ONLINE Resources
Links to Some Resources About Planning
Professional Planning Associations
Planning Institute of British Columbia (PIBC) - www.pibc.bc.ca
Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) - www.cip-icu.ca
American Planning Association (APA) - www.planning.org
Planning Careers
http://cip-icu.ca/Careers-in-Planning
Planning Related Matters
Top 15 Theories in Urban Planning - https://urbandesignlab.in/top-15-theories-in-urban-planning
Urban Sustainability - www.eea.europa.eu/themes/sustainability-transitions/urban-environment
Transit Oriented Development - www.tod.org
Healthy Places - https://americas.uli.org/research/centers-initiatives/building-healthy-places-initiative
LEED Rating System - www.usgbc.org/leed
Smart Growth - https://smartgrowthamerica.org/what-is-smart-growth
New Urbanism - www.cnu.org/resources/what-new-urbanism
The Missing Middle Housing - missingmiddlehousing.com
Planning News Sources
Planetizen Newswire - www.planetizen.com
Wired - www.wired.com/tag/urban-planning
The Conversation - https://theconversation.com/us/topics/urban-planning-1404
Places Journal - https://placesjournal.org/explore-places/planning
ULI Urban Land Magazine - https://urbanland.uli.org
NAIOP Development Magazine - www.naiop.org/research-and-publications/magazine
Bloomberg CityLab - www.bloomberg.com/citylab
C40 Cities - www.c40.org/what-we-do/scaling-up-climate-action/urban-planning
Future Cities Canada - https://futurecitiescanada.ca/portal
Canadian Urban Institute - https://canurb.org
Brookings Cities and Regions - www.brookings.edu/topic/cities-regions
Vancouver Region Real Estate / Planning News Media
Vancouver Sun - https://vancouversun.com/category/business/real-estate
Globe & Mail BC - www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia
The Georgia Straight - www.straight.com/news/real-estate
Business in Vancouver - www.biv.com/sections/real-estate
Real Estate News Exchange - https://renx.ca/locations/british-columbia
Vancouver is Awesome - www.vancouverisawesome.com/real-estate-news
Daily Hive - https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/urbanized
The Tyee - https://thetyee.ca/Topic/Housing
Frances Bula State of Vancouver - www.francesbula.com
Viewpoint Vancouver - https://viewpointvancouver.ca
Planning Videos
What Is Planning? / What Planners Do? (2 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP52wK_fCO8
City Beautiful - How to Become a City Planner? (5 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8672L-MG2U
What is Urban Planning? Crash Course Geography #47 (11 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFPokf8mwPk
What is Urban Planning 101 (2 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=98GwUdouZi0
Young Planners - How To Change Your City in 5 Steps (5 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_slMZv9IAE
How I Got Into Urban Planning (17 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54
15 Things You Didn't Know About City Planning (probably)... (11 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Walx0iQZfiY
How Do Cities Grow? (9 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO0BZqQ42Ic
Why We Live Where We Do (10 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSxPzafO_k
Why Cities Are Where They Are (15 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PWWtqfwacQ
Transit Oriented Development, Explained (10 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYsqWIGyRVk
Books
Top 20 Urban Planning Books (Of All Time)!
Top Urban Planning Books of 2022
www.planetizen.com/features/119960-top-urban-planning-books-2022
Urban Planning Books List
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/urban-planning
Planning Canadian Communities Textbook
