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.
Finding Loopholes In Anti-Sprawl Laws
Maryland's anti-sprawl laws are being circumvented by innovative developers in rural communities through the annexation process.
What's Your Ecological Footprint?
A new report charges that humans are consuming natural resources 20% faster than nature can renew them.
Canada's First National Urban Park
Can a new urban park on the north side of Toronto change the city and offer a new model of urban planning?
A Metropolitan Time Bomb?
60 million new Americans will need new schools, new roads, new water systems, just as states and cities have hit hard times.
L.A. City Hall's Mystery Blogger
A 'mystery' blogger within Los Angeles City Hall has pulled the plug on his/her blog after too much publicity.