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Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books on public works/infrastructure can be located in most card, book, and online catalogs, include the following:
American Public Works Association. History of public
works in the United States, 1776-1976. Editor, Ellis L. Armstrong;
associate editors, Michael C. Robinson, Suellen M. Hoy. Chicago,
The Association, c1976. 736 p. Grigg, Neil S. Infrastructure engineering and management.
New York, Wiley, c1988. 380 p. Hatry, Harry P., and George E. Peterson. Guides to
managing urban capital, a summary. Washington, Urban Institute Press,
1984. 13 p. (Guides to managing urban capital, v. 1) Rainer, George. Understanding infrastructure: a guide
for architects and planners. New York, Wiley, c1990. 278 p. Schodek, Daniel L. Landmarks in American civil engineering.
Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, c1987. 383 p.
Hatry, Harry P., Annie P. Millar, and James H. Evans.
Guide to setting priorities for capital investment. Washington,
Urban Institute Press, 1985. 76 p. (Guides to managing urban capital,
v. 5) Hatry, Harry P., and Bruce G. Steinthal. Guide to
selecting maintenance strategies for capital facilities. Washington,
Urban Institute Press, 1984. 81 p. (Guides to managing urban capital,
v. 4) Jackson, Donald C. Great American bridges and dams.
Washington, Preservation Press, c1988. 357 p. Ladd, Helen F., and John Yinger. America's ailing
cities: fiscal health and the design of urban policy. Baltimore,
Johns Hopkins University Press, c1989. 334 p. Land development. Washington, National Association
of Home Builders, c1987. 344 p. Pannell, J. P. M. An illustrated history of civil
engineering. New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co, 1965, c1964. 376 p. Perspectives on urban infrastructure. Royce Hanson,
editor. Washington, National Academy Press, 1984. 216 p. Plowden, David. Bridges: the spans of North America.
New York, Norton, 1984, c1974. 328 p. Project infrastructure development handbook. Washington,
Urban Land Institute, 1989. 175 p. Standard plans for public works construction. Promulgated
by American Public Works Association, Southern California Chapter,
Associated General Contractors of California, Southern California
Districts, Joint Cooperative Committee. 1985 ed. Los Angeles, Building
News, 1985, c1984. 1 v. (various pagings) Technology and the rise of the networked city in Europe
and America. Edited by Joel A. Tarr and Gabriel Dupuy. Philadelphia,
Temple University Press, c1988. 339 p.
Building prosperity: financing public infrastructure
for economic development. Washington, Government Finance Research
Center of the Municipal Finance Officers Association, 1983 (1985
printing). 129 p. Fitzgerald, Randall. When government goes private:
successful alternatives to public services. New York, Universe Books,
1988. 330 p. Financing public physical infrastructure. Washington,
Advisory Commission on Inter-governmental Relations, 1984. 51 p.
Grigg, Neil S. Urban water infrastructure: planning,
management, and operation. New York, Wiley, c1986. 328 p. Hackett, Judith C., and others. Managing rural infrastructure:
state assistance to small and rural governments for public works.
Lexington, Ky., Council of State Governments, State Government Research
Institute, Center for Agriculture and Rural Development, c1986.
36 p. Pammer, William J. Managing fiscal strain in major
American cities: understanding retrenchment in the public sector.
New York, Greenwood Press, 1990. 133 p. (Contributions in political
science, no. 247) Privatization: a sourcebook: reports, surveys, and
other selected materials of trends, development, programs. Edited
by John Sherrod. Detroit, Omnigraphics, 1989. 452 p. Privatization and state-owned enterprises: lessons
from the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Edited by Paul
W. MacAvoy and others. Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1989.
360 p. Ross, Randy L. Government and the private sector:
who should do what? New York, Crane, Russak & Co, 1988. 127
p. Vaughan, Roger J. Financing public works in the 1980s.
