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.
Smart Tool
Cape Coral, Florida, uses an interactive growth model to plot its future intelligently.
Sprawl And Urban Growth
Sprawl is not the result of explicit government policies or bad urban planning, but rather the inexorable product of car-based living.
Rethinking Parking Requirements
One of the biggest barriers to new development in urban areas is parking.
AOL Time Warner's New $2.2-billion Home
Building the opulet $2.2-billion AOL Time Warner Center along Manhattan's Columbus Circle is like "mounting two, 900-lb gorillas on a jungle gym..."
Southern California's Dirty Harbor Secret
Even Southern California's wealthy communities are feeling the effects of years of unchecked urban runoff and silt.