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» Site title: Planetizen  - A public-interest information exchange for the urban planning and development community. Urban planning and development news, job opportunities, commentary and events.
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» Site title: ArchNet
» Site description: An online community and resource for architects, urban designers, landscape architects, planners, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world.
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» Site title: Big Box Reuse
» Site description: Julia Christensen studies and explores how communities reuse empty big box buildings. Case studies, articles, and presentation schedule.
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» Site title: Building Better Communities Network
» Site description: An information clearinghouse and communication forum dedicated to building inclusive communities and to successfully siting affordable housing and community services.
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» Site title: California Land Use Planning Network
» Site description: LUPIN (Land Use Planning Information Network) is an information service that supports and addresses California land use planning issues via the CERES web.
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» Site title: Center for Land Use Interpretation
» Site description: Research organization involved in exploring, examining, and understanding land and landscape issues. It employs a variety of methods to pursue its stated aim, engaging in research, classification, extrapolation, and exhibition.
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» Site title: CharretteCenter.net
» Site description: Information on planning, conducting, and implementing results from design charettes.
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» Site title: CityMayors
» Site description: News about the world's cities and how their mayors are dealing with today's urban issues.
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» Site title: Cyburbia
» Site description: Planning resource center includes a detailed resource directory, numerous message boards, a wiki, and image galleries.
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» Site title: Ecology of Absence
» Site description: Documents abandonment of the built environment and speculates on geographic, sociological, ecological, and architectural factors. Most examples are in St. Louis, Missouri.
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» Site title: Ecosystem Anthologies: Land Use
» Site description: This guide to online resources serves the information and communication needs of individuals and organizations working to protect our environment and create a sustainable future.
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» Site title: Europaforum Wien
» Site description: Analyzes policies, conducts public dialogues, organizes conferences, and publishes works on urban issues in the European Union. In German and English.
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» Site title: Great Streets!
» Site description: Profiles of cities with thriving main streets, an examination of the details that make them successful, and a look at the fictional River City in the movie The Music Man.
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» Site title: Jobs In Planning
» Site description: Employment opportunities for planning professionals, with a focus on Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
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» Site title: Land Use Law
» Site description: Includes articles, cases, ordinances, statutes, and photographs from Professor Daniel R. Mandelker of Washington University.
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» Site title: Megacities
» Site description: Annual Dutch lecture series. Includes full text archives from prior years.
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» Site title: National Geographic - The New Suburb?
» Site description: Explore a virtual new urbanist neighborhood. Includes comparisons to typical suburban developments, lesson plans, links, and an image gallery.
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» Site title: Neighborhood Planning
» Site description: Educational resource for understanding and improving neighborhoods. Includes a number of detailed examinations of topical issues.
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» Site title: New Urbanism
» Site description: The revival of our lost art of place-making, it is essentially a re-ordering of the built environment into the form of complete towns. New Urbanism promotes the creation and restoration of compact, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods, towns, and cities.
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» Site title: Online NewsHour: New Urbanism
» Site description: Companion site to PBS program includes core concepts, interviews, discussions, criticisms, comparisons, and examples.
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» Site title: Ordinance.com
» Site description: Pay site with free sections providing land use ordinances, maps, design guides, and similar services. Registration required.
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» Site title: Parole
» Site description: A thesaraus of modern concepts in urban development. For each there is a definition, bibliography and its source publication.
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» Site title: Periferia
» Site description: Covers topics on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean.
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» Site title: PlannersWeb
» Site description: Topical material on zoning ordinances, land use, comprehensive plans, master plans, subdivision regulation, transportation, housing, urban design, takings-property rights, and the impacts on cities and towns.
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» Site title: Planning Help
» Site description: Campaign to Protect Rural England project provides information on how citizens can influence local planning decisions.
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» Site title: Planning Portal
» Site description: Government gateway to planning information throughout the UK. Provides information on plans, appeals, applications, contact details, research areas.
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» Site title: Planning Resource
» Site description: UK planning portal. Includes news, employment, appeals, education, documents, consultants directory, and forum.
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» Site title: Planning-applications.co.uk
» Site description: Free online guide to the UK town planning system. Lodge an appeal and review development plans.
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» Site title: Planum
» Site description: Selected European planning journals, an extensive planning web guide, archives of plans, and events from the town and regional planning world.
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» Site title: Resource for Urban Design Information
» Site description: Multimedia resource for teaching, research, and professional activity in urban design and its related disciplines.
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» Site title: Sense of Community Project
» Site description: A study of social capital in urban blocks of Lansing, Michigan demonstrating its relationship to quality of life and social behavior.
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» Site title: Smart City
» Site description: A weekly, hour-long public radio talk show that looks at urban life. Host Carol Coletta talks with public policy experts, designers, elected officials, developers, planners and others in discussions of urban issues.
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» Site title: The Smarter Land Use Project
» Site description: Focuses on improving the quality of proposed developments in settled areas. Includes a citizens guidebook for achieving effective collaboration.
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» Site title: The Social Developer
» Site description: An examination of issues in modern urban development and its influence on the lives of urban dwellers.
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» Site title: The Social Life of Cities
» Site description: A collection of photo essays illustrating aspects of public space, collective memory, urban design, and architecture.
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» Site title: Space.City
» Site description: Seattle, Washington-based nonprofit hosts lectures and events on architecture, public art, and urbanism.
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» Site title: Think
» Site description: An annual conference at ExCeL London about sustainability in the built environment.
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» Site title: Tidepool
» Site description: Environmental, community, and economic news for the bioregional community of western North America.
