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.
Internet Growth Meets Smart Growth
Across the country rapid Internet growth is causing evictions, traffic, and other urban problems. The dot-com culture is discovering smart growth.
Connect Transportation and Land Use
Failure to recognize the connection between land use and transportation threatens the region's economic future and quality of life.
Catellus Gets Out of Home-Building
Catellus Development Corp., one of the West's largest developers, is selling the majority of its home building operations. Is this a sign?
Public Housing Desegregation Report
HUD publishes its results on research into voluntarily entering into consent decrees on discriminatory housing practices instead of litigating.
Bighorns Impact Growth
Proposed massive three-county, 1,370 square mile refuge for endangered bighorn sheep would require new land use restrictions.