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.
A Smart Growth 'Rent Belt'?
<p>Wendell Cox and Ronald Utt suggest that smart growth abuses are creating a "Rent Belt" of high-Cost areas.</p>
Governments Subsidizing 'Server Farms'
<p>Amid a flurry of subsidies in other states offered to companies like Microsoft and Yahoo!, Google plans to open a $600 million data center in Lenoir, North Carolina, population 17,000. The city will offer a generous tax break and a state grant.</p>
Students 'Engineer' Cities Around A Toxic Future
<p>The national association of engineers sponsors a "Future City Competition' in which junior high school students design a city, based on the premise that toxic chemicals have rendered the planet uninhabitable.</p>
UCLA v. USC: Can London-Style Congestion Pricing Work in the U.S.?
<p>USC's Peter Gordon squares off against UCLA's Matthew Kahn in the Wall Street Journal's ECONBLOG to debate whether London's style of congestion pricing is the right answer for U.S. traffic.</p>
Columnist Lampoons LA's Deputy Mayor for Transportation on His Hummer
<p>Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez takes the city's Deputy Mayor for Transportation to task for driving a Hummer. 'It's smaller than a Yukon.'</p>