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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.
Search in Category: Society: Issues: Environment: Politics
www.planetizen.com - modified: 7 months ago - cached


Planning Portal
Government gateway to planning information throughout the UK. Provides information
on plans, appeals, applications, contact details, research areas.
Search in Category: Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Government: Communities and Local Government: Planning and Development
www.planningportal.gov.uk - cached


Big Box Reuse
Julia Christensen studies and explores how communities reuse empty big box
buildings. Case studies, articles, and presentation schedule.
www.bigboxreuse.com - cached


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.
ceres.ca.gov/planning - cached


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.
www.clui.org - cached


CityMayors
News about the world's cities and how their mayors are dealing with today's urban
issues.
www.citymayors.com - cached


Cyburbia
Planning resource center includes a detailed resource directory, numerous message
boards, a wiki, and image galleries.
www.cyburbia.org - published: Apr 21 2008 - cached


 XML  Cyburbia Forums
Discussions about planning, cities, and the built environment.
www.cyburbia.org/forums/external.php?type=rss - modified: 7 months ago - cached


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.
Search in Category: Recreation: Outdoors: Urban Exploration: North America: United States: Missouri
www.eco-absence.org - published: Aug 01 2007 - cached


Jobs In Planning
Employment opportunities for planning professionals, with a focus on Australia, New
Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Search in Category: Science: Environment: Employment
www.jobsinplanning.com - cached


National Geographic - The New Suburb?
Explore a virtual new urbanist neighborhood. Includes comparisons to typical
suburban developments, lesson plans, links, and an image gallery.
Search in Category: Society: Issues: Environment: Conservation and Endangered Species
Search in Category: News: Media: Journalism: Photojournalism: Magazines
Search in Category: Science: Social Sciences: Geography: Cartography
Search in Category: Science: Social Sciences: Geography: Organizations: National Geographic Society
www.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse/sprawl - indexed: 5 days ago - cached


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.
www.newurbanism.org - indexed: 2 days ago - cached


Occupational Outlook Handbook: Urban and Regional Planners
Career profile from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Government: Executive Branch: Department of Labor
Search in Category: Business: Employment: Careers: Surveys and Statistics
Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Government: Executive Branch: Department of Labor
Search in Category: Science: Social Sciences: Economics: Indicators and Statistics: Official Statistics: North America: United States
Search in Category: Society: Law: Legal Information: Labor and Employment Law: Government Agencies
stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos057.htm - indexed: 1 day ago - published: Apr 14 2007 - cached


 XML  Planetizen: Announcements
Information on RFPs, RFQs, conferences, educational opportunities, press releases,
and other current events.
Search in Category: Society: Issues: Environment: Politics
www.planetizen.com/feeds/rss_announce.xml - modified: 7 months ago - cached


 XML  Planetizen: Jobs
Current job postings.
Search in Category: Society: Issues: Environment: Politics
www.planetizen.com/feeds/rss_jobs.xml - modified: 7 months ago - cached


Planetizen: News
Links to planning news, reports, and editorials in the media.
Search in Category: Society: Issues: Environment: Politics
www.planetizen.com/feeds/rss_all.xml - modified: 7 months ago - cached


Planetizen: Radar
Automatically updated collection of syndicated planning content.
Search in Category: Society: Issues: Environment: Politics
www.planetizen.com/feeds/rss_radar.xml - modified: 7 months ago - cached


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.
pcj.typepad.com - cached


Planning Resource
UK planning portal. Includes news, employment, appeals, education, documents,
consultants directory, and forum.
www.planningresource.co.uk - cached


Planning-applications.co.uk
Free online guide to the UK town planning system. Lodge an appeal and review
development plans.
Search in Category: Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Business and Economy: Legal Services: Resources
www.planning-applications.co.uk - cached


Planum
Selected European planning journals, an extensive planning web guide, archives of
plans, and events from the town and regional planning world.
www.planum.net - cached


Resource for Urban Design Information
Multimedia resource for teaching, research, and professional activity in urban
design and its related disciplines.
Search in Category: Business: Transportation and Logistics: Urban Transport
www.rudi.net - indexed: 2 days ago - modified: 4 days ago - cached


The Mayors' Institute on City Design
Works to transform mayors into advocates for good design by hosting symposiums on
urban design.
www.micd.org - cached


Urban Age
International conference series on the future of cities. Conference information,
archives, foci, and networking.
www.urban-age.net - cached


Urban Futures
A project of the Reason Public Policy Institute. Promotes voluntary, private-sector
and market-oriented solutions to sprawl and other urban problems.
www.urbanfutures.org - indexed: 1 day ago - cached


Urban Planet
Urbanist message boards with areas for general and regional discussions.
www.urbanplanet.org - indexed: 1 day ago - modified: 2 days ago - cached


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.
Search in Category: Reference: Libraries: Research
www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/homepage.htm - cached


ArchNet
An online community and resource for architects, urban designers, landscape
architects, planners, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world.
Search in Category: Arts: Architecture: Building Types: Religious: Islamic
www.archnet.org - modified: 8 months ago - cached


ATLAS Guide
Advisory Team for Large Applications (ATLAS) guide to the town planning process in
the UK in relation to large, complex or strategic development projects.
www.atlasplanning.com - cached


