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.
Buy A School As Your New Home
Urbanites craving a more rural lifestyle for their home or business are buying entire school campuses in the midwest for as little as $25,000.
Collaborative Governance
'Collaborative governance' gives all parties with a stake in a public problem a say in how to resolve it.
What Suburbia Teaches Us
D.J. Waldie examines the Los Angeles suburb of Lakewood as it celebrate its 50-year anniversary as a city.
NAMBIES: Neighbors Against McMansions, Big Invasive Eyesores
A group of homeowners fund the purchase and elegant redesign of a house as an alternative to 'McMansions' in Coconut Grove.
Private Islands Becoming More Affordable
With waterfront real estate prices rising, more buyers are purchasing their own private islands.