Chris Stines is Planetizen's former Editor and the founder of Urban Insight, a leading digital agency. Chris has 25 years of experience in technology consulting and urban planning and has served as a consultant to public sector state, county, and local agencies, Fortune 500 private firms, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations.
Smart Growth Vs. Sprawl: Labels Get Fuzzy
Is locating Merill Lynch's office complex in sleepy Hopewell Township, N.J. smart growth or has it irreversibly damaged the town's rural character?
El Paso: When Growth Becomes Sprawl
Faced with the first phase of a planned 1,300-home subdivision, El Paso struggles to decide when exactly growth becomes urban sprawl.
Downtown L.A.'s Hottest New Commodity
Some are calling this sleeper deal the biggest real estate coup in Downtown Los Angeles in a decade.
When Tech Goes Bad
Nerdistans -- what Joel Kotkin calls areas with rapid high-tech growth -- are suddenly out of favor.
Stopping Sprawl By Creating Farm Markets
Congress can help to contain sprawl by creating new markets for small farms in the 2002 Farm Bill.