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• - Virtual community centered on urban planning issues, including race, class, and gender. List-serv, gallery, links.
  
• - Papers on the nature of public space and profiles of progressive urban areas.
  
• - Promotes the creation and restoration of compact, walkable, safe, mixed-use cities, towns, and neighborhoods through a continuing series of conferences.
  
• - Providing information about land use issues and sustainable land development.
  
• - Network of journalists, speakers and advisers committed to competitive, equitable and sustainable 21st century metropolitan regions.
  
• - A project of the Reason Public Policy Institute. Promotes voluntary, private-sector and market-oriented solutions to sprawl and other urban problems.
  
• - Provides annual award for urban excellence and forums for the discussion of issues related to urban architecture, planning, and revitalization.
  
• - An online community and resource for architects, urban designers, landscape architects, planners, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world.
  
• - A collection of essays covering urban and suburban design, transportation modalities, habitat preservation, urban farming, and social and environmental economics.
  
• - Non-profit engaged in the exchange of information on urban and rural regeneration and development, primarily in the UK.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A thesaraus of modern concepts in urban development. For each there is a definition, bibliography and its source publication.
  
• - Covers topics on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean.
  
• - Government gateway to planning information throughout the UK. Provides information on plans, appeals, applications, contact details, research areas.
  
• - Dedicated to providing information and resources on urban and regional planning and environmental issues.
  
• - LUPIN (Land Use Planning Information Network) is an information service that supports and addresses California land use planning issues via the CERES web.
  
• - Victoria, British Columbia-based organization using mapping as a tool to get citizens involved in planning.
  
• - Urban projects, ideas, and plans. Virtual tour in ghetto spaces, urban planning students network and philosophy for the Urban Planning Department of Columbia.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A movement to halt sprawl and improve the economy, environment, and quality of life. Home to the Elm Street Writers Group.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Providing city and county profiles and codes, articles on a wide range of subjects affecting municpalities, a database of state court opinions, the administrative code and statutes, directories, news, and links.
  
• - An introduction to the planning process prepared by the League of Women Voters.
  
• - Information about European funded regional and urban development, innovation, and planning tools and strategies.
  
• - Focuses on improving the quality of proposed developments in settled areas. Includes a citizens guidebook for achieving effective collaboration.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Includes articles, cases, ordinances, statutes, and photographs from Professor Daniel R. Mandelker of Washington University.
  
• - 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.
  
• - UK planning portal. Includes news, employment, appeals, education, documents, consultants directory, and forum.
  
• - Collects and disseminates information on Montreal's indoor and underground city. In French and English.
  
• - Employment opportunities for planning professionals, with a focus on Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
  
• - Inspiration, ideas and support for creative community involvement in urban design
  
• - Job postings and links to planning employers.
  
• - Information on planning, conducting, and implementing results from design charettes.
  
• - An introduction to the concept of urbanicity.
  
• - Fosters the design of quality places in the Kansas City, Missouri area. Includes principles, case studies, tools, and a forum.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Offers support and guidance on conservation area management, traffic and visitor management, urban regeneration and design, and other planning issues.
  
• - Analyzes policies, conducts public dialogues, organizes conferences, and publishes works on urban issues in the European Union. In German and English.
  
• - An internet clearinghouse providing instant access to information about real estate and land use through our network of webpages.
  
• - Provides construction status of building and planning projects, public meeting information, and links about Providence, Rhode Island.
  
• - Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and similar services. Registration required.
  
• - An examination of issues in modern urban development and its influence on the lives of urban dwellers.
  
• - An urban design collaborative devoted to bridging the gap between the traditional development process and the community.
  
• - News about the world's cities and how their mayors are dealing with today's urban issues.
  
• - Documents abandonment of the built environment and speculates on geographic, sociological, ecological, and architectural factors. Most examples are in St. Louis, Missouri.
  
• - Explore a virtual new urbanist neighborhood. Includes comparisons to typical suburban developments, lesson plans, links, and an image gallery.
  
• - Civic research group that identifies and documents strategies for creating strong communities.
  
• - Annual Dutch lecture series. Includes full text archives from prior years.
  
• - An information clearinghouse and communication forum dedicated to building inclusive communities and to successfully siting affordable housing and community services.
  
• - Connects citizens with resources to implement innovative processes and programs to restore the economic, environmental, and social health and vitality of their communities.
  
• - A non-profit organization dedicated to achieving a sustainable future for San Francisco.
  
• - Nonprofit technical assistance, research, and educational organization whose mission is to create and sustain public places that build communities.
  
• - An independent network of professionals and academics developing multidisciplinary methods, strategies, and techniques for cities in transition.
  
• - 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 study of social capital in urban blocks of Lansing, Michigan demonstrating its relationship to quality of life and social behavior.
  
• - An organization dedicated to building ecologically and socially healthy cities.
  
• - Seattle, Washington-based nonprofit hosts lectures and events on architecture, public art, and urbanism.
  
• - Promotes good planning and government through research, analysis, public education, and advocacy.
  
• - Career profile from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  
• - Reports, analysis, commentary, special features, and books from The Brookings Institution.
  
• - Goal is to provide the bioregional community with a daily source of the news they need to create a conservation based economy.
  
• - Strategies and guidelines for building safer communities through good design.
  
• - International conference series on the future of cities. Conference information, archives, foci, and networking.
  
• - Worldwide organization supporting traditional architecture, urbanism, and crafts through education and advocacy.
  
• - A nonprofit organization working to build livable communities. Covers topics including community design, economic development, sustainable energy sources, transportation, and waste prevention.
  
• - Companion site to PBS program includes core concepts, interviews, discussions, criticisms, comparisons, and examples.
  
• - Promotes and explores urban issues through photography.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Works to transform mayors into advocates for good design by hosting symposiums on urban design.
  
• - Urbanist message boards with areas for general and regional discussions.
  
• - A searchable database of key events in the history of new urbanism, as well as historical influences.
  
• - Selected European planning journals, an extensive planning web guide, archives of plans, and events from the town and regional planning world.
  
• - Campaign to Protect Rural England project provides information on how citizens can influence local planning decisions.
  
• - An overview provided by the Cornell Law School.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Encyclopedia entry covers planning's role in aesthetics, safety, transportation, suburbanization, and the environment. Includes lists of famous planners and planned communities.
  
• - Nonprofit helps to creating livable communities by by promoting quality of life, economic development, and social equity.
  
• - Free online guide to the U.K. town planning system. Lodge an appeal and review development plans.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Information about the mobility habits of urban people including urban planning, transportation planning and psycho-social habits. Based on several German studies.
  
• - A collection of photo essays illustrating aspects of public space, collective memory, urban design, and architecture.
  
• - Profiles, news, and commentary for the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan region.
  
• - A San Francisco based non-profit organization that works with architects, developers, and planners, teaching how to implement the principles of new urbanism.
  
• - Educational resource for understanding and improving neighborhoods. Includes a number of detailed examinations of topical issues.
  
• - Presents categorized information and maps of Ireland's physical, social, and enterprise infrastructure.
  
• - An Asia-Pacific regional network of local authorities, with an agenda empahsizing urban development.