Chris Stines

<p>"The End of Affordability", a YouTube video in five parts, examines the "five common fallacies of urban consolidation" in Sydney, Australia.</p>

<p>A barber shop owner in Clarksville, Tennessee shot and killed himself in front of the City Council after members voted against his request to rezone his home as commercial property.</p>

<p>Over the last two decades, immigration has "feminized" -- there are now more female immigrants than male immigrants. This change should impact housing and educational policies for immigrants, writes professor Ali Modarres in an academic paper.</p>

I&#39;m posting this blog entry live in front of a panel session of approximately 200 participants at the <a href="http://www.ohioplanning.org/conference/">2007 Ohio Planning Conference</a> at the Columbus Conference Center to demonstrate, live, how one posts to a blog.<br /><br /><img src="/files/u4/columbus-conf-ctr.jpg" alt="Columbus Conference Center in walkable downtown Columbus" title="Columbus Conference Center in walkable downtown Columbus" hspace="4" vspace="4" width="400" height="266" align="right" />I&#39;m presenting on &quot;Web 2.0 Tools to Communicate Planning Ideas&quot;. Here&#39;s the pitch:<br />

<p><img src="/files/u4/lvmonorail2.jpg" border="0" alt="Los Vegas Monorail" title="Los Vegas Monorail" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="362" height="362" align="right" />I was visiting Las Vegas for a wedding and, rather than blow my salary on the blackjack table, I was eager to try the new <a href="http://www.lvmonorail.com/">Las Vegas Monorail</a>. As the world&#39;s only city-scale example of a technology that was once envisioned as the future of mass transit, the Las Vegas Monorail has seven stops along a route that roughly parallels Las Vegas Strip, with stations connected to major hotels. <br />