Smart growth won't work in a 'dumb growth' landscape, says the city manager for Ventura, California. He offers an alternative model for growth.
Rick Cole, currently the City Manager of Ventura, California, has been for years a leading Southern California voice for good government and planning. Cole has been City Manager of Azusa, and before that served as Mayor of Pasadena. The Planning Report publishes excerpts from a recent speech he delivered as part of the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development's Urban Growth Seminar lecture series, titled "Smart Growth in Southern California: How Pasadena Made It Happen; How Ventura Will Make It Happen."
"...Here's the problem: We keep trying to do smart growth projects in a 'dumb growth' landscape. And we wonder why they dont work. Its like trying to run Microsoft Word on an Apple computer. We get all these error messages, and its really frustrating. And yet, we keep trying to do smart growth projects. Instead, we have to establish a new operating system...New Urbanism."
Thanks to Chris Steins
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