Week 10

During our last regular lecture (Mar. 13) we will discuss efforts in our own backyard to promote sustainable development---and we'll point to initiatives that you can join if you like. We will focus on two organizations in particular: SANDAG and the RWBC. Thursday (Mar. 15) will be devoted to review

SANDAG provides the public forum for regional policy decisions about growth, transportation planning and funding, transit construction, environmental management, economic development, housing, open space, energy, public safety, and binational topics. SANDAG is this region’s ssociation of local governments composed of 18 cities and the county government. SANDAG policymakers are mayors, councilmembers, and a county supervisor from each of the region's 19 local governments.

SANDAG created a Regional Comprehensive Plan. This document will give you a good overview of the efforts underway and planned for the next 20 years or so.

San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, by Keith Pezzoli, July 30, 2004
San Diego 's Regional Comprehensive Plan: Reason for optimism? (click here)

Regional Workbench Consortium Wins Award from San Diego Chapter of the
American Planning Association (APA) Article by Paul Tooby, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Published: August 4th, 2004

The Regional Workbench Consortium (RWBC), part of the Superfund Basic Research Project (SBRP) at UC San Diego, and an SDSC partner, received a First Place Award in the category of Academic Leadership and Service from the San Diego Section of the American Planning Association. The award was presented at the American Planning Association Awards ceremony on June 3, 2004 at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla, and makes the RWBC eligible to compete for a statewide award from the California Chapter of the American Planning Association. "The challenges our region faces today are complex, intertwined social, economic, and environmental problems, and the solutions come from interdisciplinary efforts," said consortium co-organizer Keith Pezzoli, co-director of the Outreach Core of UCSD's SBRP and a faculty member in UCSD's Urban Studies and Planning Program. "This award reflects the truly remarkable collaborative nature of the Regional Workbench Consortium, which is becoming a model of partnerships for our region." An outreach activity for the SBRP, the RWBC is a collaborative network of university and community-based partners dedicated to enabling sustainable city-region development. As part of this effort, SDSC researchers Richard Marciano, director of the DAKS Sustainable Archives and Library Technologies (SALT) Lab, and Ilya Zaslavsky, director of the DAKS Spatial Information Systems Lab, are integrating advanced knowledge-based and spatial information systems technologies into a network of tools and information in the RWBC's website. Zaslavsky is providing interactive mapping technologies and Marciano is applying historical information science in the RWBC's regional planning setting. The RWBC promotes multidisciplinary research and service learning aimed at understanding how problems of environment and development interrelate across local, regional, and global scales. Taking a forward-looking perspective, the RWBC focuses on the Southern California-Northern Baja California transborder region, especially the San Diego-Tijuana city region and coastal zone. UCSD's SBRP has the goal of implementing modern scientific approaches to identify and characterize the genomic stress responses that are brought on by waterborne pollutants found at Superfund sites. The program consists of nine research projects, seven of them biomedical, along with research support, administrative, and outreach and training activities including the RWBC. --Paul Tooby.
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The RWBC is a federated partnership. As such, there are many projects we aim to support and cross reference to oneanother. The intent is to create synergies through new types of association in theory-building and practice. Over the long term, the RWBC aims to integrate a broad range of projects as outlined in our draft conceptual matrix (click here, pdf file). Elements for integration include substantive challenges of sustainable development (e.g., equity, economic efficiency, environmental stewardship), as well as spatial dimensions (e.g., local, regional and global scales) (click here, pdf file).

Final Exam
Winter 2007, Monday, Mar. 20 (8:00am-11:00am)
Review Session in-class Thursday, March 15th.

The exam will be composed of multiple choice, definitions, short answers, and an essay question.

Final Exam Study Guide (draft version)
NOTE: We (the professor, TAs, students) will work together to modifiy the contents of this study guide during the last few weeks of the quarter. We will improve this guide together by highlighting those aspects of the course that you find most interesting (and worth studying in some depth).