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- Urban and Regional Planning Information - Find business information about urban and regional planning at Business.com. Visit the business search engine to find Web sites, news headlines, statistics, events, publications and more.
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- Planetizen
*Cool Site* - Urban Planning & Development News, Jobs, & Events. PLANetizen is a public-interest information exchange for the urban planning and development community. We provide a daily, one-stop source for urban planning news, job opportunities, commentary and events.
- About Planning
- If you can't find it here, then it doesn't exist. Web links, news stories, commentary, university offerings and employment regarding urban planning, growth management, smart growth and new urbanism.
- Alambina
- Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning. Annotated directory of resources and links on a variety of city and regional planning topics.
- American Planning Assoc. (APA)
- Professional association organized to advance the art and science of planning and to foster the activity of planning -- physical, economic, and social -- at the local, regional, state, and national levels.
- APA - State Chapters and Divisions
- Check what your state chapter has going on for planners. Also see the professional divisions for economic development, law, environmental, natural resource and energy, black community, federal planning, planning and women, gays and lesbians, private practice, housing, human services, resort and tourism, information technology, small towns and rural planning, international, transportation, intergovernmental affairs.
- APA - Internet Planning Media
- Site provides quick access to planning-related publications and to help promote the free flow of information between editors, publishers and writers. Website contains contact information for almost 100 planning publications websites and e-mail addresses.
- APA - Planning Magazine
- Check out a some of the best monthly articles of Planning Magazine.
- Aspects of Modern Geography
- Offers information about the mobility habits of urban people including urban planning, transportation planning and psycho-social habits. It is based on several studys which were published in Europe, Germany.
- Berkeley Planning Journal
- BPJ is a peer-reviewed journal published annually by the graduate students of the Dept. of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley.
- Canadian Institute of Planners
- The Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) has been dedicated to the advancement of responsible planning throughout Canada since 1919. In its capacity as the national professional institute and certification body for the planning profession in Canada.
- Cascade Policy Institute
- Institute leads the way in debunking the smart growth myth and presenting alternative policy solutions. Media, policymakers and organizations around the country increasingly look to Cascade for land use and transportation policy advice.
- Center for Land Use Interpretation
- The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research organization involved in exploring, examining, and understanding land and landscape issues. The Center employs a variety of methods to pursue its stated aim, engaging in research, classification, extrapolation, and exhibition.
- Center of Urban Research and Policy (CURP)
- The Center creates a more informed national dialogue about the challenges and successes of our nation's urban policies and programs.
- Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
- Brookings Institution research center focuses on cities and their metropolitan areas, and the impact upon them of government policies, private sector actions, and national trends. Includes articles and research studies.
- Charrette Center
- Interactive information tools for town building professionals and development groups. The Charrette is an interdisciplinary design process used in neighborhood planning and community development.
- Citistates
- The Citistates Group is a network of journalists, speakers and advisers committed to competitive, equitable and sustainable 21st century metropolitan regions.
- CityNet
- An Asia-Pacific regional network of local authorities, with an agenda empahsizing urban development. Note: site has a slow download.
- Common Sense
- Online collection of published essays on land use planning, the environment, development and the no-growth movement.
- Community Initiatives
- An alliance of professionals dedicated to creating healthy and sustainable communities wherever people live, work, play and lead. Serves corporations, organizations, and community collaborations in producing transformative outcomes.
- Community Mapping Project
- Victoria, British Columbia-based organization using mapping as a tool to get citizens involved in planning.
- CommunityViz
- Community planning and visualization software, created by the Orton Family Foundation, allows rural and urban communities to manage their growth through GIS-based 3D modeling tools.
- Congress for New Urbanism
- The Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in central cities, the spread of placeless sprawl, increasing separation by race and income, environmental deterioration, loss of agricultural lands and wilderness, and the erosion of society's built heritage as one interrelated community-building challenge.
- Council of Planning Librarians
- The Council of Planning Librarians is an international professional organization of librarians, information specialists, planners, researches, and educators in the field of planning librarianship.
