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Jobs In Planning
Employment opportunities for planning professionals, with a focus on Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Community Planning Task Force Scotland
Community planning is a process where a local authority and other organisations come together to plan, provide and promote the well-being of their communities.
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.
Planum
Selected European planning journals, an extensive planning web guide, archives of plans, and events from the town and regional planning world.
Village At
Providing information about land use issues and sustainable land development.
Planning Resource
UK planning portal. Includes news, employment, appeals, education, documents, consultants directory, and forum.
Beyond Brilliance, Beyond Stupidity
A pair of weblogs showcasing positive and negative developments in urban planning, architecture and design.
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.
International Design and Environment Research Network
An independent network of professionals and academics developing multidisciplinary methods, strategies, and techniques for cities in transition.
Citistates Group
Network of journalists, speakers and advisers committed to competitive, equitable and sustainable 21st century metropolitan regions.
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.
Civil Pandemonium
Weblog for and by planning students at RMIT University in Victoria, Australia.
Parole
A thesaraus of modern concepts in urban development. For each there is a definition, bibliography and its source publication.
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 Planning Now
Job postings and links to planning employers.
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.
Aspects of Modern Geography
Information about the mobility habits of urban people including urban planning, transportation planning and psycho-social habits. Based on several German studies.
Los Angeles H* Urban Bureau
An urban design collaborative devoted to bridging the gap between the traditional development process and the community.
Timeline of New Urbanism
A searchable database of key events in the history of new urbanism, as well as historical influences.
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.
Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
Reports, analysis, commentary, special features, and books from The Brookings Institution.
Urban Planet
Urbanist message boards with areas for general and regional discussions.
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.
Neighborhood Planning for Community Revitalization
Minnesota organization working to build partnerships between community-based organizations and local colleges and universities around community building activities.
Architectulation = Architecture + Articulation
Weblog on urban design, architecture, social issues, and city life, with an emphasis on London and Seoul.
Urbanplanning.it
Provides links to current planning news.
Common Ground - Community Mapping Project
Victoria, British Columbia-based organization using mapping as a tool to get citizens involved in planning.
International Making Cities Livable
Promotes the creation and restoration of compact, walkable, safe, mixed-use cities, towns, and neighborhoods through a continuing series of conferences.
Urban Ecology
An organization dedicated to building ecologically and socially healthy cities.
Congress for New Urbanism
A San Francisco based non-profit organization that works with architects, developers, and planners, teaching how to implement the principles of new urbanism.
The Social Life of Cities
A collection of photo essays illustrating aspects of public space, collective memory, urban design, and architecture.
Planetizen
A public-interest information exchange for the urban planning and development community. Urban planning and development news, job opportunities, commentary and events.
The Land Centre
An internet clearinghouse providing instant access to information about real estate and land use through our network of webpages.
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.
Urban Planning Topics
Dedicated to providing information and resources on urban and regional planning and environmental issues.
Planning Portal
Government gateway to planning information throughout the UK. Provides information on plans, appeals, applications, contact details, research areas.
Urbanology
Urban projects, ideas, and plans. Virtual tour in ghetto spaces, urban planning students network and philosophy for the Urban Planning Department of Columbia.
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.
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.
Local Government Commission
A nonprofit organization working to build livable communities. Covers topics including community design, economic development, sustainable energy sources, transportation, and waste prevention.
Planning-applications.co.uk
Free online guide to the U.K. town planning system. Lodge an appeal and review development plans.
Urban and Regional Innovation Research Unit (Urenio)
Information about European funded regional and urban development, innovation, and planning tools and strategies.
Sustainable Communities Network
Connects citizens with resources to implement innovative processes and programs to restore the economic, environmental, and social health and vitality of their communities.
Boom Town Bulletin
Categorized weblog featuring news about American downtowns. Updated daily.
Sustainable City
A non-profit organization dedicated to achieving a sustainable future for San Francisco.
