the Social SciencesSearch for articles in the fields of Anthropology, Economics,
Political Science, and Sociology - History SearchSearch for articles about the history of the world
- Sociological AbstractsFind articles on the sociological aspects of urbanization and urban life
- PAISFind articles on public policy, social policy, and the social sciences
Specific Journals
- City and SocietyThe journal of the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology, promotes debate and conceptual development in urban, national, and transnational anthropology, particularly in their interrelationships.
- International Journal of Urban and Regional ResearchFocuses on urban and regional research
- City, Culture, and SocietyPublishes research on cities and fosters the sort of urban administration that has the vision and authority to reinvent cities adapted to the challenges of the 21st century
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