WebInfoSearch Web Directory
WebInfoSearch Web Directory
| 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. | |
| Building Providence: Provides construction status of building and planning projects, public meeting information, and links about Providence, Rhode Island. | |
| 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. | |
| Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy: Reports, analysis, commentary, special features, and books from The Brookings Institution. | |
| 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. | |
| Creating Quality Places: Fosters the design of quality places in the Kansas City, Missouri area. Includes principles, case studies, tools, and a forum. | |
| 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 Forums: Discussions about planning, cities, and the built environment. | |
| 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. | |
| Infrastructure.ie: Presents categorized information and maps of Ireland's physical, social, and enterprise infrastructure. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| People in Place: Conference in Melbourne, Australia examines creative, livable, and innovative cities. Registration, program, speaker profiles, news, and press information. | |
| Periferia: Covers topics on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean. | |
| Planetizen: Announcements: Information on RFPs, RFQs, conferences, educational opportunities, press releases, and other current events. | |
| Planetizen: Jobs: Current job postings. | |
| Planetizen: News: Links to planning news, reports, and editorials in the media. | |
| Planetizen: Radar: Automatically updated collection of syndicated planning content. | |
| Planetizen: A public-interest information exchange for the urban planning and development community. Urban planning and development news, job opportunities, commentary and events. | |
| 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 U.K. 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. | |
| Suburbia Project: A collection of essays covering urban and suburban design, transportation modalities, habitat preservation, urban farming, and social and environmental economics. | |
| The Land Centre: An internet clearinghouse providing information about Canadian real estate and land use. | |
| The Mayors' Institute on City Design: Works to transform mayors into advocates for good design by hosting symposiums on urban design. | |
| The Orange Empire of Southern California: Profiles, news, and commentary for the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan region. | |
| 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. | |
| This Land is Ours: An introduction to the planning process prepared by the League of Women Voters. | |
| 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 Topics: Dedicated to providing information and resources on urban and regional planning and environmental issues. | |
| 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 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. |
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