These days, a lot of projects are crashing through the gates of community plans and dashing existing neighborhood character under[Read More...]
San Diego’s Railroad Deja Vu
April 6, 2013 By
In the late 1800s, San Diego lost the race with Los Angeles to become the western terminus of a transcontinental[Read More...]
The Balboa Park Plaza de Panama Centennial Project is Dead: So Now What?
February 8, 2013 By
On February 4, 2013, a San Diego Superior Court judge rejected the City’s plans to vacate traffic from Balboa Park,[Read More...]
San Diego’s Parking Lot Blight; Requiem for Redevelopment
January 18, 2013 By
An ugly side of redevelopment (RIP), a side rarely mentioned in all the self-laudatory hype, is the demolition. Too often[Read More...]
Part IV The Invisible City: re-imagining Paradise
May 12, 2012 By
San Diego – All aboard! Quest to restore historic San Diego streetcars gives local antique dealer chance to give back, beat[Read More...]
Part III The invisible city: re-imagining Paradise
April 14, 2012 By
San Diego – This week, Howard Blackson, principal, and director of planning at PlaceMakers [www.placemakers.com] sits down to re-imagine Paradise.