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.
Before The Oil Runs Out: How Will This Era End?
The world is swimming in crude, but it's getting costlier to extract, and demand is rising fast. Is it the end of the line for cheap oil? CSM offers a three-part series.
Los Angeles Grapples With Saving Its Murals
The preservation of urban wall art is stirring controversy in the city and around the country.
Building America's Longest Underground Highways
As land becomes more scarce and traffic gets progressively worse, Southern California's transit planners begin to look seriously at underground highways.
An American Diaspora Mapped
E-Podunk uses 40,000 Internet postings by Katrina survivors to create a compelling map showing the exodus of Gulf Coast refugees across the United States.
Rethinking the Future of the Federal Surface Transportation Program
Beyond fiscal year 2009, the future of the surface transportation program appears murky.