Urban and Regional Planning
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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.
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- Big Box Reuse
- Julia Christensen studies and explores how communities reuse empty big box buildings. Case studies, articles, and presentation schedule.
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- 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.
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- CityMayors
- News about the world's cities and how their mayors are dealing with today's urban issues.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Europaforum Wien
- 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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- Neighborhood Planning
- Educational resource for understanding and improving neighborhoods. Includes a number of detailed examinations of topical issues.
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- 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.
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- Ordinance.com
- Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and similar services. Registration required.
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- 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.
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- Planning Help
- Campaign to Protect Rural England project provides information on how citizens can influence local planning decisions.
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- Planning Resource
- UK planning portal. Includes news, employment, appeals, education, documents, consultants directory, and forum.
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- Planum
- 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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- The KunstlerCast: The Tragic Comedy of Suburban Sprawl
- A weekly podcast about suburban sprawl, the end of cheap oil and urban planning. Featuring James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Geography of Nowhere."
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- The Mayors' Institute on City Design
- Works to transform mayors into advocates for good design by hosting symposiums on urban design.
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- The Smarter Land Use Project
- 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
- An examination of issues in modern urban development and its influence on the lives of urban dwellers.