 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. |
 Ordinance.com - http://www.ordinance.com/ Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and similar services. Registration required. |
 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. |
 Planning Resource - http://www.planning.haynet.com/ UK planning portal. Includes news, employment, appeals, education, documents, consultants directory, and forum. |
 Online NewsHour: New Urbanism - http://www.pbs.org/newshour/newurbanism/ Companion site to PBS program includes core concepts, interviews, discussions, criticisms, comparisons, and examples. |
 CityMayors - http://www.citymayors.com/ News about the world's cities and how their mayors are dealing with today's urban issues. |
 Resource for Urban Design Information - http://www.rudi.net/ Multimedia resource for teaching, research, and professional activity in urban design and its related disciplines. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Legal Information Institute: Land Use Law - http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/land_use.html An overview provided by the Cornell Law School. |
 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. |
 Planetizen: News - http://www.planetizen.com/feeds/rss_all.xml Links to planning news, reports, and editorials in the media. |
 Planetizen: Announcements - http://www.planetizen.com/feeds/rss_announce.xml Information on RFPs, RFQs, conferences, educational opportunities, press releases, and other current events. |
 Planetizen: Radar - http://www.planetizen.com/feeds/rss_radar.xml Automatically updated collection of syndicated planning content. |
 Planetizen: Jobs - http://www.planetizen.com/feeds/rss_jobs.xml Current job postings. |
 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. |
 The Social Developer - http://www.hillside.ca An examination of issues in modern urban development and its influence on the lives of urban dwellers. |
 Urban Residue - http://www.urbanresidue.com/ Papers on the nature of public space and profiles of progressive urban areas. |
 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. |
 PlannersWeb - http://www.plannersweb.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. |
 Urban Planning Now - http://www.urbanplanningnow.com/ Job postings and links to planning employers. |
 Urban Photo - http://www.urbanphoto.net/ Promotes and explores urban issues through photography. |
 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. |
 Urbanology - http://www.urbanology.org/ Urban projects, ideas, and plans. Virtual tour in ghetto spaces, urban planning students network and philosophy for the Urban Planning Department of Columbia. |
 Jobs In Planning - http://www.jobsinplanning.com/ Employment opportunities for planning professionals, with a focus on Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. |
 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. |
 ArchNet - 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. |
 Urban Planet - http://www.urbanplanet.org/ Urbanist message boards with areas for general and regional discussions. |
 Tidepool - http://www.tidepool.org/ Environmental, community, and economic news for the bioregional community of western North America. |
 Planning Help - http://www.planninghelp.org.uk/ Campaign to Protect Rural England project provides information on how citizens can influence local planning decisions. |
 Megacities - http://www.megacities.nl/ Annual Dutch lecture series. Includes full text archives from prior years. |
 Periferia - http://www.periferia.org/ Covers topics on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean. |
 CharretteCenter.net - http://www.charrettecenter.net/ Information on planning, conducting, and implementing results from design charettes. |
 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. |
 Urban Futures - http://www.urbanfutures.org/ A project of the Reason Public Policy Institute. Promotes voluntary, private-sector and market-oriented solutions to sprawl and other urban problems. |
 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. |
 The Mayors' Institute on City Design - http://www.archfoundation.org/micd/ Works to transform mayors into advocates for good design by hosting symposiums on urban design. |
 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. |
 Building Better Communities Network - http://www.bettercommunities.org/ An information clearinghouse and communication forum dedicated to building inclusive communities and to successfully siting affordable housing and community services. |
 Parole - http://parole.aporee.org/ A thesaraus of modern concepts in urban development. For each there is a definition, bibliography and its source publication. |
 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. |
 Land Use Law - http://law.wustl.edu/landuselaw/ Includes articles, cases, ordinances, statutes, and photographs from Professor Daniel R. Mandelker of Washington University. |
 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. |
 Neighborhood Planning - http://www.neighborhoodplanning.org/ Educational resource for understanding and improving neighborhoods. Includes a number of detailed examinations of topical issues. |
 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. |
 Occupational Outlook Handbook: Urban and Regional Planners - http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos057.htm Career profile from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
 Space.City - http://space-city.net/ Seattle, Washington-based nonprofit hosts lectures and events on architecture, public art, and urbanism. |
 Urbanicity - http://www.urbanicity.us/ An introduction to the concept of urbanicity. |
 Planum - 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Cyburbia - http://www.cyburbia.org/ Planning resource center includes a detailed resource directory, numerous message boards, a wiki, and image galleries. |
 Cyburbia Forums - http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/external.php?type=rss Discussions about planning, cities, and the built environment. |
 Urban Planning Topics - http://www3.sympatico.ca/david.macleod/UTOPS.HTM Dedicated to providing information and resources on urban and regional planning and environmental issues. |
 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. |
 Think - http://www.think08.co.uk/ An annual conference at ExCeL London about sustainability in the built environment. |
 Urban Age - http://www.urban-age.net/ International conference series on the future of cities. Conference information, archives, foci, and networking. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |