City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library
203 Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gregory Drive
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

What's New

CPLA Library Closing!!

May 7                                                      The City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library will close its doors at 203 Mumford Hall for the last time on Friday, May 9th.  The library has existed in its present location for more than 80 years.  Beginning later this summer, the City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library will merge with the Funk/ACES Library located at located at 1101 South Goodwin.  Read Full Announcement. 

March 12                                                 The February Book List for the City Planning Landscape Architecture Library is now available online.

November 12                                           Terry Moore, Vice President and Senior Planner at ECONorthwest, will be on campus Monday, November 12th to give the Wetmore Lecture.  The lecture entitled: A Framework for Public Policy, will take place from 11:30 am-1:00 pm in Room 225 Temple Buell Hall.  See full description.

November 1                                            The Department of Landscape Architecture will host a seminar on Cultural Heritage Conservation in South Asia.  The seminar will be from 2pm-5pm in the Illini Union on Thursday, November 1st.  See full description.

December 19                                           The City Planning and Landscape Architecture Library is pleased to announce that Joe Zumalt has been appointed Interim Head.  Professor Zumalt has served since May 2002 as Assistant ACES Librarian. Read Full Announcement. 

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Databases                                                                                 

AGRICOLA
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Ebsco Academic Search Premier
Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index
Index to Current Urban Documents
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Urban Studies Abstracts
Web of Science

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Electronic Journals
Journal of the American Planning Association
Ecumene: a Journal of Environment, Culture, Meaning
Environment and Planning A
Environment and Planning C
Environmental Management
Journal of Planning Literature
Planning
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Special Collections
Robert B. Teska Collection
Edward Banfield Collection
Evert Kincaid Collection
Illinois Planning Documents
Lake Michigan Project
APA Award Winning Plans                                                                   Illinois Awards
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