Alambina: Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning - Annotated directory of resources and links on a variety of city and regional planning topics.
American Planning Association (APA) - organized to advance the art and science of urban and regional planning.
American Planning Association - Arizona Chapter - professional urban and rural planning organization.
American Planning Association - California Chapter
American Planning Association - Colorado Chapter - includes news, events, career center, and a bulletin board information for citizen planners and professionals.
American Planning Association - Iowa Chapter - professional organization for community planners.
American Planning Association - Kentucky Chapter - for urban planners and those interested in the growth and development of the state of Kentucky.
Another High Rise for Pensacola Beach? - About how developers and landowners are combining leases to circumvent zoning laws and over-burden a barrier island in Florida.
Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility - efforts are directed towards the protection of the natural and built environment, arms reduction, and socially responsible development.
Asia Institute of Technology - Urban Management Center
Ball State University
Best Practices Database - searchable database of solutions to the common social, economic, and environmental problems of urbanization.
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Canadian Institute of Planners
carfree.com - chronicles carfree cities of the past, present, and future. Also offers solutions to the problem of the urban automobile.
Center for Urban Policy and the Environment - public policy discourse and decision making through service, scholarly publications, and applied research.
Centre for Independent Transport Research in London (CILT) - A research and resource unit concerned with socially and environmentally sustainable urban transport.
Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development - devoted to promoting effective land use and urban planning. Offering a 3-course certificate through DePaul's Public Services Graduate Program.
City Journal - quarterly created to communicate to a broad and influential audience innovative ideas about restoring the quality of life to America's cities.
CityNet - promotes the exchange of expertise and experiences among various urban stakeholders, particularly local authorities and NGOs in the Asia-Pacific region.
Cityscape Institute - urban design resource for public space improvement focussing in design demonstration and the exchange of information.
Colloqui - Cornell Journal of Planning and Urban Issues. Presents planning issues from a wide range of social, political, economic, and geographic perspectives.
Community Plans - executive summaries of community needs, capabilities, and design schedules for cities across the nation provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Congress for the New Urbanism - advocates for the restructuring of public policy and development practices to support the restoration of existing urban centers and towns within coherent metropolitan regions.
Cosanti Foundation - not-for-profit educational organization devoted to the support of Paolo Soleri's noted architectural and urban planning research.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Handbook - details how the proper design and use of the built environment can lead to a reduction in the fear and incidence of crime.
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission
Cyburbia - offers feature articles, message boards, and a comprehensive directory of resources relevant to planning, architecture, and built environments.
Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley
Deutsches Institut fuer Urbanistik - identifying long-term prospects for urban development and providing expert advice to municipal authorities to help them solve their problems.
Dutch transportation planning in urban areas - Personal papers and reports about transportation planning. Topics include car free cities, transport innovations, planning infrastructure, public involvement, traffic calming. Source: Delft University of Technology. In Dutch, with some English content.
Eindhoven University of Technology - VIA Stedebouw - the Urban Planning group of the student organisation for Architecture, Building and Planning Cheops.
European Institute for Regional and Local Development - institute dealing with the economic, spatial, and sociological aspects of regional and local development.
Fair Growth Coalition - research and advocacy organization devoted to combating urban sprawl in Virginia.
Florida Atlantic University
Fort Walton Beach Metropolitan Planning Organization
Friends of Skagit County - nonprofit organization pushing for controlled development in the Skagit County area.
Golden Crescent Regional Planning Commission
Growth Management Institute (GMI) - goal is to educate and inform the public on responsible land use and related issues including sustainable urban development and redevelopment.
GSA Center for Urban Development - Seeks to leverage federal real estate actions in ways that bolster community efforts to encourage smart growth, economic vitality, and cultural vibrancy.
Hillside Developments - The Social Developer - An examination of issues in modern urban development and its influence on the lives of urban dwellers.
HUD User - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development information source for housing and community development researchers and policymakers. HUD USER is the primary source for Federal Government reports and information on housing policy and programs, building technology, economic development, urban planning, and other housing-related topics.
Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS) - New York University's Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS) develops resources and networks to interactively disseminate new knowledge toward improving the nation's infrastructure system.
International Making Cities Livable - interdisciplinary network of individuals and cities dedicated to making cities more livable, through conferences, publications, consulting, and teaching.
Joint Strategic Planning Unit - performs strategic planning functions on behalf of Berkshire unitary councils following abolition of the county council.
