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.
Aspects of Modern Geography - Information about the mobility habits of urban people including urban planning, transportation planning and psycho-social habits. Based on several German studies.
Beyond Brilliance, Beyond Stupidity - A pair of weblogs showcasing positive and negative developments in urban planning, architecture and design.
Building Better Communities Network - An information clearinghouse and communication forum dedicated to building inclusive communities and to successfully siting affordable housing and community services.
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.
Citistates Group - Network of journalists, speakers and advisers committed to competitive, equitable and sustainable 21st century metropolitan regions.
City Comforts Blog - Weblog examining urban issues from a mildly libertarian standpoint.
CityMayors - News about the world's cities and how their mayors are dealing with today's urban issues.
CityNet - An Asia-Pacific regional network of local authorities, with an agenda empahsizing urban development.
Civil Pandemonium - Weblog for and by planning students at RMIT University in Victoria, Australia.
Community Initiatives - 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.
Community Planning Task Force Scotland - 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.
Congress for New Urbanism - A San Francisco based non-profit organization that works with architects, developers, and planners, teaching how to implement the principles of new urbanism.
Creative Spaces - Inspiration, ideas and support for creative community involvement in urban design
Cyberhood - Virtual community centered on urban planning issues, including race, class, and gender. List-serv, gallery, links.
Cyburbia - 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.
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.
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.
Growth Management Toolbox - Site was created by students at the University of Virginia, Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture to be useful to a broad audience, including both citizens and decision-makers from across the country.
Infrastructure.ie - Presents categorized information and maps of Ireland’s physical, social, and enterprise infrastructure.
The Land Centre - An internet clearinghouse providing instant access to information about real estate and land use through our network of webpages.
Land Use Law - An overview provided by the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute.
Land Use Planning Information Network - An information system developed by the California Resources Agency to facilitate access to a variety of electronic data describing California's rich and diverse environments.
Local Government Commission - A nonprofit organization working to build livable communities. Covers topics including community design, economic development, sustainable energy sources, transportation, and waste prevention.
Los Angeles H* Urban Bureau - An urban design collaborative devoted to bridging the gap between the traditional development process and the community.
Megacities - Annual Dutch lecture series. Includes full text archives from prior years.
Metropolis - 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.
Michigan Land Use Institute - A movement to halt sprawl and improve the economy, environment, and quality of life. Home to the Elm Street Writers Group.
National Geographic - The New Suburb? - Explore a virtual new urbanist neighborhood. Includes comparisons to typical suburban developments, lesson plans, links, and an image gallery.
National League of Cities - The nation's oldest and largest resource for advocacy and research on issues affecting American cities and towns.
Neighborhood Planning for Community Revitalization - Minnesota organization working to build partnerships between community-based organizations and local colleges and universities around community building activities.
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.
Occupational Outlook Handbook - Career profile of urban and regional planners from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Ordinance.com - Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and similar services. Registration requried.
Panchromatica - Weblog by British planner and consultant Ian Bertram.
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.
The Planning Exchange - Non-profit engaged in the exchange of information on urban and rural regeneration and development, primarily in the UK.
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
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.
Smart Growth for Tennessee Towns and Counties - This guide summarizes the basic steps in a smart growth visioning and planning process. It reviews techniques that can be used at each step.
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.
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.
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 Advantage - Digital technology can aid in visualizing growth options, allow wide sharing of those visions, and speed up the learning process to turn visions into reality.
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, 1794-1918 - An international anthology of articles, conference papers, and reports, this site consists of primary source material for the study of how urban planning developed up to the end of World War I.
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.
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.
- A public-interest information exchange for the urban planning and development community. Urban planning and development news, job opportunities, commentary and events.