Background information concerning the University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area (1962) consists of:
- Corporation of the City of Edinburgh Planning Committee minutes, (1 February 1961 )
- documents relating to the City of Edinburgh Development Plan, (1954-1960 )
- a report concerning the University of Edinburgh Comprehensive Development Area, (June 1962 )
- a report concerning the Cambridgeshire County Development Plan in relation to the University of Cambridge,
- a photocopy of a chapter from a textbook entitled Action Area Plans: function, form and content
- a pamphlet: Appeal, University of Edinburgh