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.
Aerial Photographs Of The 1906 Earthquake
A website includes breathtaking aerial photos from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Discovering Liferay
<img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//liferay_thumb1.gif" alt="Liferay thumb" align="right"/>I just discovered <a href="http://www.liferay.com/home/index.jsp">Liferay</a>, an open source portal, after reading <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/">David Fletcher's discussion</a> of Portal Architectures on his blog.<br /> <br /> Although I have seen and evaluated <a href="http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/">PHP Website"</a>, I haven't seen see Liferay, which is equally -- perhaps more -- impressive.
The Perfect Storm Of Urban Planning Gone Wrong?
How Berlin went awry since the fall of the wall.
Small Cars In The Land Of SUVs
An Acura driver gets a ticket for parking in a parking spot reserved for SUVs.
The Emergence Of Geoportals
A new academic paper traces the emergence of geoportals -- the next big thing for geographic information and e-government.