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: The Future Of The American Metropolis?
Bruce Katz identifies the key challenges the smart-growth movement needs to address if it is going to succeed.
How Large Can A City Get And Survive?
The Globe and Mail compares Los Angeles and Toronto and asks how large a city can get before it starts to fall apart. Does LA's secession foreshadow things to come?
Do Planners And Architects Connect In Academia?
Debate rages over whether Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning should be saved. Are the three disciplines too far removed from one another?
LA Secession Battle Enters Final Hours
Secession efforts in the nation's second-largest city appear doomed to failure.
Unplanned Telecom Corridor Markets
Allowing deregulated telecommunications companies the power of eminent domain to build-out the "Information Superhighway" abrogates the Constitutional contract of just compensation.