Research Guides: PADM 689: Capstone Projects, Spring 2025: Chesterfield County Planning Project

Finding Articles and Research Reports

Search the following databases for topics like:

"community engagement"

'community involvement"

"community consultation"

Hang words together into phrases by using the words surrounded by "quotes ". In the databases Academic Search Complete & Communication and Mass Media, use "city planning" or "urban planning" or "municipal planning" in the top box and "community engagement" in the middle box.

Alternative terms: "development planning", "strategic planning"

Urban Studies Abstracts
Citations and summaries to journal articles covering trends in urbanization, urban affairs, community development, urban history, housing and real estate, and architecture and urban design.
Academic Search Complete
Multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and full-text access for thousands of peer-reviewed journals and periodicals, among other materials. Covers science, social sciences, mathematics, engineering, and many other subjects.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Communication studies database with full-text, indexing, and abstracts for many top communication journals covering all related disciplines, including media studies, linguistics, rhetoric, and discourse.