Wikipedia:WikiProject Urban studies and planning

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Welcome to the Urban Studies and Planning Wikiproject

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Urban studies and planning. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

This WikiProject aims to:

1. Thoroughly explore Urban studies and planning - globally and historically.
2. Improve Urban studies and planning related articles.
3. Provide a place to discuss common issues on Urban studies and planning related pages.
4. Organise, discuss and categorise Category:Urban planning
5. Ensure all pages meet the standards of Wikipedia:Cite sources. Non-referenced articles seem unprofessional. See also WikiProject Fact and Reference Check.
6. Develop standards and templates for Urban studies and planning related articles.

Section open to discuss the format for each article based on the WikiProject. Include various categories applicable to the topic.

The goals of this project are the following:

1. Ensure all the articles under the scope of this project are written to a high quality
2. Organise all the articles into appropriate categories
3. Place all categories in the correct hierarchy.
4. Create user friendly linkages and navigation

An assessment department has been opened at Wikipedia:WikiProject Urban studies and planning/Assessment and a bot request has been made to tag all articles in Category:Urban studies and planning and all sub cats with the {{planning}} tag.

Adopt an article

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Create new articles

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This tool finds redlinks in the pages of a category, or of a single page, and sorts them according to number of occurrences: Missing topics

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• Expand stubs.

Requests:

• Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
• Memorial Drive (St. Louis) - the competition for the arch grounds is currently sitting there.
• St. Louis Gateway Mall

Improve

Cleanup

• Urban studies and planning cleanup listing

Improve former featured articles

• City status in the United Kingdom
• Piccadilly Circus

Link

• Connecting bundle of rights to Urban Planning --Nick 16:09, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Chriswaterguy ^{(t - c - WPID)} (particularly interested in sustainability aspects) 03:09, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Aude (talk contribs) 19:00, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• CQ 02:20, 14 July 2006 (UTC) • WP:CBTF • I'm here because i keep running into you folks while working on Community stuff[reply]
• CComMack (t•c) 02:08, 20 July 2006 (UTC) (particularly interested in transportation planning)[reply]
• Rickyrab | Talk 14:37, 16 January 2007 (UTC) Transportation planning, land use, history of urban development, historical mapping of cities (which appears to have been lacking from an Internet POV, even though there are numerous historical city maps: there's no real standard even for a single city, with the result being that comparing historical maps of the same city is difficult).[reply]
• Dogears (talk · contribs) 02:57, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Bossi (talk contribs) 19:09, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• H Padleckas 02:46, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• oldhaus 07:46, 13 August 2015 (UTC) Interests include historic preservation in rural unincorporated former communal villages. Amana Villages, Iowa.[reply]
• Trulystand700 New York City
• MRSC • Talk 08:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC) - UK regional and urban planning, the Thames Gateway[reply]
• Parkwells (talk) 15:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC) Practitioner in the US, especially interested in urban history and design, but also social history and migrations[reply]
• Mesmith9 7 June 2008 (UTC) - I am a researcher on ancient and preindustrial cities and willing to help out now and then when I have time.
• Bhockey10 (talk) 07:25, 16 July 2008 (UTC)- former architecture major, still very interested in Urban Planning[reply]
• Daniel Case (talk) 06:31, 2 October 2008 (UTC) - I do a lot of historic district articles for WP:NRHP.[reply]
• AlexPlante (talk) 23:44, 14 February 2009 (UTC) - I'm a civil engineer who designs municipal infrastructure for a consulting firm. Since early January I've added quite a bit to the article on infrastructure and would like some feedback.[reply]
• Elekhh (talk) 14:09, 13 September 2009 (UTC) - Urban Design[reply]
• Stevevance 12 July 2010 - Recent urban planning graduate, bicycle transportation planner, Chicagoan.
• Jcovarru - Interested in spatial urban systems - land use, transit, street systems.
• MetroFan - Interested in Urban St. Louis
• Yclept:Berr - On again off again student of architecture & urban planning - involved in the Third place movement. Community activist.
• Mar4d (talk · contribs) - Interested in urban planning in Pakistan and South Asia.
• MakeBelieveMonster (talk) 12:54, 27 August 2011 (UTC) - Urban planner / transport planner[reply]
• PatSunter - interested in transport planning, urban sustainability, and key planning thinkers' biography pages. --PatSunter (talk) 11:32, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Feihuamengxue-student in Rice University and plan to revise and expand the entry "Slum".
• Nickknack00 (talk) 22:51, 3 February 2014 (UTC) Urbanization researcher focusing on India, Southeast Asia, and USA[reply]
• Dan arndt (talk) 01:51, 28 May 2014 (UTC) - am an Urban & Regional planner from Western Australia[reply]
• pmelton87 (talk) 11:42, 31 July, 2014 (UTC)
• Weissespumpernickel (talk), 14:43, 30 October 2014 (UTC) - interested in urban development and architecture, mainly in Europe[reply]
• Rcsprinter123 (talk · contribs) 11:27, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Rgalts (talk) 21:53, 26 February 2015 (UTC) - An aspiring urban planner; A part of a class, I am currently working on the article on overurbanization and would really appreciate feedback.[reply]
• Rselby1 Rselby1 (talk) 04:54, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• BRD-98 (talk) 19:29, 5 April 2015 (UTC) - Interested in urban geography, specifically American and Asian cities[reply]
• M2545 (talk) 07:15, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Skywalker Kush (talk) 17:37, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Human3015 knock knock • 09:45, 21 July 2015 (UTC) This is one of my favourite topic area.[reply]
• Quidster4040 (talk) 21:15, 26 March 2017 (UTC) - Interested in transportation planning.[reply]
• Randomeditor1000 (talk) 17:13, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Jason Heppler (talk) 21:01, 23 August 2018 (UTC) - historian of urban history / planning[reply]
• Em-mustapha ^t@lk 11:11, 1 April 2020 (UTC) - Interested in Urban planning, design and sustainability as well as transportation and economic planning in Africa.[reply]
• Berke330 (talk) 15:42, 18 July 2020 (UTC) - Urban History[reply]
• User:Heatherkong (talk) - 14:00, 27 September 2020 (UTC) - Interested in gentrification and equitable development[reply]
• Timmylegend (talk) 15:43, 19 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• CivitasID (talk) 2:40, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
• Muttnik talk 06:16, 25 February 2022 (UTC) - regional planning[reply]
• Sam7688 (talk) 01:29, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Adondai (talk) 00:15, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Schojam (talk) 11:28, 02 June 2023 (UTC) - social & economic issues in urban & regional planning, Urban/regional planning history, and planning law.[reply]
• Hewwo3 (talk) 00:08, 18 March 2024 (UTC) - urban planning undergrad, transportation planning (non-american context)[reply]

