ArchNet
An online community and resource for architects, urban designers, landscape architects, planners, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world. |
Big Box Reuse
Julia Christensen studies and explores how communities reuse empty big box buildings. Case studies, articles, and presentation schedule. |
Building Better Communities Network
An information clearinghouse and communication forum dedicated to building inclusive communities and to successfully siting affordable housing and community services. |
Building Providence
Provides construction status of building and planning projects, public meeting information, and links about Providence, Rhode Island. |
California Land Use Planning Network
LUPIN (Land Use Planning Information Network) is an information service that supports and addresses California land use planning issues via the CERES web. |
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Research organization involved in exploring, examining, and understanding land and landscape issues. It employs a variety of methods to pursue its stated aim, engaging in research, classification, extrapolation, and exhibition. |
Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
Reports, analysis, commentary, special features, and books from The Brookings Institution. |
CharretteCenter.net
Information on planning, conducting, and implementing results from design charettes. |
CityMayors
News about the world's cities and how their mayors are dealing with today's urban issues. |
Creating Quality Places
Fosters the design of quality places in the Kansas City, Missouri area. Includes principles, case studies, tools, and a forum. |
Creative Spaces
Inspiration, ideas and support for creative community involvement in urban design |
Cyberhood
Virtual community centered on urban planning issues, including race, class, and gender. List-serv, gallery, links. |
Cyburbia
Planning resource center includes a detailed resource directory, numerous message boards, a wiki, and image galleries. |
Cyburbia Forums
Discussions about planning, cities, and the built environment. |
Ecology of Absence
Documents abandonment of the built environment and speculates on geographic, sociological, ecological, and architectural factors. Most examples are in St. Louis, Missouri. |
Ecosystem Anthologies: Land Use
This guide to online resources serves the information and communication needs of individuals and organizations working to protect our environment and create a sustainable future. |
Europaforum Wien
Analyzes policies, conducts public dialogues, organizes conferences, and publishes works on urban issues in the European Union. In German and English. |
Great Streets!
Profiles of cities with thriving main streets, an examination of the details that make them successful, and a look at the fictional River City in the movie The Music Man. |
Infrastructure.ie
Presents categorized information and maps of Ireland's physical, social, and enterprise infrastructure. |
Jobs In Planning
Employment opportunities for planning professionals, with a focus on Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. |
Land Use Law
Includes articles, cases, ordinances, statutes, and photographs from Professor Daniel R. Mandelker of Washington University. |
Legal Information Institute: Land Use Law
An overview provided by the Cornell Law School. |
Los Angeles H* Urban Bureau
An urban design collaborative devoted to bridging the gap between the traditional development process and the community. |
Megacities
Annual Dutch lecture series. Includes full text archives from prior years. |
National Geographic - The New Suburb?
Explore a virtual new urbanist neighborhood. Includes comparisons to typical suburban developments, lesson plans, links, and an image gallery. |
Neighborhood Planning
Educational resource for understanding and improving neighborhoods. Includes a number of detailed examinations of topical issues. |
New Urbanism
The revival of our lost art of place-making, it is essentially a re-ordering of the built environment into the form of complete towns. New Urbanism promotes the creation and restoration of compact, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods, towns, and cities. |
Observatoire de la Ville Interieure
Collects and disseminates information on Montreal's indoor and underground city. In French and English. |
Occupational Outlook Handbook: Urban and Regional Planners
Career profile from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
Online NewsHour: New Urbanism
Companion site to PBS program includes core concepts, interviews, discussions, criticisms, comparisons, and examples. |
Ordinance.com
Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and similar services. Registration required. |
Parole
A thesaraus of modern concepts in urban development. For each there is a definition, bibliography and its source publication. |
People in Place
Conference in Melbourne, Australia examines creative, livable, and innovative cities. Registration, program, speaker profiles, news, and press information. |
Periferia
Covers topics on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean. |
Planetizen
