Planetizen is a planning-related news website owned by Urban Insight of Los Angeles, California. It features user-submitted and editor-evaluated news and weekly user-contributed op-eds about urban planning and several related fields. The website also publishes an annual list of the top 10 books in the field published during the current year, and a directory and ranking of graduate-level education in the field of urban planning.

Planetizen just released its 2012 guide to graduate urban planning programs, which covers more than 100 programs pdfimages cygwin in the U.S. And Canada.Planetizen sent surveys to 97 schools with masters programs In urban planning.

The name of the website is a concatenation of Plan, as in the word, planning, and Netizen, a portmanteau of Internet and citizen.^[1] The website self-reports that it is visited by 1.5 million unique visitors each year.^[2]

In 2006, the website also started publishing books, including the first urban planning book for children, Where Things Are, From Near to Far, published in 2008 by Planetizen Press. This book was reviewed by The New York Times.^[3] Their 2007 book 'Planetizen's Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning', a collection of brief essays published by Island Press, received positive reviews.^[4]

• 2Innovations and Debates

Contributions[edit]

Planetizen introduced a much-needed broader perspective on city planning in the US, which very often extends into international practice as well. Coming out of the very formal car-oriented planning philosophy and practice following the Second World War, American urbanism risked becoming a dinosaur as it missed all the exciting New Urbanist practices being implemented. The great value of Planetizen was to juxtapose ALL planning practice and let readers judge the effectiveness of each idea. Coming as it did in the internet age, it provided, and continues to provide, an extremely useful central location for urbanists and planners to follow what is happening around the world. More than any other site, Planetizen is a clearing house of planning ideas, and its inclusivity without any ideological prejudice is both refreshing and invaluable.

Innovations and Debates[edit]

Suburban Sprawl[edit]

The major problem in developed economies is surely sprawl and its energy-devouring urban morphology. Planetizen has broadly championed the New Urbanist solutions while juxtaposing a variety of alternatives and criticisms. This interplay lays the groundwork for facing a difficult problem. Debate on Planetizen juxtaposes practical concerns of developers and government entities with the need for more sustainable urban fabric. Developers who build Sprawl are being educated towards new strategies for a more livable suburbia.

Informal Settlements[edit]

In the Developing World, the major problem facing both economies and governments lies in owner-built settlements, favelas, villas miserias, gecekondu, or slums by any other name. Here the debate is more difficult to access, because for a long time, the problems and solutions found in informal settlements have been either ignored or misinterpreted by mainstream planners. Solutions to this exponentially growing problem are not obvious. Planetizen has commendably brought attention to this other side of urbanism, so often ignored by the urban planning schools. For example, it sponsored a discussion on the Bombay slum Dharavi, which brought the topic of slum clearance versus upgrading to worldwide attention.^[5]

Skyscrapers/Tall Buildings[edit]

World economies and major construction companies are driven in part by building megaprojects, the most prominent component of which is one or more skyscrapers. Planetizen has opened up the debate on skyscrapers more than once. A city has to balance the drive to build high, using high-tech, with the theoretical objections that skyscrapers drain the resources and energy from the region in which they are implanted. New skyscrapers are claimed to be ecosustainable, but those claims have as many critics as they have proponents. Again, there is a need for a broad debate, and Planetizen contains many different and dissenting viewpoints on the question of skyscrapers as a viable building typology.

Criticism[edit]

Planetizen is often criticized for running news stories or user-contributed op-eds that are critical of current urban planning practices. Planetizen is also criticized by some urban planning educators in higher education for ranking graduate-level urban planning programs in the Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Education.^[6]

Timeline[edit]

• February 2000 - Planetizen is created
• August 2000 - First contributed op-ed, by Anthony Downs^[7]
• February 2001 - Site recognized with an award for use of technology by the American Planning Association
• September 2001 - James Howard Kunstler and Nikos A. Salingaros call for the end of skyscrapers in response to September 11 attacks, in an article on Planetizen, The End of Tall Buildings^[8]
• November 2002 - First annual review of top 10 books in the field of urban planning
• February 2005 - Planetizen moves to the Drupal web publishing platform and documents the migration in an article for Linux Journal.^[9]
• March 2006 - Planetizen associate editor Nate Berg begins weekly podcast about weekly urban planning issues
• June 2006 - Planetizen Press publishes first ranking of graduate-level urban planning programs
• May 2008 - Planetizen Press publishes second ranking of graduate-level urban planning programs
• October 2009 - Planetizen publishes a list of the top 100 urban thinkers, as voted on by visitors to the website^[10]
• April 2011 - Planetizen publishes a list of the top 25 thinkers in urban planning and technology^[11]
• May 2011 - Planetizen publishes 2012 ranking of graduate-level urban planning] programs^[12]
• October 2014 - Planetizen publishes 2015 ranking of graduate-level urban planning programs^[13]
• February 2015 - Planetizen launches the first video courses focused on educating urban planners^[14]
• June 2017 - Planetizen publishes 4th Edition ranking of graduate-level urban planning programs^[15]
• October 2017 - Planetizen publishes a list of the 100 most influentian urbanists.^[16]
• May 2018 - Planetizen publishes Urban Design for Planners by Emily Talen.^[17]

Editors[edit]

The site was created in February 2000 by co-editors in chief Abhijeet Chavan and Chris Steins. In 2005 David Gest was appointed the first managing editor. Subsequent managing editors have included Christian Peralta Madera (2006), Timothy Halbur (2008), Jonathan Nettler, AICP (2012) and James Brasuell (2014).^[18]

Planetizen Press[edit]

Planetizen Press is the publishing arm of Planetizen, and has published several print books.

