- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 UK 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.
- Space.City - Seattle, Washington-based nonprofit hosts lectures and events on architecture, public art, and urbanism.
- The Mayors' Institute on City Design - Works to transform mayors into advocates for good design by hosting symposiums on urban design.
- 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.
- Think - An annual conference at ExCeL London about sustainability in the built environment.
- 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 Now - Job postings and links to planning employers.
- 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 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.
XML-feeds
- Cyburbia Forums (RSS) - Discussions about planning, cities, and the built environment.
- Planetizen: Announcements (RSS) - Information on RFPs, RFQs, conferences, educational opportunities, press releases, and other current events.
- Planetizen: Jobs (RSS) - Current job postings.
- Planetizen: News (RSS) - Links to planning news, reports, and editorials in the media.
- Planetizen: Radar (RSS) - Automatically updated collection of syndicated planning content.