Userboxes

For those who are:

This user is an urban planner.

Here is a template for your use:

Code	Result	Usage
{{User WP USPL}}	This user participates in WikiProjectUrban studies and planning.	WikiProject USPL userbox

Recognised articles

List of Featured articles, Featured lists and Good articles:

• Featured articles:

London congestion charge, Millennium Park, Chicago, Noel Park, London, Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Washington, D.C.

• Featured lists:

Grade I listed buildings in Bristol, List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the West Midlands

• Good articles:

A1 road (London), Albert Dock, Liverpool, Arbor Hill Historic District–Ten Broeck Triangle, Burnham Park (Chicago), Center Square/Hudson–Park Historic District, Central Troy Historic District, Citadel of Arbil, Columbia Park, Torrance, California, Congestion pricing , Copán, Covering of the Senne, Brussels, Downtown Ossining Historic District, Downtown Triangle (Jerusalem), High Line (New York City), Historic district (United States), History of Milton Keynes, Kowloon Walled City, Lafayette Park Historic District, Lakeshore East, Chicago, Milton Keynes, National Register of Historic Places, New Bedford Historic District, Pullman Square, Rush Street (Chicago), Skinner's Room, South End–Groesbeckville Historic District, Urban heat island, Via della Conciliazione, Rome

• Former Featured and Good articles: Bangalore, Transportation in New York City

Assessment Department

Statistics

Urban studies and planning articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			4	3			7
FL		1	1	2			4
GA		8	10	49		9	76
B	12	35	41	82		57	227
C	24	82	109	315		154	684
Start	30	120	179	709	1	551	1,590
Stub	2	10	115	413		258	798
List		6	27	79	4	147	263
Category	1		2	2	1,089		1,094
Disambig				1	5	1	7
File					33		33
Portal					1		1
Project					10		10
Template				1	24		25
NA		5	12	12	124		153
Other		1			22		23
Assessed	69	268	500	1,668	1,313	1,177	4,995
Unassessed		1	1		4	172	178
Total	69	269	501	1,668	1,317	1,349	5,173
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 16,302			Ω = 4.82

Project banner

• {{Planning}} This template was created previously and included on some of the talk page of planning articles by Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture. Please feel free to use and change this as you need. The template can be used to assess planning articles, similar to Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Assessment. —Dogears (talk • contribs) 01:36, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Urban studies and planning NA‑class

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Infoboxes

• {{Infobox Urban Development Project}}

Stubs

• {{Planning-stub}} - Use this template for Planning and Urban studies stubs.
• {{UK-planning-stub}} - For UK-related articles. If applicable, you can add both.

