Find here government agencies ( (international, federal, or state), professional or scholarly organizations, research institutes, and other relevant organizations of interest to urban and regional planning scholarship.
Cyburbia connects planners, students, academics, urbanists, and others who are interested in or help shape the built environment. Several forums for range of planning topics, such as land use and zoning, transportation planning, rural and small town planning, and more.
The Federation is a global network of urban professionals who analyze urban challenges and utilize workshops, seminars, reports, and other actions to advocate and promote safe, sustainable, inclusive solutions.
An interactive site for information on sustainable development and poverty reduction, and a space for communities to share experiences on development efforts. A spin-off of the World Bank, DG partners with governments and organizations to to enhance data use in development policies and initiatives. DG creates technology tools, provide data use advisory services, does research, and more to accomplish this.
A research and education organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth’s surface, and in finding new meanings in the intentional and incidental forms that we individually and collectively create.
ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Includes classification Architecture and City Planning.
Cities and Buildings Database is a “collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web” from the University of Washington.
"Administered since 1933 through cooperative agreements with the National Park Service, the Library of Congress, and the private sector, ongoing programs of the National Park Service have recorded America's built environment in multiformat surveys comprising more than 581,000 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 43,000 historic structures and sites dating from Pre-Columbian times to the twentieth century." Includes city planning, urban planning, regional planning, and planning areas.
A nonprofit organization that provides technical assistance, education, and research through programs in parks, plazas and central squares; buildings and civic architecture; transportation; and public markets. It has extensive photos and examples of successful projects and design criteria.
Selected hand sketches, trace and linen drawings, watercolors, elevation drawings--some with comments and notes--of documents related to campus development that not only provided foundation for the campus we know and love today but also influenced development of the surrounding areas.
Covers non-traditional transportation technologies with an emphasis on non-automotive transportation. Its library with reports, bibliographies and papers is especially strong.
TRB is a program of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that "provides innovative, research-based solutions to improve transportation" through its programs, projects, publications, databases, and other resources.
The Center “conducts high-quality, non-partisan policy research, engages youth in urban planning, and cultivates collaboration between city and school leaders to strengthen all communities.”
A nonprofit organization that provides technical assistance, education, and research through programs in parks, plazas and central squares; buildings and civic architecture; transportation; and public markets. It has extensive photos and examples of successful projects and design criteria.
A multidisciplinary real estate network, ULI facilitates an open exchange of ideas, information, and experience among industry leaders and policy makers dedicated to creating better communities.
PolicyMap Deep Dive Webinars "features experts on a variety of topics—from public policy to education and the arts—and how their work incorporates GIS, data and maps. Join us to learn about the latest trends and technology at the intersection of people, places and information."
