An online community and resource for architects, urban designers, landscape architects, planners, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world.

Julia Christensen studies and explores how communities reuse empty big box buildings. Case studies, articles, and presentation schedule.

An information clearinghouse and communication forum dedicated to building inclusive communities and to successfully siting affordable housing and community services.

LUPIN (Land Use Planning Information Network) is an information service that supports and addresses California land use planning issues via the CERES web.

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.

Information on planning, conducting, and implementing results from design charettes.

News about the world's cities and how their mayors are dealing with today's urban issues.

Planning resource center includes a detailed resource directory, numerous message boards, a wiki, and image galleries.

Discussions about planning, cities, and the built environment. [RSS]

Documents abandonment of the built environment and speculates on geographic, sociological, ecological, and architectural factors. Most examples are in St. Louis, Missouri.

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.

Analyzes policies, conducts public dialogues, organizes conferences, and publishes works on urban issues in the European Union. In German and English.

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.

Employment opportunities for planning professionals, with a focus on Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Includes articles, cases, ordinances, statutes, and photographs from Professor Daniel R. Mandelker of Washington University.

An overview provided by the Cornell Law School.

Annual Dutch lecture series. Includes full text archives from prior years.

Explore a virtual new urbanist neighborhood. Includes comparisons to typical suburban developments, lesson plans, links, and an image gallery.

Educational resource for understanding and improving neighborhoods. Includes a number of detailed examinations of topical issues.

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.

Collects and disseminates information on Montreal's indoor and underground city. In French and English.

Career profile from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Companion site to PBS program includes core concepts, interviews, discussions, criticisms, comparisons, and examples.

Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and similar services. Registration required.

A thesaraus of modern concepts in urban development. For each there is a definition, bibliography and its source publication.