art + planning

Milieux

Art VULUPS

LA Time Lapse [city lights by Colin Rich]

circulation + mobility + transportation

Streetmix

Walk Score

Pedestrian Environmental Quality Index (P.E.Q.I.)

civic engagement + technology

Code for America Apps & Apis

CONSERVATION

Struggle for survival
SOME ANIMALS MOVING, VANISHING AS DESERTS GROW HOTTER
Story by Ian James / Photos by Omar Ornelas and Richard Lui , The Desert Sun

Joshua trees losing ground
AS CLIMATE CHANGES, ICONIC TREES DYING IN PARTS OF JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK
Story by Ian James / Photos by Richard Lui , The Desert Sun

economy + [funding + crowd]

Kickstarter

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

food systems

40 maps that explain food in America
by Ezra Klein and Susannah Locke on June 9, 2014

geography: human + physical + urban

ESRI Tapestry Segmentation

Tapestry™ Segmentation The Fabric of America’s Neighborhoods

USA Tapestry™ Segmentation

Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census

Watch 220 Years Of U.S. Population Expansion

Mapping Poverty in America

The Racial dot Map

Visualization: Lake Cahuilla and the Formation of the Salton Sea

Regional Opportunity Maps

healthy communities

Healthy Riverside County Initiative

Healthy Communities Definition-California Planning Roundtable

Building Healthy Communities Eastern Coachella Valley

REPORTS

Revealing the Invisible Coachella Valley

PLANNING organizations LINKS

American Planning Association

American Planning Association-California Chapter

American Planning Association- Inland Empire

Ethical Principles in Planning

California Planning Roundtable

Urban Land Institute

mapping tools

The Riverside County Land Information System

Healthy City 

Putting Youth on the Map--UC Davis Center for Regional Change

Walk Score