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ARMAZÉM DE DADOS.RIO (DATA WAREHOUSE.RIO) Brazil. Portal managed by Instituto Pereira Passos - IPP (Pereira Passos Institute), entity linked to the Secretaria Municipal de Urbanismo - SMU (Town Planning Secretary) of the city Rio de Janeiro. The site offers download of aerial view pictures and architectural sites of many parts of the city. Several glossaries, among them: dwelling, cartography, territory and environment, and infrastructure and land use. Chart library with a collection of photographs and digital charts. In Portuguese.
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CYBURBIA
United States. Urban planning portal, for those interested in the cities
and the built environment. News, foruns. Directory with thousand links
related to urban planning. Search engine. In English.
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PAROLE
United States. Initially designed to be a dynamic dictionary of the
contemporary city, today it is a vast and heterogeneous website. Currently
about 900 words, related to the transformation of the urban landscape,
are organised in a hypermedia database, along with more than 1000 links
to and from the Internet. Images, texts, quotations, comments, fragments
of text, links to external websites, videos, sounds and webcams. In
English.
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PLANNING APPLICATIONS United Kingdom. Steps and informations for making a planning in the United Kingdom. Subject portals: urban, rural, housing, environment, transport, sustainable development. Planning topics: flood risk assessment, listed buildings and conservations areas, advertisement control, among others. Rights and regulations. Directory links. Glossary of planning terms. In English.
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PLANNING PORTAL United Kingdom. The UK government's online planning and building regulations resource. Great section dedicated to links. It has a glossary of planning terms. This glossary is a summary of around 500 phrases relating to land use and spatial planning matters. It covers a variety of issues ranging from new development and regeneration, to conservation and environmental protection. In English.
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PLANOS DIRETORES (MASTER PLANS) Brazil. Portal dedicated to urban master plans, according to Brazilian legislation and reality. News, links and information about courses. In Portuguese.
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SIRCHAL France. International site about Revitalization of Historic Centers in Latin America and Caribe. Seminar, expertise ateliers, documents and a topical four language glossary about the subject (French, Spanish, Portuguese and English). In French, Spanish and Portuguese.
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URBAN ICONOGRAPHY Italy. Site of the Institute of Design & Culture. Events and courses. It was founded with the goal of providing “smart” travelers to Rome with the opportunity to learn about Roman history, art, and culture while enjoying the Eternal City. In particular, the IDC strives to demonstrate how Rome is a unique urban environment, one in which past and present icons have been woven together to create a complex contemporary whole. In English.
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URBANDATA - BRASIL Brazil. IUPERJ (Instituro Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro - College Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro) URBANDATA - BRASIL (Data Base about Urban Brazil), under both coordination of Emeritus Prof. Licia do Prado Valladares and Prof. Luiz Antonio Machado da Silva, is a database that compiles information on urban research in Brazil and serves the purpose of a "who's who" , "who wrote what", "who works on which subjects", "which institutions research what" and "what subjects were already researched" about the Brazilian urban matter. In Portuguese and English.
URBANISMO
PORTUGAL Portugal. News, exhibitions, professional associations,
legislation and texts. Several links. In Portuguese.
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URBAWEB Spain. Group of specialized experts in town planning of Catalunya, who collaborate with professionals in this area in government institutions for management and development of urban designs. Development of urban designs: plans for urban arrangement, urban leading plans, plans for urban improvement, among others. In Catalan and Spanish (Castillian).
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