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.
Can A Regional Agency Force Growth In Local Cities?
Lake Elmo and the regional Metropolitan Council battle over whether the Council can force growth into unwilling local cities.
Farmers Fighting Sprawl In California's Central Valley
In California's Central Valley, farmers form a strategy for steering growth.
Downtown Parking Destroys City Character
An editorial in The Philadelphia Inquirer clearly explains why more downtown parking is the wrong approach to planning.
Genes, Estrogen, And A Roomy Earth
Reason looks back at 2002's science and environmental policy stories.
Postmodern Monstrosities For Downtown
The newest proposals for Ground Zero understand nothing about New York.