Cyburbia missing from "Building Cities in the Virtual World" article in Planning magazine

Cyburbia ( http://www.cyburbia.org ), founded in 1994, is the Internet's oldest continuously operating planning-related Web site. Cyburbia has served the urban planning community for nearly 14 years with very little funding or financial renumeration. The Cyburbia Forums ( http://www.cyburbia.org/forums ) went online in 1996, and today remains a busy third place for planners, planning students and others interested in the built environment, with almost 5,800 members, nearly 400,000 posts, and a level of traffic that is about the same as a popular planning-related news site. As well as serving as a valuable professional resource, The Cyburbia Forums have been the basis for hundreds of real-life friendships, and, believe it or not, two marriages.

Although Cyburbia was the very first online community related to urban planning, it was not mentioned in the otherwise comprehensive "Building Cities in the Virtual World" article that appeared in the April 2008 edition of Planning Magazine. While there were six paragraphs devoted to Facebook groups in the "Online Communities" section of the article, but Cyburbia was curiously absent, not just from the section but from the entire article.

Would someone write a thorough article about New Urbanism and leave out Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Seaside, Florida? Would an article about urban growth boundaries fail to mention Portland, Oregon? Would a dissertation on congestion pricing exclude London? Probably not. We feel the exclusion of Cyburbia from the "Building Cities in the Virtual World" article in Planning magazine is an egregious omission.