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.
A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
A new book demonstrates that even the ugliest industrial structures have a certain beauty when you consider their utility.
Downtown Dallas As Urban Residential Mecca
With one of the nation's most forlorn downtowns, Dallas plans to convert most of the glass-and-steel downtown business district into an upscale residential neighborhood.
New Orleans Levee Board Mismanaged Levees
Investigators in New Orleans are determining that a patchwork of local agencies supposedly responsible for overseeing the levee system, called 'levee districts' are to blame for many system failures.
Detached Housing Share at 6-Year High
Americans continue to flock to new single-family detached housing, according to new US Census Bureau figures through the third quarter of 2005, which indicate the share of new housing starts in single family detached housing rose 1.2 percentage points between 2004 and 2005.
Revisiting Traffic Calming Practices
A journal article summarizes a survey of traffic calming practices in 21 jurisdictions and compares the results to surveys conducted a decade ago.