Boston Architecture and Urbanism: Home

• Tufts African American Freedom Trail Project
• Boston Landmarks Commission
• Boston Society of Architects
• City of Boston Archives
• Massachusetts Collections Online
• Massachusetts Historical Commission
• Massachusetts Real Estate Atlas Digitization Project 
• Historical Atlas of Massachusetts

• Olmsted Park - The Emerald Necklace Conservancy
• Frederick Law Olmsted Papers
• Fairsted
• The Royall House and Slaves Quarters

• American Indian Histories and Cultures

• Native Northeast Portal
• Native Peoples of New England
• Tribes of the New England/Northeast Region

• Archipedia
• Society of Architectural Historians: Digital Resources
• ArchDaily .
• Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy
• Building Types Study .
• American Institute of Architects: Practicing Architecture
• American Institute of Architects: Blueprint for America Initiatives
• Atlas of Urban Expansion
• Historic American Buildings Survey
• Planning Maps of Midwestern Cities in the 1920s and 1930s
• Urban Land Institute

• ARTstor
• Mass Department of Environmental Protection Image Collections
• Digital Public Library of America

I. JumboSearch for Books     

A Few sample browsing for books::

• "public library" and Boston and architecture
• Architecture domestic -- Massachusetts
• Dwellings -- Massachusetts
• Historic buildings Massachusetts
• church architecture -- Massachusetts
• Architecture and Gothic and revival and boston
• architecture Massachusetts
• architecture Massachusetts Boston
• Boston (Mass.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.

Note: WorldWide Libraries (also known as WorldCat is still a better place to get a fuller picture of  books on a topic.)

II. Databases of Journal Articles 

A. All subjects

• JSTOR

B. Architecture and Related Subject Databases for Journal Articles

• Architecture  (Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals)

• In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases, among others:
• America: History & Life
• Art & Architecture Source
• Bibliography of Asian Studies
• Historical Abstracts (World history and culture)
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine
• Women's Studies International

A few notable journals

• Architecture and culture
• Architectural History
• Architectural record
• Buildings & landscapes: journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum
• Journal of Architectural and Planning Research
• Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
• Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
• Twentieth Century Architecture
• Urban history review / Revue d'histoire urbaine

C. Newspaper and Magazine Articles

Current

• Access World News (rich U.S. regional news)
• Factiva (More international coverage)

Historical

• African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
• American Periodicals (1741-1940)
• British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)
• More