Go to    Cafe del las Ciudades [In Spanish] coffee of the cities is a place in the network for the encounter of knowledge, watched reflections and on the city. It is not property of any group, it disciplines or profession: whatever it has something to say can seat to its tables, and speak with the parroquianos. Love by the city (the own one, some in individual, or all, according to the taste of each one), and tolerance with the other people's opinions, are the only condition to enter. There is one who distrusts of char them of coffee: we will try to demonstrate its error to him. Our coffee is in any place where somebody wants it to enjoy, but some data will help to find it. We are in a corner, because we like the encounter, and because from she is watched there better in all the directions. We have very ample windows to see the life in the streets, and they do not scare his conflicts to us. It is easy to arrive walking at our coffee, and for that reason it comes people from the center and all the districts (yes somebody prefers an exclusive atmosphere, who look for another place). Data did not need on coffees friends, because we like to walk of bar in bar: how to request to him to the parroquianos that remain all the night in ours? That is the only chain to which the coffee of the cities belongs: the one of all the unique and unique coffees, in any corner of any city.

Go to    California Planning & Development Report

For 20 years, California Planning & Development Report has been regarded as the authoritative periodical on planning and development issues - required reading for planners, land-use lawyers, developers, environmentalists, citizen activists, and others interested and involved in the process of planning and development in California. Since 1986, CP&DR has been a unique institution - a monthly newsletter that serves the California planning and development community by providing comprehensive and up-to-date information in an impartial way using the highest journalistic standards.

Almost all of CP&DR's editorial material is prepared by professional journalists with special knowledge in planning and development. CP&DR is the only independent publication in the nation covering planning and development issues in a single state. Our subscribers include local planners, developers, land-use and environmental lawyers, state legislators, university professors, and federal agencies. And though most of our subscription list is in California, our readers stretch from New York to Japan.

The California Planning & Development Report office in Ventura also serves as the "launching pad" for many other articles and publications dealing with land-use planning, local government, and economic development in California and around the nation. The editors, William Fulton and Paul Shigley, write regularly for many other respected publications, including, Governing magazine (www.governing.com), and Planning magazine (www.planning.org). CP&DR's editors have also written many books, special reports, and other publications on planning and development in California and the nation.

Go to   Curbed     Go to Curbed LA     Go to Curbed SF   -  In New York City, it all comes back to real estate, rent, and the neighborhoods we inhabit.  Since its launch in May 2004, Curbed has established itself as the center of the virtual conversation about real estate in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond. Sales and rental prices, celebrity deals, new developments, amusing broker stories, hot restaurants, and the latest neighborhood gossipits all on Curbed. Updated a dozen or more times throughout the day, and liberally spiced with reporting and dish from readers, Curbed has become a daily fix for tens of thousands of NYC residents—and the most-trafficked neighborhood and real-estate weblog on the web.

The Gutter

The Gutter, located at gutter.curbed.com, is Curbed's architecture blog. Written by the anonymous Guttersniper since its launch in May 2005, The Gutter has fast become the topic of architectural cocktail party chatter. As the New York Times' House & Home section wondered, "Seems to have some highly placed moles, alleging financial scandals and hinting at marital infidelities involving celebrities. But who knows so much, yet is willing to risk burning so many bridges?"

Go to Global Urban Development:  Formerly the Prague Institute site. 

What is our fundamental challenge for global urban development in the 21st century?
Can we possibly succeed at enabling every community to peacefully grow and thrive?
Why can't we all just get along?

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Go to     the Gotham Gazette        The Gotham Gazette is a Web site about the issues facing New York City.  Our publication has received local accolades and national recognition for the quality of its journalism and its usefulness as a reference work.

Gotham Gazette is published each weekday by the Citizens Union Foundation of the City of New York, the non-profit research and education affiliate of a good-government group that dates back to 1897.

It functions as four publications in one -- a daily digest of news about New York City; a news operation in itself; a policy magazine; and a reference tool for students and serious researchers alike.

Gotham Gazette as a whole attempts to explain all the most important issues facing New York and New Yorkers. But we also have subsites with more specific focus. City Government (formerly Searchlight) is a guide to New York City government and politics. Immigrants (also called The Citizen) is a selection of articles from New York's immigrant/ethnic press, translated into English from some three dozen languages. Our Community Gazettes (also called Community) are a pioneering effort at covering every community in the city, with your help. This year, we also offer Eye on Albany, which looks at efforts to reform state government, and also continues a tradition we began in 2001, a look at this year's races for political office.

Gotham Gazette has won many awards, including an Online Journalism Award for General Excellence, given by the Online News Association; the Innovator Award from the Pew Center for Civic Journalism; the Journalism Award from the New York chapter of the American Planning Association; a "Best of Reference" designation as one of the 25 most useful reference resources by the New York Public Library.

Go to    Maisonneuve   -    Maisonneuve has been described as a new New Yorker for a younger generation, or as Harper's meets Vice, or as Vanity Fair without the vanity—but Maisonneuve is its own creature. Maisonneuve's purpose is to keep its readers informed, alert, and entertained, and to dissolve artistic borders between regions, countries, languages and genres. It does this by providing a diverse range of commentary across the arts, sciences, daily and social life. The magazine has a balanced perspective, and "brings the news" in a wide variety of ways. At its core, Maisonneuve asks questions about our lives and provides answers free of cant and cool.