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.
Tel Aviv Permitting: The Seven Circles Of Hell
Is your city's permitting process difficult? The Tel Aviv Municipality (Israel) permitting system is much, much worse.
WTC Design Process On Fresh Air
Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for the The New Yorker magazine, discusses Libeskind's winning proposal and the WTC selection process on Fresh Air.
WTC Design: Will The Vision Be Lost?
The design selected for the WTC site was not the same design the public saw. Both teams were forced to significantly revise their proposals...
Don't Abandon HOPE
New Urbanists make a plea for saving HOPE -- a program for converting failed public housing projects to mixed-income developments.
Can Houston Be Retrofit?
Houston has never made small plans. Now the city is developing an ambitious plan to retrofit a city that has been shaped by sprawl.