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.
Transit In Los Angeles: It's Entertainment
The problem with rail in Los Angeles is that we treat it as transit. That's all wrong. We should actually look at it as entertainment.
Anti-Sprawl Policies: Hazardous To Our Wealth
The California San Joaquin Valley's air pollution is not of its own making --- it is being exported from elsewhere.
L.A.'s First Segway Rider
Bruce Weinberg, a Los Angeles resident, was one of 30 residents nationwide to receive a pre-release Segway.
L.A.'s Underground Freeway?
The 30-year effort to complete the Long Beach (710) freeway extension may end up being a tunnel.
Fastest Growing 'Boomer' Suburbs
The suburbs of major metropolitan areas are aging faster than the nation as a whole.