Planetizen is a planning-related news
website
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and e-learning platform based in
Los Angeles
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, California. It features user-submitted and editor-evaluated news and weekly user-contributed op-eds about
urban planning
Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water ...
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
The term netizen is a portmanteau of the English words ''internet'' and ''citizen'', as in a "citizen of the net" or "net citizen". It describes a person actively involved in online communities or the Internet in general. , a
portmanteau
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and
citizen
Citizenship is a "relationship between an individual and a state to which the individual owes allegiance and in turn is entitled to its protection".
Each state determines the conditions under which it will recognize persons as its citizens, and ...
. The website self-reports that it is visited by 1.5 million unique visitors each year.
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
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in