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.
Amtrak's Dismal On-Time Performance
July marks the fourth consecutive month of declining on-time performance. One Amtrak train arrives 35 hours late to El Paso.
Twin Cities Buildings That Were Never Built
An architecture firm's website tracks 'phantom projects' -- unrealized dreams -- in the Twin Cities.
Polluting The Village To Save It?
Will the need for military readiness trump decades of environmental protections?
Developer Profile: Pres Kabacoff
The Urban Land Institute profiles Pre Kabacoff, New Orleans-based developer that specializes in breathing new life into abandoned, historic neighborhoods.
The Price of Non Interoperability: $15.8 Billion per Year
<img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//20040812-cost-grid.jpg" align="right" alt="AEC Cost Grid" /> The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) commissioned a study to estimate the efficiency losses resulting from inadequate interoperability among computer-aided design, engineering, and software systems in the U.S. capital facilities industry (In 2002, the nation set in place $374 billion in new construction on capital facilities (U.S. Census Bureau, 2004b)).<br /> <br /> Now there's apparently a precise measure of the waste caused by fragmentation of IT systems.