Research with NYU Databases

NYU Research Databases:

ACM Digital (technology): https://persistent.library.nyu.edu/arch/NYU00676

SocINDEX (sociology): http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.library.nyu.edu/ehost/search/advanced?vid=0&sid=cee781c0-ba10-42fb-85f9-5c64a099b567%40sessionmgr101

Oxford Bibliographies: https://www-oxfordbibliographies-com.proxy.library.nyu.edu/

PsycNet (psychology): https://psycnet-apa-org.proxy.library.nyu.edu/

Education Source with ERIC (education): http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.library.nyu.edu/ehost/search/advanced?vid=0&sid=6454a5eb-9c97-4069-9756-87f621152942%40pdc-v-sessmgr03

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (urban planning): https://search-proquest-com.proxy.library.nyu.edu/avery/results/1D6D1DB6A3254E52PQ/1?accountid=12768

*Thanks so Margaret Smith from the NYU research libraries for showing us around the databases!

Articles & Further Research:

ACM:

• A novel approach to interactive playgrounds: the interactive slide project

• Sonic Playgrounds: Exploring Principles and Tools for Outdoor Sonic Interaction

• Future Playgrounds Workshop

• Designing for Children's Outdoor Play

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals:

• Environment Design: strategies of Man Senda & Environment Design Institute: Playgrounds and play structure.

• Courtyard oases: ecology at the heart of the school

• Playgrounds at the crossroads: the landscape of children's play is changing as park playgrounds give way to commercial family playscapes

• Playground with a mission: landscape architects and an artist turn around an inner-city playground [Mission Hill Playground, Boston]

• Go wild, Oregon child: nature-based play areas are pulling kids back outside

• Children's play and urban playground environments: a comparison of traditional, contemporary, and adventure playground types

• Working in the margins: a nontraditional approach to the practice of landscape architecture creates a much-needed playground in a women's prison

• Turn of the century women's organizations, urban design, and the origin of the American playground movement