Announcements

The Planning in Australia subforum is the newest addition to the Cyburbia Forums. Discuss planning issues unique to Australia, planning systems used in Australian states, Australian planning organizations and professional planner certification, and other topics related to planning in the Land Down Under.

Cyburbia has served the planning community since 1994 with very little funding or financial remuneration. Cyburbia receives no grants or honoraria, and advertising revenue is minuscule even though it has about the same level of traffic as another popular planning-related Web site.

Cyburbia isn't going away anytime soon, but it needs a sustainable revenue source or supporting sponsor if it is going to survive and thrive in the future. See this Cyburbia Forums thread for more details (must be a registered user to view the thread), and let us know your thoughts.

On Friday, 13 April, the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) Commission approved a plan for certification maintenance, with all three motions in this document passing unanimously. Details of the program can be found on the American Planning Association web site (http://www.planning.org/certification/maintenance.htm). Visit the Cyburbia Forums to share your thoughts about the news.

For those planners who work with LDFs, LDDs, and SPDs instead of PUDs, BZAs and UGBs, Cyburbia have added the new UK Town Planning forum to its lineup of planning forums. Cheers!

Join us in Philadelphia for Alefest 2007! Cyburbians attending this year's APA National Planning Conference will be getting together at 5:00 PM on Sunday, 15 April at the Independence Brew Pub, located in the Reading Terminal.

Time and location may be subject to change. Watch this post and the Forums thread for details.

AICP CPD hours: 0

Because of recent performance/uptime problems, we moved Cyburbia to a better server. The move occurred Saturday afternoon, and should now be about complete. We hope the inconveniences have been limited to a minimum.

Monday, 4 September is Labo(u)r Day in the United States and Canada. We'll catch up with the Post of the Day feature on Monday or Tuesday. Enjoy the long weekend, and stay safe.

This weekend (26-29 May), Cyburbia will be moving from its current web host to a new virtual private server of our own.

The message board, along with the rest of the site, will be offline at unexpected times. Some site functions may be broken in the process, and it may be a few days before Cyburbia returns to normal.

As you may have noticed, the Site of the Day hasn't been updated in a few days. We were kind of busy over here, finding a new host for Cyburbia. Over the next few days, we'll be setting up the new server, moving Cyburbia over, and fixing the inevitable kinks.

In the meantime, you have a Site of the Day recommendation, please send it to çŷbûrbìà(åt)çybúrbíá(dõt)øřġ, and we'll try to catch up.

If you're a member of the Cyburbia Forums, be sure to add a marker for your location on the new interactive member map.

Jane Jacobs, urban critic and author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Cities and the Wealth of Nations and other noted works about the dynamics of cities and places, died today (Tuesday 26 April) at the age of 89.

Change out of your blue shirt and meet your fellow Cyburbians and other planners at the 2006 American Planning Association national conference in San Antionio.

Sunday 23 April at 7:30 pm: Menger's Famous Bar for drinks.
Monday 24 April at 7:30 pm: Blue Star Brewery Pub for dinner and brew.

vBulletin (the program running the Cyburbia Forums) was upgraded tonight from version 3.5.3 to 3.5.4. Please report any problems or bugs in the Cyburbia Issues and Help subforum.

265,000 posts, 3,000 users and three message board systems later, the Cyburbia Forums celebrates its 10th anniversary! Has it really been that long?

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