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Architecture/Urban Design
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California
California Center For Regional Leadership
The California Center for Regional Leadership is a statewide nonprofit organization established to support, facilitate, and promote innovative regional solutions for our major economic, environmental, and societal challenges, to help achieve a more sustainable California.
Speaker's Commission on Regionalism
Encourages and supports collaboration among decision makers and stakeholders to better enable our governments and our citizens to address California's major economic, social, and environmental challenges in the years ahead.
Careers and Professional Development
Planning Education @ a Distance
Offers online continuing education classes for planning practioners and public officials.
General Planning
Center for Advanced Public Safety Research (CAPSR)
Part of the School of Public Safety and Professional Studies at the University of New Haven, CAPSR provides consulting and training services in many areas including Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), and and crime mapping and analysis.
Cyburbia
A directory of Internet resources relevant to planning, architecture, urbanism, growth and sprawl, and other topics related to the built environment. Also features online discussion forums.
Planetizen
A public-interest information exchange for the urban planning and development community, offering daily urban planning news headlines, job opportunities, commentary and events.
PlannersWeb
Online resources on a variety of topics. Also access detailed summaries of more than 250 articles for planning commissioners and citizen planners from the archives of Planning Commissioners Journal (with full articles available to order and download).
The Urban Reinventors ONline Urban Journal
Newly released Online Urban Journal, whose aim is to analyze political strategies of urban redevelopment implemented by entrepreneurial local administrations of western countries within the growth-oriented and competition-driven framework of urban governance of the contemporary city. The social, economic, and longterm macroeconomic impacts of strategies of urban reinvention require robust theoretical and empirical evaluation. The aim of this journal is to make those evaluations and to put current debates about strategies of urban reinvention in context and perspective. Through the analysis of several case studies of critical significance, assets as well as pitfalls and disfunctionalities of such strategies will be unraveled.
Several contributions featured in the first issue ("Confronting Strategies in Urban Reinvention", June 2007) portray general features of strategies of urban reinvention in western Europe and in the United States, whereby a particular attention has been placed on the "urban renaissance" agenda in the US and the UK, and on so called "creative" urban strategies. The core of this issue is the analysis of specific case studies of redevelopments in European and US cities, whereby particular attention is paid to assets and pitfalls of the strategies implemented.
The journal is edited by Alessandro Busà (Technische Universität Berlin) and co-edited by an international adivsory board. The journal is open to submissions related to the above mentioned topics.
Contact: info@urbanreinventors.net
Housing and Community Development
Livable Places
A nonprofit housing developer and policy advocate working to make neighborhoods in Los Angeles County more livable and environmentally sustainable while building for our growing population.
Los Angeles
Delirious LA: Exhibits and essays on landscape and urbanism by Alan A Loomis
Includes a calendar of events for Southern California
Los Angeles Conservancy
Preserving and Revitalizing Greater Los Angeles' Architectural Heritage
PreserveLA.com
PreserveLA.com is a forum and clearinghouse for the latest news, information, and techniques concerning historic preservation and the history of Los Angeles and Southern California.
Southern California Association of Governments
Functions as the Metropolitan Planning Organization for six counties region encompassing Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura and Imperial counties.
Southern California Planning Congress
The Southern California Planning Congress is an association comprised of over 75 cities, counties, public utilities, private consultants and professionals interested in interjurisdictional and regional planning issues. The SCPC provides a forum for constructive planning discussion concerning the plans and planning needs of Southern California.
Southern California Transportation and Land Use Coalition
The Coalition seeks to promote joint transportation and land use decision-making at all levels of government within Southern California
The Planning Report
"The Insider's Guide to Planning in the Region." Monthly print and online newsletter covering urban planning throughout the Los Angeles area.
ULI Los Angeles
Local district council of the Urban Land Institute.
Organziations
American Planning Association
A nonprofit public interest and research organization committed to urban, suburban, regional, and rural planning
California Planning Roundtable
Congress for New Urbanism
CNU works with planners, architects, developers and others involved in the creation of cities and towns to promote the principles of the New Urbanism.
Student Related
USC Associated Students of Planning and Development
Planning student organization at the University of Southern California.
Transportation
ihatedriving.com
Website providing alternative transportation choices in LA Metro area.
Paul Hastings is a leading international law firm that has anticipated clients' changing legal needs for more than fifty years.