The complete list of stub articles can be found at:

• Category:Urban studies and planning stubs
  • Category:United Kingdom planning stubs
  • Category:Real estate_stubs

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• List of all subpages of this page

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  • Category:Community organizing
• Category:Human geography

Related WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects are:

• WikiProject Architecture (Parent project)
• WikiProject Cities
• WikiProject Community
• WikiProject Environment (Indirectly related: covers sustainability)
• WikiProject Home Living
• WikiProject Squatting

Related Portals

• Portal:Architecture
• Portal:Geography
• Urbepedia - A portal in Wikia, which is dedicated for urban issues and is more technical and more detailed

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• WikiBooks search

External links

These links should provide some utility for referencing Urban Planning & Studies pages. Please feel free to add more sources as you find them.

• Planetizen
• American Planning Association
• Project for Public Spaces
• Urban Land Institute
• Metropolis Magazine
• ArchNewsNow
• Glensburg - African Urban Development Consulting Firm
• Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
• Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
• Basic Resources for City and Regional Planning - UC Berkeley
• Building Technology - U.S. Dept. of Energy
• KnowledgePlex Affordable Housing and Community Development Resource
• Congress for the New Urbanism
• Glensburg Cities Institute - Urban Development Think Tank
• Glensburg Town Planners - Town Planning Firm in South Africa
• Smart Growth
• World Urban Forum III - 2006 Vancouver, British Columbia
• Program on Humanistic Globalization
• Sightline - An environmental think tank in Seattle

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

Article alerts

Categories for discussion

• 31 Mar 2024 – Category:Infrastructure by location (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 31 Mar 2024 – Category:Infrastructure by year of completion (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 31 Mar 2024 – Category:Infrastructure by century of completion (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 31 Mar 2024 – Category:Infrastructure (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 26 Oct 2023 – Pruitt–Igoe (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Rublov (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 14 Apr 2024 – L.A. Skyscrapers Graffiti (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Oceanwide Plaza by Classicwiki (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Mar 2024 – Megacity (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of largest cities by OrdinaryGiraffe (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Jan 2024 – Commercial district (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Commercial area by Kavehkdf1402 (t · c); see discussion
• 19 Nov 2023 – Gallagher Park (Edmonton) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to North Saskatchewan River valley parks system by 162 etc. (t · c); see discussion
• 19 Nov 2023 – Gold Bar Park (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to North Saskatchewan River valley parks system by 162 etc. (t · c); see discussion
• 19 Nov 2023 – Victoria Park (Edmonton) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to North Saskatchewan River valley parks system by 162 etc. (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Nov 2023 – Terwillegar Park (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to North Saskatchewan River valley parks system by 162 etc. (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Oct 2023 – Urban dust dome (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Urban heat island by KaiKemmann (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 12 Mar 2024 – Grand Paris (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 2A01:CB09:E059:2DC0:FDD6:6026:E45E:B60E (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Mar 2023 – Planning permission (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Mvcg66b3r (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 27 Mar 2024 – Draft:Kamyar Fuladlu (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 185.205.94.111 (t · c)
• 15 Mar 2024 – Draft:Secured By Design (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Hotpantsraindance (t · c)
• 06 Mar 2024 – Draft:Housing and Urban Development Corporation (Jordan) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Autherer (t · c)
• 28 Feb 2024 – Draft:Belgrade garden (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tommyleena (t · c)
• 11 Feb 2024 – Draft:Parking Reform Network (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Joiedevivre123321 (t · c)
• 02 Feb 2024 – Draft:Los Angeles Pedway (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Vrbanite (t · c)
• undated – Draft:Moriyama Teshima Architects (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
• 31 Mar 2024 – Draft:Matt Hern (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 96.23.228.63 (t · c) was declined by Bearcat (t · c) on 13 Apr 2024