Retired From City Management But Still In-the-Game

4 June 2004 - 12:00pm

Former CAO of Culver City, Mark Winogrond reflects on the state of planning in California and the need for planners to be more proactive in determining the future of their respective communities.

Budget battles over the years have been unkind to city planning departments, gutting them of the resources needed to actually be the architects of their cities’ futures. TPR is pleased to present this interview with Mark Winogrond, Principal of Planmark Associates, in which he addresses the need for municipal planning departments to assert more influence over the future of their communities and establish a sense of ‘place.”

Source: The Planning Report, May 28, 2004
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