city planning & urban design resources
blogs & reading material
planning
- Planetizen
- New Urban Network
- The Next American City
- Hack Your City
- Design Observer
- reddit /r/urbanplanning
- Sprawled Out
- NRDC - Kaid Benfield
- Emergent Urbanism
- The Antiplanner
- mammoth
- Grist Placemaking
- Civic Blogger
- Top 50 Urban Policy Wonk Bloggers
transportation
- The Transport Politic
- Reinventing Parking
- Transportation Nation
- Infrastructurist
- Human Transit
- Streetsblog Network
- The City Fix
architecture / sustainability / misc
- ArchDaily
- BLDGBLOG
- The Cool Hunter
- Dezeen
- Fast Company Design
- GOOD
- Inhabitat
- Landezine
- Wallpaper*
organizations
san francisco / bay area
- ABAG
- Livable City
- REBAR
- SPUR
- Urban Ecology
- Urban Green
elsewhere
- OpenPlans
- Project H Design
- Safe Routes to School
- Smart Growth America
- Reconnecting America
- Strong Towns
tools
- EpiCollect
- NabeWise
- Walk Score (alt)
- Abogo
job search
design / planning / architecture
- UC Berkeley Job Board
- Dezeen Jobs
- Archinect
- California APA
- Planetizen
- Architizer
general
- Idealist
- Indeed
- Simply Hired
reference
maps / data
- Housing + Transportation Affordability Index
- OpenStreetMap
- PolicyMap
- TOD Database
- Urban Forest Map (SF)
- Oakland Crimespotting new
GIS / public data
- Data.gov (USA) new
- Data SF new
- NYC DataMine new
- PASDA new
architecture
- Architizer
- OpenBuildings.com
projects
- + Pool
- SFpark
- New Bike Law
- Parking Day
misc
TED Talks (link)
- James Howard Kunstler
- Ellen Dunham-Jones