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Planetizen
A public-interest information exchange for the urban planning and development community. Urban planning and development news, job opportunities, commentary and events. http://www.planetizen.com/
Web Sites Urban and Regional Planning:
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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 Portal
Government gateway to planning information throughout the UK. Provides information on plans, appeals, applications, contact details, research areas.
» 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.
» 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.
» The Smarter Land Use Project
Focuses on improving the quality of proposed developments in settled areas. Includes a citizens guidebook for achieving effective collaboration.
» 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 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.
» 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.
» Cyburbia Forums - Discussions about planning, cities, and the built environment.
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» Planetizen: Jobs - Current job postings.
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» Planetizen: News - Links to planning news, reports, and editorials in the media.
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» Planetizen: Radar - Automatically updated collection of syndicated planning content.
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