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Ecology of Absence
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Documents abandonment of the built environment and speculates on geographic, sociological, ecological, and architectural factors. Most examples are in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Land Use Law
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Includes articles, cases, ordinances, statutes, and photographs from Professor Daniel R. Mandelker of Washington University.
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NodeWorks Encyclopedia: Urban Planning
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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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Online NewsHour: New Urbanism
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Companion site to PBS program includes core concepts, interviews, discussions, criticisms, comparisons, and examples.
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People in Place
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Conference in Melbourne, Australia examines creative, livable, and innovative cities. Registration, program, speaker profiles, news, and press information.
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Planning and Regulatory Services Online (PARSOL)
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National United Kingdom program providing planning and regulatory standards, toolkits, specifications, schemas, and systems for use by local governments.
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Planning Help
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Campaign to Protect Rural England project provides information on how citizens can influence local planning decisions.
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Space.City
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Seattle, Washington-based nonprofit hosts lectures and events on architecture, public art, and urbanism.
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The Orange Empire of Southern California
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Profiles, news, and commentary for the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan region.
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Tidepool
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Environmental, community, and economic news for the bioregional community of western North America.
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Urban Planet
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Urbanist message boards with areas for general and regional discussions.
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Urbanicity
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An introduction to the concept of urbanicity.
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ArchNet
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An online community and resource for architects, urban designers, landscape architects, planners, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world.
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Big Box Reuse
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Julia Christensen studies and explores how communities reuse empty big box buildings. Case studies, articles, and presentation schedule.
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Building Better Communities Network
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An information clearinghouse and communication forum dedicated to building inclusive communities and to successfully siting affordable housing and community services.
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California Land Use Planning Network
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LUPIN (Land Use Planning Information Network) is an information service that supports and addresses California land use planning issues via the CERES web.
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Center for Land Use Interpretation
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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.
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Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
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Reports, analysis, commentary, special features, and books from The Brookings Institution.
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CharretteCenter.net
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Information on planning, conducting, and implementing results from design charettes.
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CityMayors
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News about the world's cities and how their mayors are dealing with today's urban issues.
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Creative Spaces
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Inspiration, ideas and support for creative community involvement in urban design
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Cyburbia
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Planning resource center includes a detailed resource directory, numerous message boards, a wiki, and image galleries.
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Ecosystem Anthologies: Land Use
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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.
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Europaforum Wien
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Analyzes policies, conducts public dialogues, organizes conferences, and publishes works on urban issues in the European Union. In German and English.
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Great Streets!
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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.
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Jobs In Planning
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Employment opportunities for planning professionals, with a focus on Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
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Legal Information Institute: Land Use Law
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An overview provided by the Cornell Law School.
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Megacities
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Annual Dutch lecture series. Includes full text archives from prior years.
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National Geographic - The New Suburb?
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Explore a virtual new urbanist neighborhood. Includes comparisons to typical suburban developments, lesson plans, links, and an image gallery.
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Neighborhood Planning
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Educational resource for understanding and improving neighborhoods. Includes a number of detailed examinations of topical issues.
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New Urbanism
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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.
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Observatoire de la Ville Interieure
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Collects and disseminates information on Montreal's indoor and underground city. In French and English.
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Occupational Outlook Handbook: Urban and Regional Planners
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Career profile from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Ordinance.com
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Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and similar services. Registration required.
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Parole
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A thesaraus of modern concepts in urban development. For each there is a definition, bibliography and its source publication.
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Periferia
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Covers topics on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean.
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Planetizen
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A public-interest information exchange for the urban planning and development community. Urban planning and development news, job opportunities, commentary and events.
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PlannersWeb
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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.
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Planning Portal
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Government gateway to planning information throughout the UK. Provides information on plans, appeals, applications, contact details, research areas.
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Planning Resource
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UK planning portal. Includes news, employment, appeals, education, documents, consultants directory, and forum.
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Planning-applications.co.uk
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Free online guide to the U.K. town planning system. Lodge an appeal and review development plans.
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Planum
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Selected European planning journals, an extensive planning web guide, archives of plans, and events from the town and regional planning world.
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Resource for Urban Design Information
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Multimedia resource for teaching, research, and professional activity in urban design and its related disciplines.
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Sense of Community Project
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A study of social capital in urban blocks of Lansing, Michigan demonstrating its relationship to quality of life and social behavior.
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Smart City
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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.
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The Land Centre
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An internet clearinghouse providing information about Canadian real estate and land use.
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The Mayors' Institute on City Design
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Works to transform mayors into advocates for good design by hosting symposiums on urban design.
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The Smarter Land Use Project
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Focuses on improving the quality of proposed developments in settled areas. Includes a citizens guidebook for achieving effective collaboration.
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The Social Developer
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An examination of issues in modern urban development and its influence on the lives of urban dwellers.
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Timeline of New Urbanism
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A searchable database of key events in the history of new urbanism, as well as historical influences.
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Urban Age
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International conference series on the future of cities. Conference information, archives, foci, and networking.
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Urban Environmental Management
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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.
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Urban Futures
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A project of the Reason Public Policy Institute. Promotes voluntary, private-sector and market-oriented solutions to sprawl and other urban problems.
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Urban Photo
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Promotes and explores urban issues through photography.
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Urban Planning Now
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Job postings and links to planning employers.
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Urban Planning Topics
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Dedicated to providing information and resources on urban and regional planning and environmental issues.
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Urban Planning, 1794-1918
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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.
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Urban Residue
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Papers on the nature of public space and profiles of progressive urban areas.
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Urbanology
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Urban projects, ideas, and plans. Virtual tour in ghetto spaces, urban planning students network and philosophy for the Urban Planning Department of Columbia.
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