- Creative Spaces
- Inspiration, ideas and support for creative community involvement in urban design
- Critical Planning
- Critical Planning is a student-run journal established in 1993 by the UCLA Department of Urban Planning. Serving as a forum to debate issues that impact cities and regions, particularly in the context of planning and policy making.
- Cyburbia
- Planning resource center contains a comprehensive directory of Internet resources relevant to the built environment. Also contains information about related mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups, and hosts several interactive message areas.
- Downtown Revitalization Resources
- An annotated collection of resources including urban renewal, historic preservation, land use regulations and urban zoning sites of use to planners, architects, and concerned citizens.
- Grow Smart Rhode Island
- The website of Grow Smart Rhode Island, a statewide non-profit organization that promotes sensible alternatives to suburban sprawl and urban decay.
- Innovative Urban Planning
- Site presents examples of innovative planning in the United States, France and Spain. Special attention is given to public space and transportation. Also gives links to planning articles and resources.
- International Directory of Design
- Comprehensive directory of journals and magazines.
- KnowledgePlex
- Website is a collaborative partnership among leaders in the Affordable Housing and Community Development field. Funding for designing, developing, and building the KnowledgePlex™ was provided by the Fannie Mae Foundation.
- Land Use Planning Information Network
- CERES is an information system developed by the California Resources Agency to facilitate access to a variety of electronic data describing California's rich and diverse environments.
- Links For Planners
- Directory of links set up for Cornell's planning students; but is useful for anyone involved or interested in Urban Planning.
- National Neighborhood Coalition
- The NNC is a convener of people and organizations concerned about neighborhoods, a conduit of information about programs and policies, and an advocate for neighborhoods and community and neighborhood-based organizations.
- Neighborhood Design Center
- The Neighborhood Design Center is a 32 year-old nonprofit organization founded in Baltimore, MD by volunteer architects dedicated to providing lower income communities with access to professional, conceptual design and planning services.
- New Urban News
- Bi-monthly newsletter covering "smart growth," livable communities, and traditional neighborhood development.
- New Urbanism
- New Urbanism is the most important planning movement this century. It is the revival of our lost art of place-making, and 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.
- New Urbanism Resource Index
- Directory of resources on downtown revitalization and surburban sprawl, land use, and criticisms.
- Ordinance.com
- Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and similar services. Registration requried.
- Planners Network
- a voice for progressive professionals and activists concerned with urban planning and social justice.
- PlannersWeb
- "Planning Commissioners Journal" site has resources for planning commissions and zoning boards. Topical material on zoning ordinances, land use, comprehensive plans, master plans, subdivision regulation, transportation, housing, urban design, takings-property rights, and the impacts of information technology on cities and towns.
- Planning and Design Institute
- Land use planning based on social, economic, and physical factors.
- Planning and Markets
- Site dedicated to the study of planned interventions versus market approaches.
- The Planning Exchange
- Non-profit engaged in the exchange of information on urban and rural regeneration and development, primarily in the UK. Site has information about planning topics and upcoming events.
- Planning Links
- Up to date links to websites on urban planning, smart growth, new urbanism and growth management.
- Planning Online
- Website for Planning Magazine in England.
- The Planning Report
- The Insiders Guide to Managed Growth in Southern California.
- Planning Reports Center
- A free Web-directory containing summaries of reports, ordinances, and videos from across the country dealing with land use planning, zoning, environmental, natural resource, transportation planning, and related topics. Site also provides convenient information for ordering all listed reports.
- Planum
- Selected european planning journals ,an extensive planning web guide, archives of plans, information, events from the town and regional planning world.
- The POGO Report
- "The POGO Report" examines the public cost of growth and what is subsidized by the residents versus how much is being paid for the developer.
- Principles of Urban Structure
- Online book by Nikos A. Salingaros, a collaborator of Christopher Alexander, offers a new understanding of urban structure based on recent scientific developments in complexity theory and fractals.