• Planetizen Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs, 4th Edition. Published by Planetizen Press (2014).
• Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places. Published by Planetizen Press (2013).
• Planetizen 2012 Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs. Published by Planetizen Press (May, 2011).
• Insider's Guide to Careers in Urban Planning. Published by Planetizen Press (November, 2009).
• Where Things Are, from Near to Far: A Children's book about urban planning. Published by Planetizen Press (December, 2008).
• Planetizen 2009 Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs. Published by Planetizen Press (May, 2008).
• Planetizen 2007 Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs. Published by Planetizen Press (June, 2006).

Notes[edit]

1. ^Planetizen Frequently asked questions page
2. ^Planetizen Advertising page.
3. ^My First Book of Urban Planning, published by The New York Times on February 20, 2009.
4. ^Book review by Patrick S. McGovern in Canadian Journal of Urban Research
5. ^Dharavi: India's Model Slum
6. ^UCLA Professor Randall Crane explains problems with the Planetizen ranking of graduate urban planning programs on his blog, in a post, Ranking Urban Planning Programs.
7. ^First user-contributed op-ed on Planetizen: [http://www.planetizen.com/node/1California Housing Policies Create Slums, by Anthony Downs
8. ^http://www.planetizen.com/node/27]=
9. ^Migrating to Drupal, by Abhijeet Chavan and Michael Jelks. Published September 30, 2005 in Linux Journal
10. ^http://www.planetizen.com/topthinkers
11. ^http://www.planetizen.com/techthinkers
12. ^http://www.planetizen.com/topschools
13. ^http://www.planetizen.com/topschools
14. ^https://courses.planetizen.com
15. ^http://www.planetizen.com/topschools
16. ^https://www.planetizen.com/features/95189-100-most-influential-urbanists
17. ^https://store.planetizen.com/collections/urban-design-for-planners
18. ^Planetizen staff page.

External links[edit]

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Facilities[edit]

The school is located in Campbell Hall, and includes studio space, lecture halls, classrooms, the Fine Arts Café, and the Arts & Architecture Store (colloquially known as the A&A).^[1]

A decade-long program entitled 'Campbell Constructions' was created by Dean Karen Van Lengen (1999-2009). She invited Architecture and Landscape Architecture faculty to contribute to the renovation and rejuvenation of the school and its grounds. Eleven projects were completed during this ten-year period, ranging from furniture to interior renovations, as well as building additions and outdoor projects and landscapes. Van Lengen led the planning and oversight of the designs.

This series of projects was also part of a larger redevelopment program at the university. The two building expansions and landscape designs were collaborative design efforts between the faculty offices and SMBW Architects, the 'Architects of Record' for all of the major additions and landscape projects. These expansions added some 12,000 square feet (1,100 m²) to accommodate the school's growth over the previous two decades. The South Addition, by faculty member Bill Sherman, provides office space along the south side of the building. A series of landscape interventions accompany the South Addition, designed by Warren Byrd (Nelson, Byrd, Woltz, Landscape Architects). The Elmaleh East Wing, by faculty member W. G. Clark, provides additional space for reviews and exhibits. The new additions were dedicated in October 2008. The original building, by Pietro Belluschi, was completed in 1970.^[2]

Rankings[edit]

In the 2012 rankings by the journal DesignIntelligence,^[3] the school's architecture program tied for first place among public Master of Architecture programs and ranked seventh overall. U.Va. is also the top program among public and private universities in the South. The program has been ranked the first or second public Master of Architecture program three times in the last 10 years, and in the top five publics of the last 10 years. The Master of Architecture program has the lowest tuition of any top-10 program ranked by DesignIntelligence's 2012 report.^[4]

The graduate landscape architecture program is ranked third in master's programs at public universities and fifth overall. In a survey of deans and administrators, U.Va.'s Master of Landscape Architecture program ranked third overall, second for research and theory, fourth in design communication and cross-disciplinary teamwork, and fifth in computer applications. The program has consistently remained in the top six of public programs and top 15 overall since 2005.

The Planetizen 2012 Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs ranked U.Va.'s program in Urban and Environmental Planning seventh in the nation.^[5]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Campbell Hall'. UVa School of Architecture. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
2. ^'School of Architecture shines with Campbell Hall additions' (October 25, 2008), Daily Progress.
3. ^Cramer, James P. 'Big Shifts in Design School Rankings for 2013'. Design Intelligence Rankings 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
4. ^'U.Va. Architectural School Programs Ranked in Top Three of Public Universities'. UVA Today. UVA Today. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
5. ^'The Top Schools for Urban Planners'. Planetizen. Planetizen. Retrieved 26 November 2012.