- About Planning
- Featuring information about sites, publications, essays, and news related to land use planning, growth management, comprehensive planning, smart growth, and new urbanism. - Active Living by Design
- Establishes and evaluates innovative approaches to increase physical activity through community design, public policies, and communications strategies. - Affordable Housing Design Advisor
- Bringing the power of design to affordable housing. - Best Practices Database
- Searchable database of solutions to the common social, economic, and environmental problems of urbanization. - BLDGBLOG
- Blogging urban architecture, strange landscapes, and futuristic structures. See photos from buildings and spaces all over the world. - California Planning and Development Report
- Monthly newsletter serving the California planning and development community. - carfree.com
- Chronicles carfree cities of the past, present, and future. Also offers solutions to the problem of the urban automobile. - City Comforts Blog
- Daily postings about cities, architecture, urban design, land use, and transport from a slightly libertarian stance. - Common Sense
- Features a collection of planning related essays by Richard Carson. - 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. - Cyburbia
- Portal for urban planners and others interested in cities and the built environment. Includes an urbanism wiki, image galleries, an online resource directory, and Cyburbia forums. - Delirious LA
- Research exhibits and essays on architecture, landscape, and urbanism. Includes architectural tours and driving guides, research abotu urban development, and commentary on specific sites and projects. - Great Streets!
- Provides design tips for creating more livable main streets and case studies of communities which successfully reclaimed their streets from through traffic. - Pennsylvania's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Resource
- Offers information, advice, and photos related to neighbourhood traffic calming concepts. - Planetizen
- Planning and development news, jobs, events, and more. - Planners Web
- Resources on city and planning, land use, zoning, and environmental issues. Includes the Planning Reports Centre, which locates planning reports and documents from across the country. - Resource for Urban Design Information (RUDI)
- Portal for urban design including news, events, case studies, examples of best practice, design guides, book reviews, and a bookshop. - Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence
- Recognises those urban places which incorporate meaningful values, integrative processes, and good design. - State and Local Consolidated Plans
- Lists consolidated plans, annual action plans, and consolidated annual performance reports which grantees must provide for funding under the CDBG, HOME, HOPWA, or ESG programmes. - 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 Parks Online
- Resources to help improve, restore, and revitalize urban parks, with info on parks funding, programming, management, and more. - 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. - UrbanPlanet Institute
- Features articles, forums, development maps, and general discussions about urban planning. - Wikipedia: Urban Planning
- Offering information on the history, aesthetics, safety, and transportation issues surrounding urban planning and design.
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