Landscape Architecture and Urban Design: Guide

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Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection
Year: 1960-.
Covers: agronomy, soil science, crop management, environmental sustainability, forestry, horticulture, natural resource management.
Provided by: ProQuest
greenfile
Covers: science, environment and pollution. All aspects of human impact on the environment.
Provided by: Ebscohost
Scopus
Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with smart tools that track, analyze and visualize research. Easy to use and comprehensive,
Web of Science
Search over 9,200 core journals across the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities to find the high quality research. Move backward/forward in time using cited/citing reference identified by researchers. Updated weekly, covers Sciences 1900-present, Social Sciences 1956-present, and Arts and Humanities 1975-present.

Art, Design & Architecture Collection
Collection of several databases within art, design and architecture.
Provider: ProQuest.
Art Full Tekst (Wilson Web)
Collection of several databases within art, design and architecture.
Provider: Ebscohost
International Bibliography of Social Sciences
Covers: Anthropology, politics, economics, sociology, development studies, human geography, environment, gender studies.
PsycInfo
Covers: Psychology, psychiatry, medicine, social studies.
Google Scholar
Part of Google with academic literature.
Access to articles from Google Scholar: Settings > Library links >Search and select: The Royal Danish Library > click save.

Encyclopedias
Dictionaries

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Landscape and Urban Planning
Multilingual Reference Book in English, Spanish, French, and German. Springer Verlag, 2010.

Danske Landskabsarkitekter
The professional association for landscape architects in Denmark
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management
The institute at the University of Copenhagen where landscape architecture and urban design belong.
Københavns Universitet Centre for Strategic Urban Research
The centre's partners include a large part of the leading research institutions in Denmark within urban development and urban planning
The architecture collection
The architecture collection at the Art Library contains architectural drawings, models and photographs, architectural archives, books and journals, including some landscape architecture.
Frederiksberg Stadsarkiv (in Danish)
Frederiksberg Stadsarkiv is Frederiksberg's city history institution, which has the task of preserving and making available archival material from Frederiksberg.
Copenhagen City Archives' photographic collection (in Danish)
Historic photographic collection from Copenhagen and Frederiksberg, including the City Engineer's photos - the so-called TMF collection.
Arkiv.dk (In Danish)
In arkiv.dk you search in material stored in more than 580 Danish local and city archives as well as a smaller number of special collections.
Library for Architecture, Design, Conservation and Performing Arts
The Royal Academy - Architecture, Design and Conservation. Public Research Library.
Copenhagen landscape lectures
Organized by the research group for Landscape Architecture and Urbanism and is a series of lectures open to everyone across city, country, education and practice who are interested in how we shape our surroundings.

Danmark set fra luften
The Royal The library's collection of over 2 million aerial photographs from the 1930s onwards.
Fredninger i Danmark (in Danish)
Here you can search for protected areas in Denmark.
Danish Geodata Agency
has the task of making maps and geodata an everyday tool for the public sector, companies and citizens.
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Data and maps from the National Geological Surveys for Denmark and Greenland
The Agency for Data Supply and Infrastructure - Historical maps
Approx. 100,000 scanned maps of both current and former Danish areas as well as some other historical maps. The maps are from the 17th century and up to approx. year 2000
The Royal Library's map collection
Digital collection of historical maps and atlases from the Royal library
Open data
Exempt datasets from all over Denmark on one nationwide portal.
Planinfo (in Danish)
Is under the Danish Business Authority and contains plans according to the Planning Act and ensures that all plan data is standardized and made available to everyone.
Arealinformation
Is part of Denmark's Environment Portal and has a wide selection of environmental data that is displayed on maps.
Copenhagen Data
Contains a number of data sets from Copenhagen Municipality, e.g. urban nature, parking conditions, traffic, the city's physical infrastructure, ground map, water consumption and water quality, etc.

Find a reaseacher
Find a researcher or research publications from the University of Copenhagen.
Research Portal Denmark
The only comprehensive source for Danish research from, among others, all the Danish universities, some of the public organizations and private companies. The database contains articles, books, conference contributions and, for example, reports.
Architecture, Design and Conservation
The database provides an overview of research and artistic development activities from the Royal Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation Design, the Kolding School of Design and the Aarhus School of Architecture.
Student projects at the University of Copenhagen
Find published theses, master's theses, bachelor's projects and semester assignments from KU, AU and RUC.
Nature, health and design
A research group from the Department of Geosciences and Management that works with research, development and learning within health design and nature-based treatment
Forest & Landscape Denmark
A national center for research, education and consultancy within forests and forest products, landscape architecture and landscape management, urban planning and urban design.
Københavns Universitet Centre for Strategic Urban Research
Organized by the research group for Landscape Architecture and Urbanism and is a series of lectures open to everyone across city, country, education and practice who are interested in how we shape our surroundings.
Copenhagen landscape lectures
Organized by the research group for Landscape Architecture and Urbanism and is a series of lectures open to everyone across city, country, education and practice who are interested in how we shape our surroundings.

Garden drawings

Landscape architecture and garden drawings from KVL
Copenhagen University Library Frederiksberg has an unique collection of drawings by influential Danish landscape architects. The collection stretches from the end of the 1800s and through the 20th century to today.

E-journals

JoLa - Journal of Landscape Architecture
Journal of the European Council of Landscape Architecture School (ECLAS).
Year: 2006, vol. 1 -
Journal of Urban Design
Year: 1996, vol. 1 -
Landscape and Urban Planning
Year: 1986, vol. 13 -
Landscape Issues
The research journal of the Landscape Architecture course at the University of Gloucestershire. Year: 1984, vol. 1 -
Landscape Journal: design, planning and management of the land
Year: 2011, vol. 30 -
Landscape Research
Journal of the Landscape Research Group.
Year: 1997, vol. 22 -
Magasinet Landskab
The journal of The Association of Danish Landscape Architects (DL)
Year: 1920 to 2017
Urban Design International
Year: 2000, vol. 5 - 2012, vol. 17.

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