Fri Dec 8, 2006
Popular lore holds that California's two most prominent cities define two faces of California--the dense old world in the north and the auto-metropolis in the south. But it's easy to focus on icons that belie the true nature of their urban fabric when, in fact, these two great cities share so much. Both are struggling to balance growth, affordability and livability; civic identity with regionalism; and local ambitions with state rules that complicate financing and often favor sprawl over density. And both are learning from each other as they lead California into the 21st century.
Please join the Westside Urban Forum and the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Center (SPUR) for the first-ever joint breakfast session bringing San Francisco's Chief Planner, Amit Ghosh, Ph.D. together with L.A.’s own Planning Director, Gail Goldberg for a candid dialog on the challenges and ambitions California's two urban regions share. WUF President Mott Smith will moderate.
This event has been made possible in part through the generous support of the David Bohnett Foundation.
