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Web Sites in Category Urban and Regional Planning
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Periferia - Covers topics on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean.

Planetizen TechTalk - Group weblog examining innovative applications of technology in planning, GIS, and e-government.

Planetizen: Announcements - Information on RFPs, RFQs, conferences, educational opportunities, press releases, and other current events.

Planetizen: Jobs - Current job postings.

Planetizen: News - Links to planning news, reports, and editorials in the media.

Planetizen: Radar - Automatically updated collection of syndicated planning content.

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 Portal - Government gateway to planning information throughout the UK. Provides information on plans, appeals, applications, contact details, research areas.

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.

Project for Public Spaces - Nonprofit technical assistance, research, and educational organization whose mission is to create and sustain public places that build communities.

Radical Urban Theory - Writings on the modern urban condition.

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.

Skunklove - Weblog on city life that covers topics including urban design, planning, sociology, and public art.

Skunklove - Weblog on city life that covers topics including urban design, planning, sociology, and public art.

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.

Suburbia Project - A collection of essays covering urban and suburban design, transportation modalities, habitat preservation, urban farming, and social and environmental economics.

Sustainable City - A non-profit organization dedicated to achieving a sustainable future for San Francisco.

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.

Sustainable Development Center - U.S. Department of Energy's Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development website.

The Land Centre - An internet clearinghouse providing instant access to information about real estate and land use through our network of webpages.

The Mayors' Institute on City Design - Works to transform mayors into advocates for good design by hosting symposiums on urban design.

The Planning Exchange - Non-profit engaged in the exchange of information on urban and rural regeneration and development, primarily in the UK.

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.

This Land is Ours - An introduction to the planning process prepared by the League of Women Voters.

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.

Timeline of New Urbanism - A searchable database of key events in the history of new urbanism, as well as historical influences.

Urban and Regional Innovation Research Unit (Urenio) - Information about European funded regional and urban development, innovation, and planning tools and strategies.

Urban Ecology - An organization dedicated to building ecologically and socially healthy cities.

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 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 Photo - Grassroots website established in 1999 to promote urbanism and explore issues through photography.

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 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 Residue - Papers on the nature of public space and profiles of progressive urban areas.

Urbanicity - An introduction to the concept of urbanicity.

Urbanism.org - Blog reporting on architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, public art, suburbanism, and urbanism issues.

Urbanology - Urban projects, ideas, and plans. Virtual tour in ghetto spaces, urban planning students network and philosophy for the Urban Planning Department of Columbia.

urbanSimulation.com - A portal to the urban simulation community at the crossroads between urbanism and technology to visualize, analyze and simulated the built environment in 3D.

Village At - Providing information about land use issues and sustainable land development.

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.


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