CITY 360: Urban Renewal or Change?(BMC)

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Deconstruct your topic or research question to select keywords, phrases or concepts. Think of synonyms of these terms as well.

Boolean Operator: AND, OR, NOT, NEAR

• Use AND to connect your main concepts
• Use OR between related concepts
• Use NEAR to find two concepts that are in proximity to each other (an option on JSTOR)
• Put quotations around a term to search for that exact phrase e.g. "migration policy"

Use nesting by adding parentheses around your OR phrases and quotes around multi-term phrases      

     Examples: (urban OR city) AND plan*

                    (city AND planning) AND (America)

                    America* AND (“urban layout” OR “city planning”)