Edward J. Mooney, President, M.T.G., Inc.
Director, Information Technology, Schools of Policy, Planning, and Development and Social Work, University of Southern California (Retired)

"I have worked with Urban Insight for over three years during which they have provided technical project management services for a variety of web and database projects we have undertaken. I have been continually impressed with their responsiveness, follow-through, attention to detail, and, in particular, their ability to communicate complex technology concepts in a clear and straightforward way."

Linda Wong, Project Director
Los Angeles County Regional Workforce Preparation & Economic Development Collaborative
Community Development Technologies Center

"ULI Los Angeles, a district council of the Urban Land Institute, considers Urban Insight to be one of its most important leaders and supporters. Thanks to the Urban Insight team, ULI Los Angeles pioneered the ULI district council use of a website and continues to be the innovator of web-based strategies with the Institute. We consider our web site and the ongoing support from Urban Insight to be one of our district council's most prominent and valuable assets."

Susan Kamei, Executive Director
Urban Land Institute, Los Angeles

"We recently completely redesigned our Web site. The professional staff at Urban Insight worked directly with us to implement our design ideas and contributed their expertise to create a website that met our needs and provided the cutting-edge look we were hoping to achieve. The staff was immediately responsive to our questions and comments and worked to meet our time frame, in fact even completing the project ahead of schedule."

Sonia Savoulian, Director, Alumni and Student Services
Lusk Center for Real Estate, University of Southern California

"We work with business and civic leaders in regions around the state of California, all trying to address macro-regional issues, including the need for better planning. In this civic work, led by busy people acting in a volunteer capacity, good information easily accessed is an essential tool.

Urban Insight built and helps maintain the CCRL website and assists with our CalRegions newsletter, helping us to model the use of state of the art technology for public interest purposes. And we are a regular consumer of PLANetizen, which is among our best sources for timely and useful information that keeps us and our regional partners in touch with new ideas, best practices, and important policy initiatives."

Nick Bollman, Director
California Center for Regional Leadership

"We operate a fast-growing retail catalog Ecommerce website, and have used several web firms for design, maintenance and hosting. Of all the ones I've ever interviewed or worked with, none comes close to Urban Insight. Whenever there's a problem, a question, or a tech issue we just don't understand, we turn to Urban Insight. The answer is always clear, professional, knowledgeable, and prompt... they really know how to take care of a client!"

Ray Allen, Owner
AmericanMeadows.com

The following are comments from readers about PLANetizen, the urban planning information site supported by Urban Insight.


"Every so often, through word-of-mouth, one hears about a web site that connects you to a wealth of information and becomes indispensable. PLANetizen is one of those. The premier site for planning-related news on the Web, it is beautifully designed, well-organized, and flawlessly timely. PLANetizen is an invaluable resource for researchers, faculty, students, and professionals who want to remain current in the field. I highly recommend it."

Julie A. Dercle, Ph.D., AICP, Assistant Professor
Urban Studies and Planning Program/Dept. of Geography
California State University, Northridge

"...But perhaps the most important aspect about PLANetizen is that it provides individuals and organizations an opportunity to connect with tens of thousands of local planners, politicians, researchers, advocates, and even the general public. Innovatively, the website created content by providing individuals with an opportunity to put their own research, news articles, local studies, and plans in front of a nationwide audience. One of my most difficult tasks is getting our research on urban and metropolitan policies and patterns in the hands of the local planners on the ground who really matter the most when it comes down to it. PLANetizen provides that avenue.

Kurt Sommer
The Brookings Institution

"Allow me once again to praise your service. PLANetizen provides unprecedented, virtually instant exposure to the important and interesting issues central and tangential to planning. I have learned more from your service than from any other medium in my twenty-five years as a professional planner. Thanks for this outstanding resource."

Lori Parcells, Director
Planning and Research Department, City of Inglewood, CA

"PLANetizen is by far the best planning site out there. It keeps me in touch with all the planning issues. I'm really impressed."

Shawn Escoffery, Director of Workforce Development
Empower Baltimore Management Corporation

"PLANetizen has become a standard source of planning news and topics not only for planners throughout California and the U.S., but also worldwide. Planners can now easily post information and announcements as well. It was the Los Angeles American Planning Association's Innovative Use of Technology Award because of its creative use of the Internet and its increasing popularity among planners and those interested in planning information."

Stanley Hoffman, President
Stanley R. Hoffman Associates