Planetizen

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Planetizen

Type of site	News website
Available in	English
URL	www.planetizen.com
Commercial	Yes
Launched	February 2000; 24 years ago (2000-02)

Planetizen is a planning-related news website and e-learning platform based in Los Angeles, California. It features user-submitted news, editor-evaluated news and weekly user-contributed op-eds about urban planning and several related fields. The website also publishes an annual list of the top 10 books in the field published during the current year, and a directory and ranking of graduate-level education in the field of urban planning.

The name of the website is a concatenation of Plan, as in the word, planning, and Netizen, a portmanteau of Internet and citizen.^[1] The website self-reports that it is visited by 1.5 million unique visitors each year.^[2]

In 2006, the website also started publishing books, including the first urban planning book for children, Where Things Are, From Near to Far, published in 2008 by Planetizen Press. This book was reviewed by The New York Times.^[3] Their 2007 book Planetizen's Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning, a collection of brief essays published by Island Press, received positive reviews.^[4]