- Rural Resources
- Consultants in rural community planning. Aim to provide a fully integrated approach to the sustainable management and development of the rural environment.
- Sapling
- Architecture, planning and landscape links.
- Sierra Club-Stop Sprawl
- The Sierra Club challenge to sprawl campaign.
- Smart Growth America
- Nationwide coalition promoting a better way to grow; one that protects farmland and open space, revitalizes neighborhoods, keeps housing affordable, preserves scenic and historic resources, and makes communities more livable.
- Smart Growth for Tennessee Towns and Counties
- This guide summarizes the basic steps in a smart growth visioning and planning process. It reviews techniques that can be used at each step.
- Smart Growth Network
- Provides information about the Smart Growth planning movement.
- Smart Land Development
- Citizens guidebook presenting a viable solution to “sprawl.” Website shows anyone how to help create and gain approvals for land development that improves local property values, reduces traffic congestion, enhances natural and historic resources, and builds community spirit.
- The Social Developer
- An examination of issues in modern urban development and its influence on the lives of urban dwellers.
- Sprawl Busters
- Wal-Mart, Home Depot, K Mart, Target. We don't care what the logo says -- We help communities stop the big box bulldozers!
- Sprawl City
- A website about comsumption growth and population growth and their roles in urban sprawl.
- Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse
- Provide resource information on issues surrounding urban sprawl.
- Student Planning Network
- PlaNet is a network of planning students, consisting of 15 local groups in European cities. The central task is to foster co-operation and communication between European planning students. The highlight of every PlaNet-Year is the annual congress for planning students.
- Sustainable Communities Network
- SCN identifies quality resources on sustainability and to disseminate them in a timely way to the public.
- Sustainable Development Center
- U.S. Department of Energy's Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development website.
- Tide Pool - Growth Management
- Goal is to provide the bioregional community with a daily source of the news they need to create a conservation based economy.
- Urban Advantage
- Digital technology can aid in visualizing growth options, allow wide sharing of those visions, and speed up the learning process to turn visions into reality.
- Urban and Regional Planners
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides this overview of what urban and regional planners do, including job outlook and median earnings.
- Urban Documents
- Regularly published guide to the reports and research that are generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada.
- Urban Environmental Management
- From the Urban Environmental Management Research Initiative (UEMRI), 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
- Strives to change the climate and terms of the debate over urban policy by developing and promoting voluntary, private-sector, and market-oriented solutions to urban problems. The program's principal activities focus on urban economic development policy and land-use planning at the local, regional, state, and national levels.
- Urban Land Institute
- Nonprofit education and research institute with focus on the use of land in order to enhance the total environment. Information on urban planning, growth, and development.
- Urban Planning (1794-1918)
- An international anthology of articles, conference papers, and reports, this site consists of primary source material for the study of how urban planning developed up to the end of World War I.
- Urban Planning and Feng Shui
- Consideration of relationship between urban planning and aspects of Feng Shui practice.
- Urban Planning Jobs
- A complete collection of urban planning employment resources, well organized & updated regularly. Winner of the Argus Clearinghouse Seal of Approval.
- Urban Planning Now!
- An indepth listing of sources for urban planners. Organized by state, we have listed links directly to the human resource departments of cities, counties, non profits, and consultants. There is more features coming!
- Urban Studies
- Issues surrounding city and suburban environments and built communities. Category on the About.com network which consists of over 700 Guide sites neatly organized into 36 channels.
- Urban Studies and Planning
- Links to online resources regarding housing, environment and other topics. From University of California, San Diego Social Sciences and Humanities Library.
- Village At
- Providing information about land use issues and sustainable land development.
- What Makes a Good Urban Form?
- Xia Zhang's personal page explores the interrelationship between architecture, urban design, landscape ecology, planning. Includes papers and essays on several topics, synopsis of thesis project on New Urbanism, and selected internet links.
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Last update: 15:01 PT, Monday, November 19, 2001
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