All of the following articles have been researched and written by Urban Insight team members.
Case Study - Annenberg Social News Platform
By Wendy M. Chapman, Chris Steins, Abhijeet Chavan, Justin Emond, and Abhijeet Chavan
Drupal.org (September, 2010)
Video Hosting and Integration in Drupal
By Justin Emond
(March, 2010)
Facilitating Public Participation with Web 2.0 & Free Software
By Abhijeet Chavan
47th Annual Conference of the Urban and Regional
Information Systems Assoc. (URISA), (September, 2009)
A Case Study of the NavigateHollywood.com Website
By Nate Berg, Associate Editor, Planetizen
(July, 2009)
Whitepaper: The State of Neighborhood Council Websites in Los Angeles
By Chris Steins, Abhijeet Chavan, Kurt Rademaekers, Cate Miller
(July, 2009)
Top 25 Drupal Themes
By Ishmael Sanchez
(July, 2009)
Top 10 Free Web Applications for Planning
By Chris Steins
Planetizen Interchange (May, 2009)
Louisiana Speaks: A Case Study Examining the Use of Web Technologies to Engage Residents in the Planning Process
By Josie Noah, MPA/MPL Candidate
University of Southern California (May, 2009)
Integrating Drupal and iMIS: ALAconnect Case Study
By Abhijeet Chavan, Ki Kim, Jenny Levine, and Chris Steins
Drupal.org (April, 2009)
Building Cities in the Virtual World
It's time for Web 2.0.
By Chris Steins and Josh Stephens
Planning (April, 2008)
A Technology Plan for your City or Region is Essential
By Charles Kaylor, Scott Page, Chris Steins and Wally Siembab
(January, 2008)
Web 2.0 Technologies to Communicate Planning Ideas
By Chris Steins
2007 Ohio Planning Conference, "Innovations in Planning"
(September, 2007)
Seven Web Development Pitfalls
By Chris Steins
TechSoup: The Technology Place for Nonprofits (March, 2007)
A Parallel Universe: What the virtual world can do for planning
By Chris Steins
Planning (January, 2007)
Migrating to Drupal: Why and how the Planetizen Web site migrated to the Drupal infrastructure for communities
By Abhijeet Chavan and Michael Jelks
Linux Journal (November, 2006)
Use of Web Technology By U.S. Planning Agencies: Results from a National Benchmarking Survey
By David M. Simpson
Excerpt from the International City/County Management Association Municipal Yearbook (2005)
Top 8 Technologies for Planning, 2006
By Chris Steins
Seventh Annual General Assembly of the South Bay Cities of Governments (February, 2006)
Seven Criteria
for Evaluating Open-Source Content Management Systems
By Abhijeet Chavan
Linux Journal (May, 2005)
Open-Source Learning Management with Moodle
By Abhijeet Chavan and Shireen Pavri
Share notes, answer questions and give
exams with this educator-proven free software.
Linux Journal (December, 2004)
Developing an Open Source Content Management Strategy For E-Government
By Abhijeet Chavan
42nd Annual Conference of the Urban and Regional
Information Systems Assoc. (URISA), (November, 2004)
Today's Scheme for Tomorrow's Technology
By Charles H. Kaylor and Christopher Steins
Planning (July, 2004)
Doing the Right Thing:
How to Build Socially Responsible Web Infrastructure
By Abhijeet Chavan and Chris Steins
Planning (July, 2003)
E-Government: The Top 10 Technologies
By Chris Steins
Planning (September, 2002)
The Shape of Digital Things to Come
By Christian Peralta
Planning (September, 2002)
A Web For Everyone: Creating Accessible Planning Websites
By Abhijeet Chavan and Chris Steins
Planning (July, 2001)
Planner's Technology Tools For Citizen Participation
Edited By Chris Steins
Conference of the American Planning Association (March, 2001)
East St. Louis Neighborhood Condition Survey:
Collecting Data for a Community Development Project
By Abhijeet Chavan (December, 2000)
Government to Business (G2B) Websites
By James Carberry and Christopher Steins
Urban Land (December, 2000)
Gadgets: Affordable Gear For the Wired Professional
By Abhijeet Chavan and Chris Steins
Planning (July, 2000)
Closing the Divide: Urban Technology Initiatives Are Affecting Land Use in Los Angeles.
By Thomas Tseng, Abhijeet Chavan, and Chris Steins
Urban Land (May, 2000)
Encouraging Responsible Linux Businesses
By Abhijeet Chavan
Linuxpower (February, 2000)
OSes They Are A-Changin
By Abhijeet Chavan
Linux Today (February, 2000)
Planning Technologies for the New Millennium: A Field Report from Comdex Fall '99
By Abhijeet Chavan and Chris Steins
Planning (November, 1999)
High Tech Careers: Psst! I Majored in English
By Chris Steins
Newsweek (May, 1999)
'X' Marks the Spot: A New Computer Coding System May Be a Boon to Planners
By Adam Rogers and Chris Steins
Planning (April, 1999)
GRASS Is Now Greener: A Geographic Information System Joins the GPL Family
By Abhijeet Chavan
Linuxpower (1999)