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.
Europaforum Wien
Analyzes policies, conducts public dialogues, organizes conferences, and publishes works on urban issues in the European Union. In German and English.
Partners for Livable Communities
Nonprofit helps to creating livable communities by by promoting quality of life, economic development, and social equity.
Michigan Land Use Institute
A movement to halt sprawl and improve the economy, environment, and quality of life. Home to the Elm Street Writers Group.
The Social Developer
An examination of issues in modern urban development and its influence on the lives of urban dwellers.
CityMayors
News about the world's cities and how their mayors are dealing with today's urban issues.
Creative Spaces
Inspiration, ideas and support for creative community involvement in urban design
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
Strategies and guidelines for building safer communities through good design.
Urban Residue
Papers on the nature of public space and profiles of progressive urban areas.
Cyburbia
This planning resource center contains one of the most comprehensive directories on the Internet relevant to the land use planning. Also contains information about related mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups, and hosts several interactive message areas.
The Smarter Land Use Project
Focuses on improving the quality of proposed developments in settled areas. Includes a citizens guidebook for achieving effective collaboration.
Online NewsHour: New Urbanism
Companion site to PBS program includes core concepts, interviews, discussions, criticisms, comparisons, and examples.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Career profile of urban and regional planners from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Observatoire de la Ville Interieure
Collects and disseminates information on Montreal's indoor and underground city. In French and English.
Growth Management Toolbox
Site was created by students at the University of Virginia, Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture to be useful to a broad audience, including both citizens and decision-makers from across the country.
City Comforts Blog
Weblog examining urban issues from a mildly libertarian standpoint.
Cyberhood
Virtual community centered on urban planning issues, including race, class, and gender. List-serv, gallery, links.
Planning Help
Campaign to Protect Rural England project provides information on how citizens can influence local planning decisions.
CityNet
An Asia-Pacific regional network of local authorities, with an agenda empahsizing urban development.
Urbanism.org
Blog reporting on architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, public art, suburbanism, and urbanism issues.
Building Providence
Provides construction status of building and planning projects, public meeting information, and links about Providence, Rhode Island.
Creating Quality Places
Fosters the design of quality places in the Kansas City, Missouri area. Includes principles, case studies, tools, and a forum.
Infrastructure.ie
Presents categorized information and maps of Ireland's physical, social, and enterprise infrastructure.
Urban Photo
Grassroots website established in 1999 to promote urbanism and explore issues through photography.
Suburbia Project
A collection of essays covering urban and suburban design, transportation modalities, habitat preservation, urban farming, and social and environmental economics.
Urban Futures
A project of the Reason Public Policy Institute. Promotes voluntary, private-sector and market-oriented solutions to sprawl and other urban problems.
CharretteCenter.net
Information on planning, conducting, and implementing results from design charettes.
Ordinance.com
Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and similar services. Registration required.
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.
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.
Periferia
Covers topics on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean.
Megacities
Annual Dutch lecture series. Includes full text archives from prior years.
National Geographic - The New Suburb?
Explore a virtual new urbanist neighborhood. Includes comparisons to typical suburban developments, lesson plans, links, and an image gallery.
Urbanicity
An introduction to the concept of urbanicity.
Land Use Law
An overview provided by the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute.
Project for Public Spaces
Nonprofit technical assistance, research, and educational organization whose mission is to create and sustain public places that build communities.
Pew Partnership for Civic Change
Civic research group that identifies and documents strategies for creating strong communities.
Building Better Communities Network
An information clearinghouse and communication forum dedicated to building inclusive communities and to successfully siting affordable housing and community services.
European Port Cities
A partnership of universities and non-government organizations conducting research and developing plans for disadvantaged areas of Algeciras, Ceuta, Dublin, Hamburg, London, and Thessaloniki.
National League of Cities
The nation's oldest and largest resource for advocacy and research on issues affecting American cities and towns.
