Urban Planning & Public Policy: Land Use

Research organization involves in exploring, examining, and understanding land and landscape issues.

Provides links to article and case archives, ordinances, plans, statutes, supplementary materials and photos.

The Lincoln Institute is a research organization dedicated to the issues of "use, regulation, and taxation of land." Its website provides access to a wealth of information on land policy including Lincoln Institute research papers, research projects, and their film series "Making Sense of Place", as well as free online courses. Additionally, the website has information on available research databases, planning and management tools, tax tools, and visualization tools.

This website provides a compilation of regulations that have sought to control the urban form. These regulations come from various time periods and locations around the world. This site is of special interest to those looking for the historical and cultural underpinnings of today's regulations.

As part of the University of Wisconsin-Extension at Stevens Point, the Center for Land Use Education provides information to communities so that they can make educated land-use decisions. The CLUE website contains CLUE publications, including hand-books for zoning board and plan commission members, information on their projects, and a resource library for land-use topics.

The Urban Land Institute is a nonprofit dedicated to discussing issues related to real estate and land use. Its website provides access to numerous reports and publications regarding land use from developer's point of view.