Kansas City Metro - professional planning organization.
Limiting Urban Futures - An attack on the future-scenario style of urban planning. In urban futures scenarios, the range of "acceptable" future cities is made visible. The Amsterdam (Netherlands) study TVA is used as an example of how such studies limit urban futures.
Links for Planners - includes socioeconomic, housing, and land use data provided by the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University.
London Planning Advisory Committee - LPAC - has a statutory responsibility to formulate strategic planning advice to local and central government in London.
Los Angeles Section - working to build better communities through urban planning.
Manchester, NH, Urban Open Space Website - Photoessays and information about urban open space problems such as excess development, urban sprawl, urban forests, urban wildlife, work of conservation commissions, and downtown improvement via American elm restoration.
Metro Chicago/Illinois Planners Network - provides volunteer urban planning assistance to communities and community organizations.
Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre - Studying urban geography and new city planning, and managing the heritage of Bradwell Abbey, in Buckinghamshire, England.
MitauBau Pages - 21st century town development plan for Jelgava, Latvia
MORPC (Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission) - assists local governments by providing an intergovernmental platform and process for regional issues such as water/sewer policy and community development.
Municipal World - Local Government Discussion Forum - On-line message board for discussion of topics of interest to municipal government, from zoning to taxation to school crossing guards.
Municipia - multilingual urban network for the integration of city planners and involved local actors, for exchanging best practices among European cities.
National Trust for Historic Preservation's National Main Street Center - national organization for the Main Street downtown revitalization program.
Neighborhood Planning for Community Revitalization - provides applied research assistance to neighborhood organizations.
New Planner - newsletter of the American Planning Association's student members at Georgia Tech provides articles and conference listing information.
New Urbanism Resource Index - resources for downtown revitalization, surburban sprawl, new urbanism supporters and critics, and more.
Nine Mile Run Project - working to create a transferable, inter-disciplinary process model for use in transforming urban brownfield sites into a sustainable environement.
Northwest Regional Planning Commission - planning and land use in northwestern Vermont.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Department of Town and Regional Planning
Noxious Neighbors - American Planning Association topical discussion of issues in rural planning and zoning. Focus on hog farms vs. residential neighbors.
Online Planning - explores the impact of Internet based communications on the planning process. Includes an exercise in VRML based public particiation and town planning.
Ordinance.com - Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and similar services. Registration requried.
Paradise Design - An award-winning, international design firm specializing in the design of New Urbanism projects of all sizes.
Paying for Our Growth in Oregon (POGO) - 80-page report outlining true public cost of growth resulting from a new single-family dwelling.
Paying for Urban Sprawl - Topical discussion by American Planning Association.
Pennsylvania Planning Association - membership organization for those working to improve communities through planning.
Philadelphia City Planning Commission - resource for planning, zoning, and community and economic development information.
Planners Network - For over 25 years, PN has been the voice of progressive planning, publishing a newsletter, holding annual conferences, and organizing local activities in cities throughout North America.
PlannersWeb - Planning Commissioners Journal site has resources for planning commissions and zoning boards. Topical material on zoning ordinances, land use, comprehensive plans, master plans, subdivision regulation, public meetings, NIMBYs, transportation, housing, urban design, takings and property rights, subdivision design, and the impacts of information technology on cities and towns.
Planning Institute of British Columbia - affiliate of the Canadian Institute of Planners representing B.C and the Yukon.
Planning Reports Center - A free Web-directory containing summaries of reports, ordinances, and videos from across the country dealing with land use planning, zoning, environmental, natural resource, transportation planning, and related topics. Site also provides convenient information for ordering all listed reports.
Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development - contains urban affairs news, portfolio of projects, and articles written by staff members.
Prostor: Architecture and Urban Planning Scientific Journal - Publishes scientific papers from all branches of architecture and urban planning as well as texts from related fields. Issued by Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Site in Croatian and English.
Proyecto Cities - Proyecto CITIES is a collective effort, focusing on some 20 cities located in five continents , to identify the competitive advantages of each, and to present the principal urban innovations that they are developing, especially those that impact on the physical form of the city and the structure of the metropolitan region.
Putnam County Planning Commission - purpose is to deliver quality planning and development plans and ideas to the business community.
Queen's University
Region 2020 - citizen-driven, regional visioning project to plan the future of the twelve-county Central Alabama area.
Regional Plan Association - focusing on urban planning issues and improving the lives of people living in NJ, CT and NY.