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» Site title: Timeline of New Urbanism
» Site description: A searchable database of key events in the history of new urbanism, as well as historical influences.
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» Site title: Urban Age
» Site description: International conference series on the future of cities. Conference information, archives, foci, and networking.
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» Site title: Urban Environmental Management
» Site description: A grouping of urban planning researchers from around the world. It looks at urban areas as the intersection of natural, built, and socio-economic environments.
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» Site title: Urban Futures
» Site description: A project of the Reason Public Policy Institute. Promotes voluntary, private-sector and market-oriented solutions to sprawl and other urban problems.
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» Site title: Urban Photo
» Site description: Promotes and explores urban issues through photography.
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» Site title: Urban Planet
» Site description: Urbanist message boards with areas for general and regional discussions.
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» Site title: Urban Planning, 1794-1918
» Site description: An international anthology of primary source material for the study of how urban planning developed up to the end of World War I. Includes articles, conference papers, and reports.
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» Site title: Urban Planning Now
» Site description: Job postings and links to planning employers.
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» Site title: Urban Planning Topics
» Site description: Dedicated to providing information and resources on urban and regional planning and environmental issues.
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» Site title: Urban Residue
» Site description: Papers on the nature of public space and profiles of progressive urban areas.
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» Site title: Urbanicity
» Site description: An introduction to the concept of urbanicity.
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» Site title: Urbanology
» Site description: Urban projects, ideas, and plans. Virtual tour in ghetto spaces, urban planning students network and philosophy for the Urban Planning Department of Columbia.
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» Site title: Wikipedia: Urban Planning
» Site description: Encyclopedia entry covers planning's role in aesthetics, safety, transportation, suburbanization, and the environment. Includes lists of famous planners and planned communities.
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» Site title: Cyburbia Forums
» Site description: Discussions about planning, cities, and the built environment. [RSS]
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» Site title: Planetizen: Announcements
» Site description: Information on RFPs, RFQs, conferences, educational opportunities, press releases, and other current events. [RSS]
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» Site title: Planetizen: News
» Site description: Links to planning news, reports, and editorials in the media. [RSS]
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» Site title: Planetizen: Radar
» Site description: Automatically updated collection of syndicated planning content. [RSS]
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When I was in high school I used to be terrified of my girlfriend''s father, who I believe suspected me of wanting to place my hands on his daughter''s chest. He would open the door and immediately affect a good-naturedly murderous expression, holding out a handshake that, when gripped, felt like it could squeeze carbon into diamonds
Now, years later, it is my turn to be the dad. Remembering how unfairly persecuted I felt when I would pick up my dates, I do my best ot make my daughter''s suitors feel even worse.
My motto: wilt them in the living room and they''ll stay wilted all night.
"So," I''ll call out jovially. "I see you have your nose pierced. Is that because you''re STUPID, or did you merely want to APPEAR stupid?"
As a dad, I have some basic rules, which I have carved into two stone tablets that I have on display in my living room.
Rule one: If you pull into my driveway and honk you''d better be delivering a package, because you''re sure as heck not picking anything up.
Rule two: You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter''s body, I will remove them.
Rule Three: I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don''t take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to assure that your clothes do not, in fact, come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric staple gun and fasten your trousers securely in place around your waist.
Rule Four: I''m sure you''ve been told that in today''s world, sex without utilizing a "barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate: when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I WILL kill you.
Rule five: In order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is "early".
Rule six: I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make YOU cry.
Rule seven: As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process which can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don''t you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?
Rule eight: The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter. Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wodden stool. Places where there are no parents, policemen, or nuns within eyesight, Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater and a goose down parka zipped up to her adam''s apple. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which feature chainsaws are okay. Hockey games are okay.
My daughter claims it embarrasses her to come downstairs and find me
attempting to get her date to recite these eight simple rules from memory. I''d be embarrassed too--there are only eight of them, for crying out loud! And, for the record, I did NOT suggest to one of these cretins that I''d have these rules tattooed on his arm if he couldn''t remember them. (I checked into it and the cost is prohibitive.) I merely told him that I thought writing the rules on his arm with a ball point might be inadequate--ink washes off--and that my wood burning set was probably a better alternative.
One time, when my wife caught me having one of my daughter''s would-be suitors practice pulling into the driveway, get out of the car, and go up to knock on the frond door (he had violated rule number one, so I figured he needed to run throught the drill a few dozen times) she asked me why I was being so hard on the boy. "Don''t you remember being that age?" she challenged.
Of course I remember. Why do you think I came up with the eight simple rules?
Humor of the day
ARTERY--The study of fine paintings.
BARIUM--What you do when CPR fails.
BENIGN--What yoiu are after you be 8.
CAESAREAN SECTION--A district in Rome.
COLIC--A sheep dog.
COMA--A punctuation mark.
CONGENITAL--Friendly.
DILATE--To live longer.
FESTER--Quicker.
G.I. SERIES--Baseball game between teams of soldiers.
GRIPPE--A suitcase.
HANGNAIL--A coat hook.
MEDICAL STAFF--A Doctor''s cane.
MINOR OPERATION--Coal digging.
MORBID--A higher offer.
NODE--Was aware of.
ORGANIC--Church musician.
OUTPATIENT--A person who has fainted.
POST-OPERATIVE--A letter carrier.
PROTEIN--In favor of young people.
SECRETION--Hiding anything.
SEROLOGY--Study of English knighthood.
TABLET--A small table.
TUMOR--An extra pair.
URINE--Opposite of you''re out.
VARICOSE VEINS--Veins which are very close together.