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.
Telecommuting Tops Rail In L.A.
Telecommuters already outnumber rail riders in Los Angeles and could be a big part of a solution that actually reduces traffic in the biggest metropolitan areas.
Bad Plans, Visual Blight In Downtown Cleveland
Some plans are so bad they deserve to die on the drawing board, complains columnist Steve Litt about a new plan to speed traffic through Cleveland's downtown inner belt.
Proposals For A New San Francisco
As the APA conference ends, a former San Francisco planner offers progressive visions for a future San Francisco.
At The Intersection of Technology and Development
<img src="http://photos6.flickr.com/5878672_7ab00e126d.jpg" alt="Front Range" align="right" />Ann Oliveri from the <a href="http://www.uli.org">Urban Land Institute</a> kindly pointed me to an article, <a href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3646692,00.html">Toll road gets tangled in Web of defeat</a>, in the <em>Rocky Mountain News</em>.<br /> <br /> The developer says he was "blindsided" by the rapid an online opposition on legislation that would make it possible for the development of a privately financed <a href="http://www.cololegislativeinfo.com/TRInfo.html">$2 billion tollway</a>
Kunstler's 'Long Emergency'
In an excerpt from his new book, James Howard Kunstler predicts how a future will look without cheap gas.