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Planning and Urban Design: Books and e-books

Discovery

Library Discovery Search

Search includes books, journal articles and e-resources

Where are the Planning and Urgan Design books?

Reading Lists

undefined Your reading list should be the first place you go to look for books. They can be found on your Moodle module sites. You can search the Reading Lists database here
From here you can access the library catalogue to see if the book is available.  If it is available as an e-book, you can access the online version here too.  undefined

 

The Library catalogue

If you are searching for a particular book, type in the author's surname and a few words from the title.  Note: the search box will not recognise abbreviations or punctuation.  If you are searching for books around a particular subject, eg. urban regeneration, type these keywords into the search box.

The catalogue record for each title will give you the Class Number of the book, how long you can borrow it for, and whether it is Available (ie. on the shelf).  Use the library map to find the correct floor.  The books are arranged in numerical order. Signs at the end of each bay of books let you know the class number range for that bay.

You can search for e-books in the library catalogue

Below are a selection of Planning and Urban Design e-books

Key shelf mark numbers for Planning and Urban Design

Books about the same subject are assigned the same shelf mark (or class number or class mark or shelf mark or call number) number.  You'll find the number on the spine of each book. 

307.1216   Urban design

307.76   City planning

333.338   Housing reviews

346.043   Housing law

363.50941   Social housing

711.4   Urban design and architecture

Study Skills for Planning and Urban Design

You can find many books on academic writing, writing for essays, dissertations, research etc. in the library.  Here are a few to get you started.

EBSCO ebooks Academic Collection

E-books

Ebook database where you can read ebooks online, download titles, and print page ranges from the thousands of ebooks available.

(Once you've clicked on the above link, click on to get into the database)

Find Your Way

Find Zone C 

Books 005.73 - 331.78

The hyperlapse video below shows you how to get from the entrance of the LSBU Hub building to the main Planning and Urban Design collection in Zone C on Level 03.