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.
Color-coding Gas Guzzlers
SUVs will have to display red stickers while electric vehicles will sport labels in green.
Iowa Fights Brain Drain
Young, single, well-educated adults under 30 are leaving Iowa in droves. The state is considering abolishing the state income tax for everyone under 30.
Tysons Corner Mall Makes Plans For Urban Village
With the proposed extension of the DC Metrorail, the largest mall in the Washington area has drawn plans to transform the shopping area into "something like a small city."
Planning Student Profile
The Voice of America profiles Junhan Tan, an urban planning and cinema student from Singapore studying at USC.
Make Los Angeles Safer: Use Open Source
Thanks to Larry Segal (former editor of <a href="http://www.planningreport.com/tpr/">The Planning Report</a>, now at <a href="http://www.kbhome.com/">KBHome</a>) for pointing me at an interesting <a href="http://www.laobserved.com/archive/003035.html">observation</a> from <a href="http://www.laobserved.com/">LA Observed</a> about open source:<br /> <br /> <blockquote><a href="http://www.lacity.org/council/cd13/c13nps1a.htm">Eric Garcetti</a>: The blogging councilman and colleagues Wendy Greuel and Jack Weiss offered a motion to push the city toward using more open source computer programs and re-routing the money saved on software to hiring more cops.