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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.

• ArchNet - An online community and resource for architects, urban designers, landscape architects, planners, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world.
• Big Box Reuse - Julia Christensen studies and explores how communities reuse empty big box buildings. Case studies, articles, and presentation schedule.
• Building Better Communities Network - An information clearinghouse and communication forum dedicated to building inclusive communities and to successfully siting affordable housing and community services.
• 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.
• 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.
• CharretteCenter.net - Information on planning, conducting, and implementing results from design charettes.
• CityMayors - News about the world's cities and how their mayors are dealing with today's urban issues.
• Cyburbia - Planning resource center includes a detailed resource directory, numerous message boards, a wiki, and image galleries.
• 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.
• 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.
• Europaforum Wien - Analyzes policies, conducts public dialogues, organizes conferences, and publishes works on urban issues in the European Union. In German and English.
• 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.
• Jobs In Planning - Employment opportunities for planning professionals, with a focus on Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
• Land Use Law - Includes articles, cases, ordinances, statutes, and photographs from Professor Daniel R. Mandelker of Washington University.
• Legal Information Institute: Land Use Law - An overview provided by the Cornell Law School.
• The Mayors' Institute on City Design - Works to transform mayors into advocates for good design by hosting symposiums on urban design.
• 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.
• Neighborhood Planning - Educational resource for understanding and improving neighborhoods. Includes a number of detailed examinations of topical issues.
• 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.
• Observatoire de la Ville Interieure - Collects and disseminates information on Montreal's indoor and underground city. In French and English.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook: Urban and Regional Planners - Career profile from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• Online NewsHour: New Urbanism - Companion site to PBS program includes core concepts, interviews, discussions, criticisms, comparisons, and examples.
• The Orange Empire of Southern California - Profiles, news, and commentary for the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan region.
• Ordinance.com - Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and similar services. Registration required.
• Parole - A thesaraus of modern concepts in urban development. For each there is a definition, bibliography and its source publication.
• Periferia - Covers topics on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean.
• 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.
• 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.
• Planning Help - Campaign to Protect Rural England project provides information on how citizens can influence local planning decisions.
• Planning Portal - Government gateway to planning information throughout the UK. Provides information on plans, appeals, applications, contact details, research areas.
• Planning Resource - UK planning portal. Includes news, employment, appeals, education, documents, consultants directory, and forum.
• Planning-applications.co.uk - Free online guide to the U.K. town planning system. Lodge an appeal and review development plans.
• Planum - Selected European planning journals, an extensive planning web guide, archives of plans, and events from the town and regional planning world.
• Resource for Urban Design Information - Multimedia resource for teaching, research, and professional activity in urban design and its related disciplines.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Smarter Land Use Project - Focuses on improving the quality of proposed developments in settled areas. Includes a citizens guidebook for achieving effective collaboration.
• The Social Developer - An examination of issues in modern urban development and its influence on the lives of urban dwellers.
• The Social Life of Cities - A collection of photo essays illustrating aspects of public space, collective memory, urban design, and architecture.
• Space.City - Seattle, Washington-based nonprofit hosts lectures and events on architecture, public art, and urbanism.
• Tidepool - Environmental, community, and economic news for the bioregional community of western North America.
• Timeline of New Urbanism - A searchable database of key events in the history of new urbanism, as well as historical influences.
• Urban Age - International conference series on the future of cities. Conference information, archives, foci, and networking.
• 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.
• Urban Futures - A project of the Reason Public Policy Institute. Promotes voluntary, private-sector and market-oriented solutions to sprawl and other urban problems.
• Urban Photo - Promotes and explores urban issues through photography.
• Urban Planet - Urbanist message boards with areas for general and regional discussions.
• 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.
• Urban Planning Now - Job postings and links to planning employers.
• Urban Planning Topics - Dedicated to providing information and resources on urban and regional planning and environmental issues.
• Urban Residue - Papers on the nature of public space and profiles of progressive urban areas.
• Urbanicity - An introduction to the concept of urbanicity.
• Urbanology - Urban projects, ideas, and plans. Virtual tour in ghetto spaces, urban planning students network and philosophy for the Urban Planning Department of Columbia.
• 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.

• Cyburbia Forums - Discussions about planning, cities, and the built environment. [RSS]
• Planetizen: Announcements - Information on RFPs, RFQs, conferences, educational opportunities, press releases, and other current events. [RSS]
• Planetizen: Jobs - Current job postings. [RSS]
• Planetizen: News - Links to planning news, reports, and editorials in the media. [RSS]
• Planetizen: Radar - Automatically updated collection of syndicated planning content. [RSS]

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