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 Growth Plan For Greater Toronto Area
An unlikely smart growth panel is poised to release two reports that could fundamentally alter the direction of urban development in Ontario.
Mansionization: A National Problem
Sam Hall Kaplan examines how one of the first communities in the nation to be afflicted with mansionization has fared.
Mall Takeover Tug-of-War Continues
The country's largest shopping center operator has lined up another ally to control public shareholders of the Bloomfield Hills mall developer.
A Threat Comes To Pass
A landowner drops historic properties in a high-stakes gamble.
The Origin Of The Spanish Academy
The richness of the classical tradition is due to the variety of antique sources the interpretations of them from age to age.