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Planning Portal - http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/
Government gateway to planning information throughout the UK. Provides information on plans, appeals, applications, contact details, research areas. |
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Cyburbia - http://www.cyburbia.org/
Planning resource center includes a detailed resource directory, numerous message boards, a wiki, and image galleries. |
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http://archnet.org/ - http://archnet.org/
An online community and resource for architects, urban designers, landscape architects, planners, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world. |
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PlannersWeb - http://pcj.typepad.com/
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. |
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Urban Planning, 1794-1918 - http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/homepage.htm
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. |
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Planetizen - http://www.planetizen.com/
A public-interest information exchange for the urban planning and development community. Urban planning and development news, job opportunities, commentary and events. |
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Urban Environmental Management - http://www.gdrc.org/uem/
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. |
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Wikipedia: Urban Planning - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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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http://www.planum.net/ - http://www.planum.net/
Selected European planning journals, an extensive planning web guide, archives of plans, and events from the town and regional planning world. |
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Resource for Urban Design Information - http://www.rudi.net/
Multimedia resource for teaching, research, and professional activity in urban design and its related disciplines. |
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Center for Land Use Interpretation - http://www.clui.org/
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. |
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Urban Age - http://www.urban-age.net/
International conference series on the future of cities. Conference information, archives, foci, and networking. |
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New Urbanism - http://www.newurbanism.org/
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. |
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California Land Use Planning Network - http://ceres.ca.gov/planning/
LUPIN (Land Use Planning Information Network) is an information service that supports and addresses California land use planning issues via the CERES web. |
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The Mayors' Institute on City Design - http://www.micd.org/
Works to transform mayors into advocates for good design by hosting symposiums on urban design. |
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Smart City - http://www.smartcityradio.com/smartcityradio/
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. |
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CityMayors - http://www.citymayors.com/
News about the world's cities and how their mayors are dealing with today's urban issues. |
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National Geographic - The New Suburb? - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse/sprawl/
Explore a virtual new urbanist neighborhood. Includes comparisons to typical suburban developments, lesson plans, links, and an image gallery. |
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Big Box Reuse - http://www.bigboxreuse.com/
Julia Christensen studies and explores how communities reuse empty big box buildings. Case studies, articles, and presentation schedule. |
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Urban Photo - http://www.urbanphoto.net/
Promotes and explores urban issues through photography. |
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Periferia - http://www.periferia.org/
Covers topics on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean. |
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Europaforum Wien - http://www.europaforum.or.at/
Analyzes policies, conducts public dialogues, organizes conferences, and publishes works on urban issues in the European Union. In German and English. |
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Great Streets! - http://www.greatstreets.org/
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. |
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http://www.think08.co.uk/ - http://www.think08.co.uk/
An annual conference at ExCeL London about sustainability in the built environment. |
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http://parole.aporee.org/ - http://parole.aporee.org/
A thesaraus of modern concepts in urban development. For each there is a definition, bibliography and its source publication. |
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Planetizen: Jobs - http://www.planetizen.com/feeds/rss_jobs.xml
Current job postings. |
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Online NewsHour: New Urbanism - http://www.pbs.org/newshour/newurbanism/
Companion site to PBS program includes core concepts, interviews, discussions, criticisms, comparisons, and examples. |
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ATLAS Guide - http://www.atlasplanning.com/
Advisory Team for Large Applications (ATLAS) guide to the town planning process in the UK in relation to large, complex or strategic development projects. |
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Urban Planet - http://www.urbanplanet.org/
Urbanist message boards with areas for general and regional discussions. |
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Urbanology - http://www.urbanology.org/
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. |
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Ecology of Absence - http://www.eco-absence.org/
Documents abandonment of the built environment and speculates on geographic, sociological, ecological, and architectural factors. Most examples are in St. Louis, Missouri. |
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Planetizen: Radar - http://www.planetizen.com/feeds/rss_radar.xml
Automatically updated collection of syndicated planning content. |
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Planetizen: News - http://www.planetizen.com/feeds/rss_all.xml
Links to planning news, reports, and editorials in the media. |
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Planetizen: Announcements - http://www.planetizen.com/feeds/rss_announce.xml
Information on RFPs, RFQs, conferences, educational opportunities, press releases, and other current events. |
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Planning-applications.co.uk - http://www.planning-applications.co.uk/
Free online guide to the UK town planning system. Lodge an appeal and review development plans. |
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Ordinance.com - http://www.ordinance.com/
Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and similar services. Registration required. |
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CharretteCenter.net - http://www.charrettecenter.net/
Information on planning, conducting, and implementing results from design charettes. |
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Neighborhood Planning - http://www.neighborhoodplanning.org/
Educational resource for understanding and improving neighborhoods. Includes a number of detailed examinations of topical issues. |
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Timeline of New Urbanism - http://www.nutimeline.net/
A searchable database of key events in the history of new urbanism, as well as historical influences. |
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Observatoire de la Ville Interieure - http://www.ovi.umontreal.ca/
Collects and disseminates information on Montreal's indoor and underground city. In French and English. |
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Urban Planning Now - http://www.urbanplanningnow.com/
Job postings and links to planning employers. |
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Land Use Law - http://law.wustl.edu/landuselaw/
Includes articles, cases, ordinances, statutes, and photographs from Professor Daniel R. Mandelker of Washington University. |
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The Social Life of Cities - http://www.wfu.edu/sociology/sociallifeofcities/
A collection of photo essays illustrating aspects of public space, collective memory, urban design, and architecture. |
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The Social Developer - http://www.hillside.ca
An examination of issues in modern urban development and its influence on the lives of urban dwellers. |
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Planning and Regulatory Services Online (PARSOL) - http://www.parsol.gov.uk/
National United Kingdom program providing planning and regulatory standards, toolkits, specifications, schemas, and systems for use by local governments. |
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The Smarter Land Use Project - http://landuse.org/
Focuses on improving the quality of proposed developments in settled areas. Includes a citizens guidebook for achieving effective collaboration. |
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Sense of Community Project - http://www.msu.edu/user/socomm/
A study of social capital in urban blocks of Lansing, Michigan demonstrating its relationship to quality of life and social behavior. |
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Space.City - http://space-city.net/
Seattle, Washington-based nonprofit hosts lectures and events on architecture, public art, and urbanism. |
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Urban Residue - http://www.urbanresidue.com/
Papers on the nature of public space and profiles of progressive urban areas. |
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User Based City - http://userbasedcity.blogspot.com/
Blog exploring the possibility of a user based city, one that is not planned from above but grows from the bottom. |
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Urbanicity - http://www.urbanicity.us/
An introduction to the concept of urbanicity. |
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The KunstlerCast: The Tragic Comedy of Suburban Sprawl - http://kunstlercast.com
A weekly podcast about suburban sprawl, the end of cheap oil and urban planning. Featuring James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Geography of Nowhere." |
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Ecosystem Anthologies: Land Use - http://www.ecoiq.com/onlineresources/anthologies/landuse/index.html
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. |
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UrbanWorkbench - http://urbanworkbench.com
Blog about sustainability in urban design and community development, where ideas are fleshed out, concepts are discussed, and new technologies reported on and reviewed. |
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Legal Information Institute: Land Use Law - http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Land_use
An overview provided by the Cornell Law School. |