Building Better Communities Network
An information clearinghouse and communication forum dedicated to building
inclusive communities and to successfully siting affordable housing and community
services.
www.bettercommunities.org - cached


Megacities
Annual Dutch lecture series. Includes full text archives from prior years.
www.megacities.nl - cached


Parole
A thesaraus of modern concepts in urban development. For each there is a
definition, bibliography and its source publication.
parole.aporee.org - cached


Periferia
Covers topics on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean.
www.periferia.org - published: May 27 2001 - cached


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.
www.smartcityradio.com/smartcityradio - cached


Space.City
Seattle, Washington-based nonprofit hosts lectures and events on architecture,
public art, and urbanism.
www.space-city.net - modified: 7 months ago - cached


The Smarter Land Use Project
Focuses on improving the quality of proposed developments in settled areas.
Includes a citizens guidebook for achieving effective collaboration.
www.landuse.org - published: Jul 28 2008 - cached


The Social Life of Cities
A collection of photo essays illustrating aspects of public space, collective
memory, urban design, and architecture.
Search in Category: Reference: Education: Colleges and Universities: North America: United States: North Carolina: Wake Forest University
www.wfu.edu/sociology/sociallifeofcities - indexed: 2 days ago - published: Feb 07 1997 - cached


Timeline of New Urbanism
A searchable database of key events in the history of new urbanism, as well as
historical influences.
www.nutimeline.net - cached


Urban Photo
Promotes and explores urban issues through photography.
www.urbanphoto.net - cached


EcoIQ: Sustainable Land Use Articles & Anthologies
Guide tells how by considering energy in urban planning, city planners can improve
the quality of life in their cities while providing significant dollar savings to
city government, citizens, and the business community. (Longer PDF version
available, press "previous" at end of file.). ...
Search in Category: Science: Environment: Sustainability: Community Sustainability
Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: California: Localities: C: Cupertino: Business and Economy
Search in Category: Science: Environment: Directories
www.ecoiq.com/onlineresources/anthologies/landuse - indexed: 1 day ago - cached


CharretteCenter.net
Information on planning, conducting, and implementing results from design
charettes.
www.charrettecenter.net - cached


Europaforum Wien
Analyzes policies, conducts public dialogues, organizes conferences, and publishes
works on urban issues in the European Union. In German and English.
www.europaforum.or.at - indexed: 2 days ago - cached


Land Use Law
Includes articles, cases, ordinances, statutes, and photographs from Professor
Daniel R. Mandelker of Washington University.
law.wustl.edu/landuselaw - indexed: 6 days ago - published: Aug 08 2008 - cached


Observatoire de la Ville Interieure
Collects and disseminates information on Montreal's indoor and underground city. In
French and English.
Search in Category: Regional: North America: Canada: Quebec: Localities: M: Montreal: Society and Culture
www.ovi.umontreal.ca - indexed: 2 days ago


Online NewsHour: New Urbanism
Companion site to PBS program includes core concepts, interviews, discussions,
criticisms, comparisons, and examples.
Search in Category: Arts: Television: News: Programs: Breaking News
Search in Category: News: Analysis and Opinion
Search in Category: Arts: Television: Networks: PBS
www.pbs.org/newshour/newurbanism - cached


Ordinance.com
Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and
similar services. Registration required.
Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Government: Local Government
www.ordinance.com


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.
www.parsol.gov.uk - published: Feb 01 2006 - cached


Think
An annual conference at ExCeL London about sustainability in the built environment.
www.think08.co.uk - cached


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.
Search in Category: Science: Environment: Sustainability: Community Sustainability
Search in Category: Society: Issues: Environment: Directories
www.gdrc.org/uem - cached


Urban Planning Now
Job postings and links to planning employers.
www.urbanplanningnow.com - modified: 9 months ago - cached


Urbanology
Provides solutions in the fields of urban development, design, architecture and new
media. Explores, documents, archives, researches and intervenes in urban spaces
around the world, including projects in the last ten years in Mumbai, Tokyo, New
York and Bogota.
www.urbanology.org - published: Aug 01 2007 - cached


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.
www.greatstreets.org - cached


Legal Information Institute: Land Use Law
An overview provided by the Cornell Law School.
topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Land_use - cached


Neighborhood Planning
Educational resource for understanding and improving neighborhoods. Includes a
number of detailed examinations of topical issues.
www.neighborhoodplanning.org - cached


Planning Help
Campaign to Protect Rural England project provides information on how citizens can
influence local planning decisions.
www.planninghelp.org.uk


The KunstlerCast: The Tragic Comedy of Suburban Sprawl
A weekly podcast about suburban sprawl, the end of cheap oil and urban planning.
Featuring James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Geography of Nowhere."
www.kunstlercast.com - cached


The Social Developer
An examination of issues in modern urban development and its influence on the lives
of urban dwellers.
www.hillside.ca


Urban Residue
Papers on the nature of public space and profiles of progressive urban areas.
www.urbanresidue.com - cached


Urbanicity
An introduction to the concept of urbanicity.
www.urbanicity.us - cached


UrbanWorkbench
Blog about sustainability in urban design and community development, where ideas
are fleshed out, concepts are discussed, and new technologies reported on and
reviewed.
www.urbanworkbench.com - cached


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.
Search in Category: Reference: Education: Colleges and Universities: North America: United States: Michigan: Michigan State University
www.msu.edu/user/socomm - cached




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