Washington, Council of State Planning Agencies, c1983. 234 p. (Rebuilding
America, v. 2) HD3885.V36 1983 v. 2 Vaughan, Roger J., and Robert Pollard. Planning and
managing public works in the 1980s. Washington, Council of State
Planning Agencies, c1984. 182 p. (Rebuilding America, v. 1)
Infrastructure for urban growth: proceedings of the
specialty conference. Sponsored by the Urban Planning and Development
and Urban Transportation divisions of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, Holiday Inn-Embarcadero, San Diego, California, June
5-7, 1985. Edited by J. Paul Guyer. New York, The Society, 1985.
201 p. International Conference on Underground Infrastructure
Research, 1st, 1988, Washington, D.C. First International Conference
on Underground Infrastructure Research: proceedings. Water Pollution
Control Federation and others. Denver, American Water Works Association
Research Foundation, c1989. 243 p. Rebuilding America: infrastructure rehabilitation:
proceedings of the conference sponsored by the Metropolitan Association
of Urban Designers and Environmental Planners (MAUDEP), Sheraton
Palace Hotel, San Francisco, California, August 22-24, 1984. Walter
H. Kraft and Mary F. Brown, proceedings coordinators. New York,
American Society of Civil Engineers, c1985. 277 p. Research needs related to the nation's infrastructure:
proceedings of the workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation
and the American Society of Civil Engineers, Airlie House, Airlie,
Virginia, April 24-26, 1984. New York, ASCE, c1984. 42 p. Stretching dollars to strengthen infrastructure: speeches
from a conference. Sponsored by the Eastern Regional Conference
of the Council of State Governments in cooperation with the Southern
Legislative Conference of the Council of State Governments, New
York, April 29-30, 1983. Edited by Richard Watson. Lexington, Ky.,
The Council, c1983. 51 p.
Defining death: a report on the medical, legal
and ethical issues in the determination of death. President's
Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical
and Behavioral Research. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1981.
166 p. United States. President's Commission for the Study
of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
Deciding to forego life-sustaining treatment: a report on the
ethical, medical, and legal issues in treatment decisions. Washington,
President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine
and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.,
1983. 554 p. ----- Implementing human research regulations:
second biennial report on the adequacy and uniformity of federal
rules and policies, and of their implementation for the protection
of human subjects. Washington, President's Commission for the
Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral
Research, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1983. 219 p. ----- Summing up: final report on studies of the
ethical and legal problems in medicine and biomedical and behavioral
research. Washington, President's Commission for the Study of
Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research,
U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1983. 137 p. United States. President's Commission for the Study
of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
Securing access to health care: a report on the ethical implications
of differences in the availability of health services. Washington,
U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1983. 3 v.
Construction and materials research and development
for the nation's public works. Prepared by the Energy and Materials
Program and the Science, Education, and Transportation Program,
Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress. Washington, The
Programs, 1987. 146 p. Kaplan, Marshall. Hard choices: a report on the increasing
gap between America's infrastructure needs and our ability to pay
for them: a study. Prepared for the use of the Subcommittee on Economic
Goals and Intergovernmental Policy of the Joint Economic Committee,
Congress of the United States. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.,
1984. 230 p. (Senate print, 98-164) New directions for the nation's public works. Washington,
Congress of the U.S., Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Govt. Print.
Off., 1988. 140 p. Private Sector Advisory Panel of Infrastructure Financing
(U.S.). Report of the Private Sector Advisory Panel on Infrastructure
Financing to the Committee on the Budget, United States Senate.
Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1989. 1 v. (various pagings)
(Senate print, 101-23) United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Annual report
FY86 of the Secretary of the Army on civil works activities. Washington,
Dept. of the Army, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1986. 2 v. (various pagings)
United States. President's Commission on Privatization.
Privatization: toward more effective government. Report of the President's
Commission on Privatization. David F. Linowes, chairman, and others.
Washington, The Commission, 1988. 278 p.
