Urban Planning & Public Policy

Features managing community concerns, barriers to development, newsletter, discussion board, news, forum posts and resources.

Publication, reports of research done at this Columbia University Institute which also includes the Spatial Information Design Lab. Much works is supported by Open Society and is open access.

Provides informational resources for the international network of professionals working to promote strong cities.

Features Main Street profiles, elements of design, examples of town planning and urban design, and provides useful images, slide presentations and workshops.

Attempts to interconnect approaches to town planning and architectural design in the overall context of neighborhood planning.

Non-profit policy research organization on U.S. social and economic problems. Hot Topics includes position papers and testimony on such subjects as block grants, civil rights, education, health, medicare, and taxes.

As a program of the Brookings Institution, the Metropolitan Policy Program publishes reports, publications, news and commentary on urban issues. Their focus is to encourage the future growth of metropolitan areas to be productive, inclusive, and sustainable.

New research center for urban analysis in Chicago opens in late 2012.

Documentation of interesting areas in urban environments.

Collection of articles, information on workshops and services and links and resources related to the concept of walkable neighborhoods.

2017 celebrates the fifth year of this research overview for the city of Irvine.

Report issued by the UCI Metropolitan Futures Initiative indicates that "Relocations of large business may capture the imaginations of politicians, draw splashy news headlines and bring a quick surge in city revenue, but they're actually quite rare. When businesses in Southern California move, they don't move far, according to the latest Metropolitan Futures Initiative report: only a third depart their original city."