Resource for Urban Design Information (RUDI) - compilation of news, awards, and publications from the UK and beyond.
Royal Institute of Technology - research and education in the field or urban and regional planning as well as traffic and transportation planning.
Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence - recognizes those urban places which incorporate meaningful values, integrative processes, and good design.
Rural Resources - Consultants in rural community planning. Aim to provide a fully integrated approach to the sustainable management and development of the rural environment.
Ryerson Polytechnic University
San Francisco Planning and Urban Association (SPUR) - citizen/business coalition addressing public policy.
Shillam + Smith, architects and urban planners (U.K.) - Site has information about the practice's projects, as well as news, discussion and feedback on architecure and urban design issues.
Smart Growth Network - encourages development that is environmentally, fiscally, and economically smart and helps create national, regional, and local coalitions to support smart growth.
Stadt-Mobilitaet-Psyche, A geographer's homepage - Information about the mobility habits of urban people including urban planning, transportation planning and psycho-social habits, based on several studies published in Europe, Germany. Site language is Deutsch, with some material in English.
Student Planning Network - PlaNet is a network of planning students, consisting of 15 local groups in European cities. The central task is to foster co-operation and communication between European planning students. The highlight of every PlaNet-Year is the annual congress for planning students.
Swedish Urban Environment Council (Stadsmiljörådet) - initiates public and professional debate on current urban issues.
Territorial Planning and Management Institute - realizes research activities concerning the main sectors of Territorial Planning and Management, addressed to emerging topics related to innovative technologies usage.
Theme Parks - a critical theory approach to studying the impact of theme parks on urban life.
Toward Sustainable Communities - International Symposium, Quebec City, november 3-6 1999. - 21st Century Urban Issues and Sustainable Cities International Symposium. Renowned speakers from all over North America and Europe conveneupon topics of urban and regional planning, environmental issues, transportation, housing, energy efficiency.
Transparant Amsterdam - contains information on all existing spatial plans and the urbanistic future designs of the Amsterdam region.
ULI - The 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.
University Hill Corporation - not-for-profit organization providing consulting services to members about community management and development.
University of British Columbia - School of Community and Regional Planning - integrated policy and planning research, professional education, and community service.
University of California at Irvine
University of Dundee - School of Town & Regional Planning
University of Hawaii at Manoa - Urban and Regional Planning
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Contains background information on the department, including admisions, courses, faculty and events.
University of Iowas Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning - two-year master's degree program offering specialization in economic development, environmental planning, housing and community development, and transportation planning.
University of Kansas
University of New South Wales - offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in architecture, industrial design, building construction management, town planning, and more.
University of Newcastle - Centre for Urban Technology
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of the Philippines - School of Urban and Regional Planning
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Washington College of Architecture & Urban Planning
Urban Environmental Management - repository of information related to UEM issues, looking at urban areas as the intersection of natural, built, and socio-economic environments.
Urban Land Institute - providing leadership in the responsible use of land to enhance the total environment.
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 and Architectural Committee - a committee of the Saint-Petersburg city administration.
Urban Planning Homepage - Site presents examples of innovative planning in the United States, France and Spain. Special attention is given to public space and transportation. Also gives links to planning articles and resources.
Urban Planning Jobs - A complete collection of urban planning employment resources, well organized & updated regularly. Winner of the Argus Clearinghouse Seal of Approval.
Urban Planning Pages - directory of international, government, GIS, and education planning resources.
Urban Planning, 1794-1918 - an anthology of articles, conference papers, and reports related to historic planning practices worldwide.
Urban Sector Network - brings together service organisations working for community driven development that promotes an equitable and sustainable urban environment.
Usenet - alt.planning.urban
UT Austin - Community and Regional Planning Program - graduate program conferring Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees.
Virginia Commonwealth University - Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Virginia Tech - Urban Affairs and Planning
Virtual Library on Urban Environmental Management - From the Urban Environmental Management Research Initiative (UEMRI), 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.
Wayne State University - Department of Geography and Urban Planning
Willie Miller Urban Design + Planning - Consultancy based in Glasgow, Scotland providing diverse development work in urban design and environmental planning. Well-designed and informative site.
World Idea Networks - offers resources for planners of neighborhoods, towns and cities.
Wright State Center for Urban and Public Affairs - research and technical services in the public interest. A non-profit organization specializing in surveys, Geographical Information Systems, wage studies and other tools of the Urban Planner.