About Planetizen
Planetizen: The Planning & Development Network
Planetizen is a public-interest information exchange provided by Urban Insight for the urban planning, design, and development community. It is a one-stop source for urban planning news, commentary, interviews, event coverage, book reviews, announcements, jobs, consultant listings, training, and more.
Planetizen is read by a diverse array of people interested in the built and natural environments, and their interaction. Planetizen's audience includes professional urban planners, developers, architects, policy makers, educators, economists, civic enthusiasts and others from across the United States and around the world.
Planetizen prides itself on covering a wide number of planning, design, and development issues, from transportation to global warming, architecture to infrastructure, housing and community development to historic preservation. We provide a forum for people across the political and ideological spectrum, ensuring a healthy debate on these and other important issues.
Please explore the navigation in the right margin to learn more about Planetizen.
The Planetizen Team and How to Contact Us
How To Join The Planetizen Team
Planetizen's Services
Content
News: The latest planning and development news, updated many times every day, for over six consecutive years.
Original work: Every week, Planetizen publishes original content written by leaders in the field, including Op-Eds, book reviews, event coverage, and interviews. Learn more about writing for Planetizen.
Planetizen Podcast: With the Planetizen Podcast, you can conveniently listen to Planetizen's thought-provoking coverage of urban planning, design, and development issues.
Online Education: Planetizen offers online courses covering a variety of planning-related topics taught by experts in the field, from transit-oriented development to historic preservation and AICP exam preparation.
Top Books: Read about the Top 20 All-Time Greatest Urban Planning Books, as well as the 10 Top Books published every year, since 2002.
Top Websites: Learn about the Best Urban Planning and Development Websites, since 2002.
Email Newsletter: Get the latest news, jobs, and announcements conveniently delivered to your email account two times a week.
Radar: Monitor the latest headlines and weblogs from across the Web. Updated around the clock.
Professional Development
Find a job: Search for career opportunites.
Post a job: Post employment opportunites and reach qualified candidates.
Find a Consultant: Look for firms providing urban planning and related services in our searchable Consultants Directory.
List your firm: Maintain a national or regional profile in the urban planning and development community by listing your firm in the Planetizen Consultant Directory.
Post an announcement: Get the word out to your peers and colleagues. Publish press releases, RFPs, and other announcements on Planetizen and in the twice-weekly Email Newsletter.
All Media Access
Webfeed: Get the Planetizen WebFeed and keep your website fresh with dynamically updated content.
RSS Feeds: Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is an XML-based format for content distribution. Planetizen offers several RSS feeds. Look for the orange XML icon on different pages of the website.
Mobile Edition: Read Planetizen news, articles, jobs, and announcements on your web-enabled handheld device (Palm, Windows CE, etc.)
Planetizen's Mac OSX Dashboard Widget: Apple's Mac OSX (Version 10.4+) displays a convenient dashboard with mini-applications called widgets that keep you up to date with the latest information from the Internet.
Website Development and Internet Consulting: The creative, editorial and technical development team that built and operates Planetizen may be available to help you build your website. Urban Insight technology consulting firm with a background in urban planning, architecture, design or development. Urban Insight offers a variety of services and products.
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