Wikipedia:WikiProject Urban studies and planning

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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.

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[edit] Title

WikiProject on Urban studies and planning

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to

  1. To thoroughly explore Urban studies and planning - globally and historically.
  2. Improve Urban studies and planning related articles.
  3. To provide a place to discuss common issues on Urban studies and planning related pages.
  4. Organise, discuss and categorise Category:Urban studies and planning
  5. To 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.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects are:

Indirectly related:

A wiki portal in Wikia, which is dedicated for urban issues and is more technical and more detailed:

[edit] Related Wikiportals

[edit] Related pages in Sister projects

[edit] Participants

  • Mcginnly 11:53, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Chriswaterguy (t - c - WPID) (particularly interested in sustainability aspects) 03:09, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Aude (talk contribs) 19:00, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Nick 16:28, 28 June 2006 (UTC) I've got a lot of resources to draw from (books, lectures, presentations, etc.) and I want to make Wikipedia far more useful and organized in this area.
  • CQ 02:20, 14 July 2006 (UTC) • WP:CBTF • I'm here because i keep running into you folks while working on Community stuff
  • CComMack (t•c) 02:08, 20 July 2006 (UTC) (particularly interested in transportation planning)
  • Chaerani Urban design and urban planning, sustainability.
  • 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).
  • TonyBoswell 17:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC) Sign me up for this. I am particularly interested in U.K Town and Country Planning, and the legal/procedural aspects. Sustainability issues are on my radar - particularly the U.K legeslative and implementation aspects. (As a relative newcomer I also need the Wikipractice)!
  • DWaterson 20:46, 31 January 2007 (UTC) - I've edited a number of articles on the UK planning system in the past, so I might as well join too! I'm not a chartered town planner myself, though I do work in private practice in the business. I'm not a chartered surveyor either, but I do that now...
  • Uneirlys 23:01, 28 February 2007 (UTC)Interested in beginning to contribute to some of the historical British material
  • Bjrobinson 17:41, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Dogears (talk · contribs) 02:57, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Bossi (talk contribs) 19:09, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
  • IslesCapeTalk 16:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC) Urban and Regional Planning
  • H Padleckas 02:46, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Futurano 14:27, 29 March 2007 (UTC) Just a newbie interested in urban social studies, migration & expansion, crime, subcultures, future studies, urban nature preservation etc. Poorly connected to all this in real life, simply a researcher and PR agent living in a large third world city. Need a Wiki practice too.
  • Midwestmax 18:27, 12 April 2007 (UTC) I'm particularly interested in articles on land use and will be helping out when I can. Please let me know if you have feedback on my edits or if you want to collaborate.
  • Hydrogen Iodide 08:04, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
  • treekiller 12:33, 4 July 2007 (UTC) a rampaging m.la/m.arch with a professional passion for sustainable design around the globe
  • hydroinics 68.178.127.58 21:42, 6 August 2007 (UTC) Interested in district heating/cooling and energy generation
  • Trulystand700 New York City
  • MRSC • Talk 08:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC) - UK regional and urban planning, the Thames Gateway
  • 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
  • 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.

[edit] WikiProject User Boxes

Here are some templates for your use: 1st

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{{User WP USPL}}
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WikiProject USPL userbox

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This user is a member of the Urban Studies and Planning WikiProject.




[edit] Structure

[edit] Hierarchy definition

Proposed:

—Dogears 19:21, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Goals

The goal of this project is 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.

[edit] Projects

  1. Assemble list of GA's and FA's for inclusion in a portal:

[edit] Tasks

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

[edit] Useful External Links

These links should provide some utility for referencing Urban Planning & Studies pages. Please add more sources since this list is incomplete.

[edit] Other subpages

/Portal - Queue for design and maintenance of Urban studies and planning Portal.

[edit] Templates

 This article is part of WikiProject Urban studies and planning, a WikiProject related to the topic of Urban Planning.

--Nick 21:42, 28 June 2006 (UTC) created template page. Image is the Chicago skyline. It was the first "urban" area that came to mind for me. I would really like a more stylized image if we can find/make one.

 This article covers subjects of relevance to WikiProject Urban studies and planning, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Urban studies and planning on Wikipedia.
NA This article has been rated as NA-Class on the assessment scale.
NA This article has been rated as NA-importance on the assessment scale.


[edit] Infoboxes

{{Infobox Urban studies and planning}}


[edit] Stub templates

Please use {{Planning-stub}} for Planning and Urban studies stubs. For UK-related articles, you can also use {{UK-planning-stub}}. If applicable, you can add both.

The complete list of stub articles can be found at Category:Urban studies and planning stubs

The subcategories are shown on that page - so far they include Category:United Kingdom planning stubs and Category:Real estate_stubs - please add others as appropriate.

Category:Geographical term stubs may be relevant

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  • Comprehensive plan (also known as a Master Plan - prepared on the scale of a city or a metropolitan planning authority)
  • Rural-urban migration
  • Slum

[edit] Categories

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Related categories:

Categories for bot tagging

NOTE:Unused parts of this WikiProject page are found at Archive1.

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