Urban planning

Urban, city, or town planning, deals with the physical, social and economic development of metropolitan regions, municipalities and neigrborhoods. Other professions deal in more detail with a smaller scale of development, namely architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. Regional planning deals with a still larger environment, at a less detailed level. The Greek Hippodamus is often considered the father of city planning, for his design of Miletus, though examples of planned cities permeate antiquity. Muslims are thought to have originated the idea of formal zoning (see haram and hima and the more general notion of khalifa, or "stewardship" from which they arise), although modern usage in the West largely dates from the ideas of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne.

External links

• American Planning Association — organization for professional planners
• Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations
• Carfree.com
• City Comforts
• Cyburbia — urban planning-related message boards, wiki, image galleries, and hierarchical link directory
• PLANetizen — planning news
• Planum — The European Journal of Planning
• Royal Town Planning Institute — professional organisation of planners in UK and worldwide
• Urban Land Institute
• Urban Planet — An online forum for urbanists