Abstracting and indexing services that index relevant journal articles and other literature are listed below. Note: Consult reference librarian for location of abstracting and indexing services in the Science Reading Room Applied Science & Technology Index (1913-
) Current Technology Index (1962- ) Engineering Index (1884-) Z5851.E62 <SciRR> Public Works Magazine Index (1980- ) PAIS Bulletin (1915-) Z7163.P9 SSRR Public Works
Journals that often contain articles on public works
and infrastructure can be found include the following:
Adair, James H. Materials R&D in the rebuilding
of America's infrastructure. In American Ceramic Society. Bulletin,
v. 69, Jan. 1990: 38-39. Barnett, M. J. N. Role of private sector finance.
Journal of professional issues in engineering, v. 115, Jan. 1989:
16-18. Blattner, Robert A., and Todd S. Davis. The ABCs of
SRFs. Civil engineering, v. 60, Dec. 1990: 54-56. Edgington, David W. New strategies for technology
development in Japanese cities and regions. Town planning review,
v. 60, Jan. 1989: 1-27. Karaa, Fadi A. Infrastructure maintenance management
system development. Journal of professional issues in engineering,
v. 115, Oct. 1989: 422-432. Nelson, Arthur C., and others. Critical elements of
development impact-fee programs. Journal of urban planning and development,
v. 116: May 1990: 34-47. Reinhardt, William G. All roads lead to privatization.
ENR, v. 224, March 15, 1990: 28-30. Smith, Robert D., and others. Private operation of
water plant pays dividends. Public works, v. 121, Feb. 1990: 52-53.
Tarricone, Paul. Bridges under surveillance. Civil
engineering, v. 60, May 1990: 48-51.
TECHNICAL REPORTS and other types of literature
and indexed in the following guides: Government Reports Announcements & Index (1946-
) Public Works See also key words, e.g. Infrastructure, in NTIS Title Index on Microfiche (1964- ) Uncatalogued* Index to Current Urban Documents (1972- )
Public works Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
(1895- ) Goodrich, James A., and Francis T. Mayo. Environmental
regulation: its impact on infrastructure decision making. Cincinnati,
Ohio, Environmental Protection Agency, Drinking Water Research Division,
Jan. 1989. 9 p. (EPA/600/D-88/276) Impact of federal funding changes on state/local infrastructure
financing resources. (Report to the Congress.) Bethesda, Md., Apogee
Research, Inc., July 1989. 108 p. Infrastructure for the 21st century: framework for
a research agenda. Washington, National Research Council, Committee
on Infrastructure Innovation, 1987. 102 p. Perspectives on urban infrastructure. Royce Hanson,
editor. Washington, National Research Council, Committee on National
Urban Policy, 1984. 223 p. World Bank glossary: glossary of urban infrastructure
maintenance. Glossaire de l'entretien de l'infrastructure urbaine.
Glosario de mantenimiento de la infrastructura urbana. Washington,
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1987. 47
p.
Selected materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet boxes include the following:
Armstrong, Ellis L. America's highway program. Journal of professional issues in engineering, v. 114, Apr. 1988: 125-134. Bates, Marcia H., and Stephen P. Shelton. Environmental engineering infrastructure: problems and needs. Journal of professional issues in engineering, v. 115, Jan. 1989: 19-28. Grizzle, Charles L. Financing environmental infrastructure: a national challenge. Municipal finance journal, v. 10, fall 1989: 231-239. Hersch, Paul. Encouraging signs. Water engineering & management, v. 137, Apr. 1990: 18. Knack, Ruth Eckdish. America in ruins? Not quite. Planning, v. 54, Feb. 1988: 9-14. Moore, W. John. The bridge is out. National journal, v. 20, Apr. 2, 1988: 868-872. Petersen, John. The future of infrastructure needs. American city & county, v. 104, Apr. 1989: 10. Poggemeyer, Lester H. New frontiers in civil engineering: infrastructure. Journal of professional issues in engineering, v. 115, Oct. 1989: 393-397. Stix, Gary. Infrastructure woes: going high-tech to diagnose decaying roads. Scientific American, v. 263, Oct. 1990: 123..
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