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.
LAUSD Site Planning: The Good, Bad, Ugly
Stakeholders offer their two cents on plans for Los Angeles' Abasssador Hotel as a future LAUSD school site.
The New LA Charter: Are You Ready?
Among the changes: 15 neighborhood councils, five regional planning commissions. Is this "placebo government?"
Silicon Valley? Technology Needs Space
Joel Kotkin suggests that Silicon Valley's real estate is causing it's demise. Instead, technology is looking toward Dallas, Washington DC, and Southern California.
El Toro: CA's Most Bitter Land Use Controversy
Feature story in Planning Magazine chronicles history and planning or El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in the heart of Orange County.
Technology for Planning and Architecture
The AEC Systems show profiles new technologies for architecture, construction, planning; focus on tech tools for project management.