News and publications

Planning News Vote (http://www.planningnewsvote.com/) is a new Digg-like service where planning-related news stories and Web sites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.

Witold Rybczynski has written about architecture for The New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and Slate, and is the author of the critically acclaimed book Home and the award-winning A Clearing in the Distance. He is the recipient of the National Building Museum's 2007 Vincent Scully Prize. He lives with his wife in Philadelphia, where he teaches at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.

In April, Witold Rybczynski's newest book was published - Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-first Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway.

Plan Philly (http://www.planphilly.com) offers news about urban planning and major projects being planned or under way in the Philadelphia region, and serves as a place to learn about the challenges and opportunities faced by the City of Brotherly Love. PlanPhilly.com is a project of PennPraxis, the clinical arm of the School of Design of the University of Pennsylvania.

The European Union Knowledge Network (http://www.eukn.org) facilitates the exchange of demand-driven knowledge and experience on urban issues. EUKN aims to support policy makers and practitioners across Europe in developing effective urban policy and to promote the vitality of Europe’s towns and cities.

Archiblog (http://archiblog.info) is an RSS feed singlegator offering a daily review from about 300 international architecture and built environment blogs. There's more than just English-language blogs; digests of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French blogs are also offered.

Presented by Planning Commissioners Journal, Planning ABCs (http://plannersweb.com/abc.html) by planning historian Larry Gerckens provides an overview of 26 planning topics, from automobiles to zoning. All letter topics in Planning ABC's are online.

Floating Podium (http://www.floatingpodium.com) is a singlegator that aggregates RSS feed headlines from 27 architecture and urbanism blogs and related sites, displaying them on a single page. There are other urbanism feed aggregators, such as Cyburbia's own Buzz and Planetizen Radar, but Floating Podium presents the feeds in a manner similar to the acclaimed Popurls site. Floating Podium is a wide page, and may not be easily usable on lower resolution monitors.

Grist (http://www.grist.org) offers news and feature articles about green issues and sustainable living. Urban planning and placemaking are frequently covered topics. In the words of the site: "We exist to tell the untold stories, spotlight trends before they become trendy, and engage the apathetic. We're fiercely independent in our coverage; we throw brickbats when they're needed and bestow kudos when they're warranted."

Topos (http://www.topos.de) reports on innovative projects and plans from all over the world. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to enable dialogue between architecture and landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban development. Articles from Topos are available online in the form of .pdf files.

Worldview (http://www.worldviewcities.org) is a web-based project of the Architectural League of New York that invites architects from around the world to present reports on what is new and interesting in architecture and urbanism in their cities, with a particular focus on cities and regions that are not adequately reported on by the mainstream architectural press. The city reports contain information on the architectural and urban historical context of each city, brief essays on contemporary issues of importance, and a look at current work and practitioners.

ArchNewsNow (archnewsnow.com) is a daily updated compilation of online newspaper articles related to the built environment. Even with the architectural focus, ArchNewsNow includes some planning and landscape architecture-related news and feature articles. Unfortunately, there's no RSS feed.

(Cyburbia Forums original post)

From Cyburbian Planibelle: ... that was for novices about to file their first entitlement project or big investors about to do their first large project -

What topics would you have?
What chapters would you include?
What caveats would you include?

City Limits (citylimits.org) is a New York City-centric online and print publication known for coverage of the city housing, welfare and health care bureaucracies and the criminal justice system, and economic and environmental reporting. The magazine provides information on organizing strategies, government programs and news from the front lines of advocacy and activism.

Opolis (repositories.cdlib.org/cssd/opolis) is the first peer-reviewed academic journal specifically focused on suburban studies. Opolis is a joint enterprise of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech, the Edward J. Blakely Center for Sustainable Suburban Development at the University of California, Riverside, the and the Urban Planning Department of the University of Sydney. The full text of published articles is available on the site.

The Next American City (americancity.org) is a not-for-profit organization founded by a "new generation of urban thinkers and leaders" examining the transformation of America's built environment, economy, society and culture are changing. Through a quarterly magazine, events across the country, and op-eds in major newspapers, Next American City promotes socially and environmentally sustainable economic growth in America’s cities and suburbs.