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Environmental design & Sustainable urban planning categories

I've merged Category:Sustainable urban planning (which had about 4 articles) into Category:Environmental design. A lot of the articles already in the Environmental design category were related or marginally related planning, anyway. --Singkong2005 ^{(t - c - WPID)} 17:51, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Categories need attention

There are 260 articles in Category:Urban studies and planning. Many of these should be moved to subcategories.

Is there a better way of organising the categories?

E.g.: create a subcategory, Category:Philosophies of urban studies and planning or Category:Concepts in urban studies and planning - this would conveniently group articles such as Arcology, Carfree Cities, Ecocities, Ecovillage, Livable Streets, New Urbanism and Transit-oriented development, and categories such as Category:New Urbanism. What do you think? --Singkong2005 ^{(t - c - WPID)} 18:34, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Categorization ain't easy! Please take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories and see what that WikiProject has to say. You can always find help on categories. I'm no expert myself, but I know a few from working on Wikipedia:WikiProject Community. Please note that the two projects overlap in many ways. The categories show this well. Note also that I have included Category:Urban studies and planning as a subcategory of Category:Community. CQ 02:48, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... well done. Community is a vague term though, and the category (Category:Community) reflects that - so that's another challenge to think about. I also added it to Category:Human habitats.

I'll check out those WikiProjects when I get a chance... --Singkong2005 ^talk 11:50, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is surely not easy, but one first thing to look at is separating examples. There are already categories for specific issues in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. It seems like there should be some kind of category for specific examples possibly split up by geography. My particular interest is in traffic calming with numerous important examples being in Holland, Sweeden, Norway, and California which would burden the category list if I started adding pages in a similar manner. Not exactly sure how this would work, but it does seem clear that listing all geographic areas and subareas in the category list is almost certain to prove cumbersome. -- M0llusk 18:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Some kind of "urban planning by location" category" sounds like a good idea... so the structure would look something like this:

Category:Urban studies and planning
- Category:Urban planning by location (or a more suitable name...?)

Sound okay? --Singkong2005 ^talk 11:43, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New members

I have listed the WikiProject on the Community Portal's bulletin board. --Aude (talk contribs) 19:33, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Portal

I suggest we wait on creating a portal, until we have a few articles listed as good and/or Wikipedia:Featured articles. I have seen too many portals get created, only to be poorly maintained (though Portal:Architecture is quite good) that I'm apprehensive about creating new portals. Having a critical mass of articles will make maintaining a portal much easier. At minimum, the "selected article" should be rotated once a month; ideally, content rotates weekly. --Aude (talk contribs) 19:33, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Probably wise. But there's nothing to stop us starting a draft portal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Urban studies and planning/Portal:Urban Studies and Planning if we want to make a start. I'd find it interesting, and it might at least be a useful tool for us to use in laying out the relationship between articles, & categories. --06:36, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree with a having a draft page here. You might event take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Kentucky/Portal. I think that's a good template for identifying content. We can go from there. --Aude (talk contribs) 13:52, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I moved Wikipedia:WikiProject Urban studies and planning/Portal:Urban Studies and Planning to a more standard title — Wikipedia:WikiProject Urban studies and planning/Portal and provided a link to it on the project page. Portal talk can be opened for discussing what to include and other ideas relating to a future Portal. • CQ 15:15, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Years in architecture

The timeline of architecture aims to include information on urban studies and planning, but this information is currently underrepresented there. Please feel free to help, by adding any signficant dates to the year in architecture articles. Warofdreams talk 23:04, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Community

The Community article is being restructured, refactored, sliced, diced, sanitized, deoderized and galvanized. Any help would be greatly appreciated. See Talk:Community for more info. CQ 02:56, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

News flash! The Community article is now listed as a Good article! CQ 14:54, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Address planning

Mention address (house number) planning somewhere. --User:Jidanni 2006-10-21

Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 22:08, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Barbilltucker has the Urban studies and planning wikiproject categorised under Politics and Government in the History and society section. I've suggested that it might be better to keep the project close to Architecture for now, in Culture. There's arguments for both locations, but keeping the relatively new planning wikiproject closer to the more established architecture wikiproject seems to confer some advantages:- we're more likely to get architects and planners writing and joining rather than lawyers and those interested in politics (also welcome of course, but the field is more than the law and politics). Does anyone have any other ideas? --Mcginnly | Natter 11:18, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Peer review request - Gun violence in the United States

Lately, I have been working on criminology topics which is an area that Wikipedia sorely lacks. My interests in criminology tie together to my interests in urban studies/planning and geography, with how places impact crime and vice versa. So, that's the reason for me posting here. Last weekend, I discovered there was no article on "Gun violence", so started one. Most of the research literature pertains to the United States, so the article has become Gun violence in the United States. Obviously, people have strong POV on this topic. To try and rise above politics, I have only included the highest quality reliable sources (mainly peer reviewed, scholarly journals). Personally, I really don't have a POV on this topic, and am staying out of the Gun politics in the United States article. With the gun violence article, I have stayed with presenting the current state of research on this topic. I think is close to featured status, though some "gun rights" folks have already come along and place a neutrality tag on the article. I could really use some peer review on the article, at this point. Do you at all agree with the person who placed the neutrality tag? Any suggestions on making in more NPOV. In reality, I feel that the article deals fairly with both POVs, citing strategies advocated by gun-control folks as ineffective, while citing some strategies advocated by the Bush administration as effective. Do you have any suggestions on improving the article? are there aspects of the topic that are missing? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have filed a formal peer request here, though feel free to leave comments on the article talk page if you prefer. Thanks. --Aude (talk) 18:37, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afriad) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 15:55, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category & Project title

Is "urban studies and planning" the term used in all (english-speaking) countries?

Alternates:

Well it's called Town and country planning in the United Kingdom --Mcginnly | Natter 02:06, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The title of proposed Portal:Planning is just right to include all the specialized areas of planning. I think "studies" is not appropriate, because there's no articles, at present, with this word in the title. Planning appears to be organized in the following hierarchy:

Planning
- Land use planning
  - Regional planning & spatial planning
    - Urban planning - see: Garden city movement, New urbanism and Smart growth
      - City planning => Urban planning
        Town planning => Urban planning
        Planned neighbourhood => Neighborhood planning

—Dogears 02:52, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Need for urban maps, as well as maps of urban development

There is a need on Wikipedia and Wikimedia for maps of Urban Development and the historical expansion (and transformation) of cities. Just as national boundaries evolve and wars are fought, and battles listed on maps and the relations of national economies tallied up, so do cities and their development on the terrain of this earth evolve, and the cities blossom and grow, and their demographics shift, and the occasional riot erupt and controvery occur, and those trends, as well as the development of infrastructure, also need to be communicated via maps. How else would one find a neighborhood, or the old Jewish districts of New York, or even the site of a vanished land dispute that led to two cities growing side-by-side instead of one? It would be nice to have a sense of how the Bronx was develop'd, or the vast terrains of Brooklyn and the rest o' Long Island. — Rickyrab | Talk 14:44, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Beautifully put Sir, welcome. --Mcginnly | Natter 17:56, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment

I've created an assessment department 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. --Mcginnly | Natter 14:36, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]