Planning Related Links

The Washington Chapter of APA provides these links for informational purposes; it does not endorse the content of the websites.

General Planning Related Sites

About Planning (Planning Utopia)
Affordable Housing Design Advisor
American Planning Association (APA)
Association of Washington Cities (AWC)
Congress for the new Urbanism
Cyburbia
Department of Design, Construction and Land Use, Seattle, WA
Housing Partnership
HUD User
KnowledgePlex
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington
Open Directory Project - Urban and regional Planning
Planetizen
Planning Association of Washington (PAW)
Planning Commissioners' Journal
Planning Institute of British Columbia
Planningprep
Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC)
Right Size Home
Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)
Urban Land Institute
Washington State Association of Counties (WSAC)
Washington State Community, Trade and Economic Development (CTED)
Washington State Legislature
Western Planner Online

GIS Sites

ESRI (for Arcview, ArcInfo, ArcGIS info)
GIS data depot
GIS Portal
WAGDA, University of Washington
Washington State Geospatial Data Clearinghouse

Economic and Census Related

Economic Search
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
US Census

Environmental

Environmental Protection Agency
United States Geological Survey
Washington Department of Ecology
Washington State Department of Natural Resources World Environmental Web Sites

This page may be enhanced later with more links.