Metropolis
An international association of global cities working towards developing solutions to issues affecting large cities such as urban planning and development, the economy, the environment, transport, infrastructure and communications.
ArchNet
An online community and resource for architects, urban designers, landscape architects, planners, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world.
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.
The Planning Exchange
Non-profit engaged in the exchange of information on urban and rural regeneration and development, primarily in the UK.
The Mayors' Institute on City Design
Works to transform mayors into advocates for good design by hosting symposiums on urban design.
This Land is Ours
An introduction to the planning process prepared by the League of Women Voters.
Bruner Foundation
Provides annual award for urban excellence and forums for the discussion of issues related to urban architecture, planning, and revitalization.
Employment opportunities for planning professionals, with a focus on Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Community planning is a process where a local authority and other organisations come together to plan, provide and promote the well-being of their communities.
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.
Selected European planning journals, an extensive planning web guide, archives of plans, and events from the town and regional planning world.
Providing information about land use issues and sustainable land development.
UK planning portal. Includes news, employment, appeals, education, documents, consultants directory, and forum.
A pair of weblogs showcasing positive and negative developments in urban planning, architecture and design.
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.
An independent network of professionals and academics developing multidisciplinary methods, strategies, and techniques for cities in transition.
Network of journalists, speakers and advisers committed to competitive, equitable and sustainable 21st century metropolitan regions.
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.
Weblog for and by planning students at RMIT University in Victoria, Australia.
A thesaraus of modern concepts in urban development. For each there is a definition, bibliography and its source publication.
Goal is to provide the bioregional community with a daily source of the news they need to create a conservation based economy.
Job postings and links to planning employers.
Encyclopedia entry covers planning's role in aesthetics, safety, transportation, suburbanization, and the environment. Includes lists of famous planners and planned communities.
Information about the mobility habits of urban people including urban planning, transportation planning and psycho-social habits. Based on several German studies.
An urban design collaborative devoted to bridging the gap between the traditional development process and the community.
A searchable database of key events in the history of new urbanism, as well as historical influences.
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.
Reports, analysis, commentary, special features, and books from The Brookings Institution.
Urbanist message boards with areas for general and regional discussions.
LUPIN (Land Use Planning Information Network) is an information service that supports and addresses California land use planning issues via the CERES web.
Minnesota organization working to build partnerships between community-based organizations and local colleges and universities around community building activities.
Architectulation = Architecture + ArticulationWeblog on urban design, architecture, social issues, and city life, with an emphasis on London and Seoul.
Provides links to current planning news.
Victoria, British Columbia-based organization using mapping as a tool to get citizens involved in planning.
Promotes the creation and restoration of compact, walkable, safe, mixed-use cities, towns, and neighborhoods through a continuing series of conferences.
An organization dedicated to building ecologically and socially healthy cities.
A San Francisco based non-profit organization that works with architects, developers, and planners, teaching how to implement the principles of new urbanism.
A collection of photo essays illustrating aspects of public space, collective memory, urban design, and architecture.
A public-interest information exchange for the urban planning and development community. Urban planning and development news, job opportunities, commentary and events.
An internet clearinghouse providing instant access to information about real estate and land use through our network of webpages.
A study of social capital in urban blocks of Lansing, Michigan demonstrating its relationship to quality of life and social behavior.
Dedicated to providing information and resources on urban and regional planning and environmental issues.
Government gateway to planning information throughout the UK. Provides information on plans, appeals, applications, contact details, research areas.
Urban projects, ideas, and plans. Virtual tour in ghetto spaces, urban planning students network and philosophy for the Urban Planning Department of Columbia.
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.
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.
A nonprofit organization working to build livable communities. Covers topics including community design, economic development, sustainable energy sources, transportation, and waste prevention.
Free online guide to the U.K. town planning system. Lodge an appeal and review development plans.
Information about European funded regional and urban development, innovation, and planning tools and strategies.