A public-interest information exchange for the urban planning and development community. Urban planning and development news, job opportunities, commentary and events. |
Planetizen: Announcements
Information on RFPs, RFQs, conferences, educational opportunities, press releases, and other current events. |
Planetizen: Jobs
Current job postings. |
Planetizen: News
Links to planning news, reports, and editorials in the media. |
Planetizen: Radar
Automatically updated collection of syndicated planning content. |
PlannersWeb
Topical material on zoning ordinances, land use, comprehensive plans, master plans, subdivision regulation, transportation, housing, urban design, takings-property rights, and the impacts on cities and towns. |
Planning and Regulatory Services Online (PARSOL)
National United Kingdom program providing planning and regulatory standards, toolkits, specifications, schemas, and systems for use by local governments. |
Planning Help
Campaign to Protect Rural England project provides information on how citizens can influence local planning decisions. |
Planning Portal
Government gateway to planning information throughout the UK. Provides information on plans, appeals, applications, contact details, research areas. |
Planning Resource
UK planning portal. Includes news, employment, appeals, education, documents, consultants directory, and forum. |
Planning-applications.co.uk
Free online guide to the U.K. town planning system. Lodge an appeal and review development plans. |
Planum
Selected European planning journals, an extensive planning web guide, archives of plans, and events from the town and regional planning world. |
Resource for Urban Design Information
Multimedia resource for teaching, research, and professional activity in urban design and its related disciplines. |
Sense of Community Project
A study of social capital in urban blocks of Lansing, Michigan demonstrating its relationship to quality of life and social behavior. |
Smart City
A weekly, hour-long public radio talk show that looks at urban life. Host Carol Coletta talks with public policy experts, designers, elected officials, developers, planners and others in discussions of urban issues. |
Space.City
Seattle, Washington-based nonprofit hosts lectures and events on architecture, public art, and urbanism. |
Suburbia Project
A collection of essays covering urban and suburban design, transportation modalities, habitat preservation, urban farming, and social and environmental economics. |
The Land Centre
An internet clearinghouse providing information about Canadian real estate and land use. |
The Mayors' Institute on City Design
Works to transform mayors into advocates for good design by hosting symposiums on urban design. |
The Orange Empire of Southern California
Profiles, news, and commentary for the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan region. |
The Smarter Land Use Project
Focuses on improving the quality of proposed developments in settled areas. Includes a citizens guidebook for achieving effective collaboration. |
The Social Developer
An examination of issues in modern urban development and its influence on the lives of urban dwellers. |
The Social Life of Cities
A collection of photo essays illustrating aspects of public space, collective memory, urban design, and architecture. |
This Land is Ours
An introduction to the planning process prepared by the League of Women Voters. |
Tidepool
Environmental, community, and economic news for the bioregional community of western North America. |
Timeline of New Urbanism
A searchable database of key events in the history of new urbanism, as well as historical influences. |
Urban Age
International conference series on the future of cities. Conference information, archives, foci, and networking. |
Urban Environmental Management
A grouping of urban planning researchers from around the world. It looks at urban areas as the intersection of natural, built, and socio-economic environments. |
Urban Futures
A project of the Reason Public Policy Institute. Promotes voluntary, private-sector and market-oriented solutions to sprawl and other urban problems. |
Urban Photo
Promotes and explores urban issues through photography. |
Urban Planet
Urbanist message boards with areas for general and regional discussions. |
Urban Planning Now
Job postings and links to planning employers. |
Urban Planning Topics
Dedicated to providing information and resources on urban and regional planning and environmental issues. |
Urban Planning, 1794-1918
An international anthology of primary source material for the study of how urban planning developed up to the end of World War I. Includes articles, conference papers, and reports. |
Urban Residue
Papers on the nature of public space and profiles of progressive urban areas. |
Urbanicity
An introduction to the concept of urbanicity. |
Urbanology
Urban projects, ideas, and plans. Virtual tour in ghetto spaces, urban planning students network and philosophy for the Urban Planning Department of Columbia. |
Wikipedia: Urban Planning
Encyclopedia entry covers planning's role in aesthetics, safety, transportation, suburbanization, and the environment. Includes lists of famous planners and planned communities. |
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