The Social Life of Cities
- A collection of photo essays illustrating aspects of public space, collective memory, urban design, and architecture.
- http://www.wfu.edu/sociology/sociallifeofcities/

Resource for Urban Design Information
- Multimedia resource for teaching, research, and professional activity in urban design and its related disciplines.
- http://www.rudi.net/

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.
- http://www.parsol.gov.uk/

Tidepool
- Environmental, community, and economic news for the bioregional community of western North America.
- http://www.tidepool.org/

Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
- Reports, analysis, commentary, special features, and books from The Brookings Institution.
- http://www.brook.edu/es/urban/urban.htm

Big Box Reuse
- Julia Christensen studies and explores how communities reuse empty big box buildings. Case studies, articles, and presentation schedule.
- http://www.bigboxreuse.com/

Neighborhood Planning
- Educational resource for understanding and improving neighborhoods. Includes a number of detailed examinations of topical issues.
- http://www.neighborhoodplanning.org/

Urban Age
- International conference series on the future of cities. Conference information, archives, foci, and networking.
- http://www.urban-age.net/

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.
- http://www.eco-absence.org/

The Orange Empire of Southern California
- Profiles, news, and commentary for the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan region.
- http://www.orange-empire.com/

Space.City
- Seattle, Washington-based nonprofit hosts lectures and events on architecture, public art, and urbanism.
- http://space-city.net/

Land Use Law
- Includes articles, cases, ordinances, statutes, and photographs from Professor Daniel R. Mandelker of Washington University.
- http://law.wustl.edu/landuselaw/

Planning Resource
- UK planning portal. Includes news, employment, appeals, education, documents, consultants directory, and forum.
- http://www.planning.haynet.com/

Online NewsHour: New Urbanism
- Companion site to PBS program includes core concepts, interviews, discussions, criticisms, comparisons, and examples.
- http://www.pbs.org/newshour/newurbanism/

Planning Help
- Campaign to Protect Rural England project provides information on how citizens can influence local planning decisions.
- http://www.planninghelp.org.uk/

Urban Planet
- Urbanist message boards with areas for general and regional discussions.
- http://www.urbanplanet.org/

Europaforum Wien
- Analyzes policies, conducts public dialogues, organizes conferences, and publishes works on urban issues in the European Union. In German and English.
- http://www.europaforum.or.at/

Observatoire de la Ville Interieure
- Collects and disseminates information on Montreal's indoor and underground city. In French and English.
- http://www.ovi.umontreal.ca/

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.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning

Urbanicity
- An introduction to the concept of urbanicity.
- http://www.urbanicity.us/

Jobs In Planning
- Employment opportunities for planning professionals, with a focus on Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
- http://www.jobsinplanning.com/

The Mayors' Institute on City Design
- Works to transform mayors into advocates for good design by hosting symposiums on urban design.
- http://www.archfoundation.org/micd/

Planning-applications.co.uk
- Free online guide to the U.K. town planning system. Lodge an appeal and review development plans.
- http://www.planning-applications.co.uk/

Planning Portal
- Government gateway to planning information throughout the UK. Provides information on plans, appeals, applications, contact details, research areas.
- http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/

Building Better Communities Network
- An information clearinghouse and communication forum dedicated to building inclusive communities and to successfully siting affordable housing and community services.
- http://www.bettercommunities.org/

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.
- http://www.smartcityradio.com/smartcityradio/

CharretteCenter.net
- Information on planning, conducting, and implementing results from design charettes.
- http://www.charrettecenter.net/

Periferia
- Covers topics on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean.
- http://www.periferia.org/

National Geographic - The New Suburb?
- Explore a virtual new urbanist neighborhood. Includes comparisons to typical suburban developments, lesson plans, links, and an image gallery.
- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse/sprawl/

Megacities
- Annual Dutch lecture series. Includes full text archives from prior years.
- http://www.megacities.nl/

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.
- http://www.greatstreets.org/

CityMayors
- News about the world's cities and how their mayors are dealing with today's urban issues.
- http://www.citymayors.com/

Urban Photo
- Promotes and explores urban issues through photography.
- http://www.urbanphoto.net/

Urban Residue
- Papers on the nature of public space and profiles of progressive urban areas.
- http://www.urbanresidue.com/

The Smarter Land Use Project
- Focuses on improving the quality of proposed developments in settled areas. Includes a citizens guidebook for achieving effective collaboration.
- http://landuse.org/

Parole
- A thesaraus of modern concepts in urban development. For each there is a definition, bibliography and its source publication.
- http://parole.aporee.org/

Timeline of New Urbanism
- A searchable database of key events in the history of new urbanism, as well as historical influences.
- http://www.nutimeline.net/

ArchNet
- An online community and resource for architects, urban designers, landscape architects, planners, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world.
- http://archnet.org/

Cyburbia
- Planning resource center includes a detailed resource directory, numerous message boards, a wiki, and image galleries.
- http://www.cyburbia.org/

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.
- http://www.msu.edu/user/socomm/

Urbanology
- Urban projects, ideas, and plans. Virtual tour in ghetto spaces, urban planning students network and philosophy for the Urban Planning Department of Columbia.
- http://www.urbanology.org/

Legal Information Institute: Land Use Law
- An overview provided by the Cornell Law School.
- http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/land_use.html

Urban Planning Topics
- Dedicated to providing information and resources on urban and regional planning and environmental issues.
- http://www3.sympatico.ca/david.macleod/UTOPS.HTM

Urban Futures
- A project of the Reason Public Policy Institute. Promotes voluntary, private-sector and market-oriented solutions to sprawl and other urban problems.
- http://www.urbanfutures.org/

Planum
- Selected European planning journals, an extensive planning web guide, archives of plans, and events from the town and regional planning world.
- http://www.planum.net/

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.
- http://ceres.ca.gov/planning/

Occupational Outlook Handbook: Urban and Regional Planners
- Career profile from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos057.htm

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.
- http://www.gdrc.org/uem/

Ordinance.com
- Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and similar services. Registration required.
- http://www.ordinance.com/

Urban Planning Now
- Job postings and links to planning employers.
- http://www.urbanplanningnow.com/

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.
- http://www.ecoiq.com/onlineresources/anthologies/landuse/index.html

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.
- http://www.clui.org/

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.
- http://www.newurbanism.org/

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.
- http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/homepage.htm

The Social Developer
- An examination of issues in modern urban development and its influence on the lives of urban dwellers.
- http://www.hillside.ca

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.
- http://www.plannersweb.com/