Abhijeet Chavan

Abhijeet Chavan is the co-founder and former co-editor-in-chief of Planetizen.

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Abhijeet Chavan is the co-founder and former co-editor-in-chief of Planetizen and the executive producer of Planetizen Courses. He was also the chief technology officer of Urban Insight, Inc., the technology consulting firm that operates Planetizen. Abhijeet Chavan has over 20 years of technology consulting experience working with government, higher education, legal services, and non-profit clients. Abhijeet is the founder of OpenAdvocate and the creator of DLAW web platform, WriteClearly plain-language authoring tool and ReadClearly legal web glossaries. Abhijeet was named to the Fastcase 50 list of global legal innovators in 2017.

Abhijeet previously coordinated geographic information (GIS), software development, and data projects for the Imaging Systems Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also served as the information technology coordinator for the East St. Louis Action Research Project, a cross-disciplinary initiative of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working with residents and community groups in severely distressed urban areas.Abhijeet received his Master of Architecture (M. Arch) and Master of Landscape Architecture (M.L.A) degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

USC Joins LA's Downtown Rennaisance

Urban universities including the Univ. of Southern California are working to transform their tough neighborhoods.

Growth Presents Challenges To Communities, Planners

As the nation's population reaches 300 million, tackling explosive growth becomes a critical national priority.

Protecting Atlanta's Beltline

Did the city of Atlanta make a mistake by letting a deal with a mega-developer fall apart or did it have no choice?

American Christianity Embracing Environmentalism

"To conservative Christians, environmentalism was a dirty word -- it stank of paganism, of interference with the free market, of the sixties. Meanwhile, many environmentalists were more secular than the American norm, and often infected with the notion spread by the historian Lynn White in his famous 1967 essay, "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis," that Christianity lay at the root of ecological devastation. Everyone, in short, was scared of everyone else. But there were a few lights starting to shine in that gloom."

Refugee Resettlement in Metropolitan America

Using data from the Census and the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, this report examines where refugees come fromâ"documenting significant region-specific flows tied to various overseas conflicts" and where they land, finding that refugee destinati