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Building Cities in the Virtual World
It's time for Web 2.0.

By Chris Steins and Josh Stephens
Planning (April, 2008)

Web 2.0 Technologies to Communicate Planning Ideas
By Chris Steins
2007 Ohio Planning Conference, "Innovations in Planning" (September 19-21, 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
"South Bay's Digital Future: How It Will Change Everything," (February 23, 2006)

Seven Criteria for Evaluating Open-Source Content Management Systems
By Abhijeet Chavan
If you're new to open-source CMSes, here are some guidelines to help you find the best one for your project.
Linux Journal (May, 2005)

Open-Source Learning Management with Moodle
by Abhijeet Chavan and Shireen Pavri
Want to teach a class on-line? 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 Association (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 (September, 2002)
Planning

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)

Eight Technology Trends for 2001
By Chris Steins and Abhijeet Chavan
California Planner (January, 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)

The Planner's Internet Toolkit
By Chris Steins
Conference of the California Chapter, American Planning Association (October, 2000)

Gadgets: Affordable Gear For the Wired Professional
By Abhijeet Chavan and Chris Steins
Planning (July, 2000)

How are Real Estate and Urban Planning Professionals Using the Web?
By Ali Valenzuela
Urban Land Institute, Los Angeles Newsletter (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)

eLinux Invites Southern California LUGs

By Abhijeet Chavan
Linuxpower (May, 2000)

Encouraging Responsible Linux Businesses

By Abhijeet Chavan
Linuxpower (February, 2000)

OSes They Are A-Changin
By Abhijeet Chavan
Linux Today (February, 2000)

e-Insider: How to Navigate the Real Estate Maze
By Chris Steins and Abhijeet Chavan
Real Estate Southern California (December, 1999)

Planning Technologies for the New Millennium: A Field Report from Comdex Fall '99
By Abhijeet Chavan and Chris Steins
Planning (November, 1999)

Your Web Site: What's In It for Your Business?
By James Carberry and Chris Steins (October, 1999)

Open for Business: Remembering the Linux Business Expo Fall 1999

By Abhijeet Chavan
Linuxpower (Fall, 1999)

High Tech Careers: Psst! I Majored in English
By Chris Steins
Newsweek (May, 1999)

Advice For Getting Your Business Online
By Chris Steins
Los Angeles Business Journal (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)

Comdex 99: At the Linux Pavilion
By Abhijeet Chavan
Linuxpower (1999)

GRASS Is Now Greener: A Geographic Information System Joins the GPL Family
By Abhijeet Chavan (1999)
Linuxpower

The Future of the Linux Desktop
By Abhijeet Chavan
Linuxpower (1999)

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