Connects citizens with resources to implement innovative processes and programs to restore the economic, environmental, and social health and vitality of their communities.
Categorized weblog featuring news about American downtowns. Updated daily.
A non-profit organization dedicated to achieving a sustainable future for San Francisco.
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.
Analyzes policies, conducts public dialogues, organizes conferences, and publishes works on urban issues in the European Union. In German and English.
Nonprofit helps to creating livable communities by by promoting quality of life, economic development, and social equity.
A movement to halt sprawl and improve the economy, environment, and quality of life. Home to the Elm Street Writers Group.
An examination of issues in modern urban development and its influence on the lives of urban dwellers.
News about the world's cities and how their mayors are dealing with today's urban issues.
Inspiration, ideas and support for creative community involvement in urban design
Strategies and guidelines for building safer communities through good design.
Papers on the nature of public space and profiles of progressive urban areas.
This planning resource center contains one of the most comprehensive directories on the Internet relevant to the land use planning. Also contains information about related mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups, and hosts several interactive message areas.
Focuses on improving the quality of proposed developments in settled areas. Includes a citizens guidebook for achieving effective collaboration.
Companion site to PBS program includes core concepts, interviews, discussions, criticisms, comparisons, and examples.
Career profile of urban and regional planners from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Collects and disseminates information on Montreal's indoor and underground city. In French and English.
Site was created by students at the University of Virginia, Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture to be useful to a broad audience, including both citizens and decision-makers from across the country.
Weblog examining urban issues from a mildly libertarian standpoint.
Virtual community centered on urban planning issues, including race, class, and gender. List-serv, gallery, links.
Campaign to Protect Rural England project provides information on how citizens can influence local planning decisions.
An Asia-Pacific regional network of local authorities, with an agenda empahsizing urban development.
Blog reporting on architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, public art, suburbanism, and urbanism issues.
Provides construction status of building and planning projects, public meeting information, and links about Providence, Rhode Island.
Fosters the design of quality places in the Kansas City, Missouri area. Includes principles, case studies, tools, and a forum.
Presents categorized information and maps of Ireland's physical, social, and enterprise infrastructure.
Grassroots website established in 1999 to promote urbanism and explore issues through photography.
A collection of essays covering urban and suburban design, transportation modalities, habitat preservation, urban farming, and social and environmental economics.
A project of the Reason Public Policy Institute. Promotes voluntary, private-sector and market-oriented solutions to sprawl and other urban problems.
Information on planning, conducting, and implementing results from design charettes.
Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and similar services. Registration required.
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.
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.
Covers topics on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean.
Annual Dutch lecture series. Includes full text archives from prior years.
Explore a virtual new urbanist neighborhood. Includes comparisons to typical suburban developments, lesson plans, links, and an image gallery.
An introduction to the concept of urbanicity.
An overview provided by the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute.
Nonprofit technical assistance, research, and educational organization whose mission is to create and sustain public places that build communities.
Civic research group that identifies and documents strategies for creating strong communities.
An information clearinghouse and communication forum dedicated to building inclusive communities and to successfully siting affordable housing and community services.
A partnership of universities and non-government organizations conducting research and developing plans for disadvantaged areas of Algeciras, Ceuta, Dublin, Hamburg, London, and Thessaloniki.
The nation's oldest and largest resource for advocacy and research on issues affecting American cities and towns.
An international association of global cities working towards developing solutions to issues affecting large cities such as urban planning and development, the economy, the environment, transport, infrastructure and communications.
An online community and resource for architects, urban designers, landscape architects, planners, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world.
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.
Non-profit engaged in the exchange of information on urban and rural regeneration and development, primarily in the UK.
Works to transform mayors into advocates for good design by hosting symposiums on urban design.
An introduction to the planning process prepared by the League of Women Voters.
Provides annual award for urban excellence and forums for the discussion of issues related to urban architecture, planning, and revitalization.
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