San Diego Seeks To Become A City Of Villages

30 June 2004 - 9:00am

San Diego's planning director Gail Goldberg discusses the challenges of coordinating urban infill and infrastructure investment.

In an effort to show visible examples of its City of Villages strategy for neighborhood development, the city of San Diego recently launched a series of pilot village projects. TPR interviews Gail Goldberg, Planning Director for the city of San Diego, in which she elaborates on the rollout of the City of Villages strategy and, more generally, on the challenges of smart growth practices in California.

Source: The Planning Report, June 30, 2004
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This is in fact the kind of self-sufficient, self-sustaining 'village' community that Mahatma Gandhi -- the Father of the Nation -- dreamt of and wrote about in his books on India’s path to development.