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 he San Diego region is facing a pro- jected growth
of one million people over the next 20 years. What effect will
this have on the quality of life we have always taken for granted?
How can we accommodate this population increase? Can we afford
to maintain the status quo? Prevailing assumptions and policies
seem to encourage the balkanization of land use decisions, the
serious lag in housing production in relation to job creation,
the increase in poverty side by side with new prosperity, and
the growing deficit in basic public facilities in our urban neighborhoods.
 It has
become increasing apparent that success in balancing economic
growth with quality of life will require a shift in our perspective
a new vision defined by cooperative regional responses addressing
equity and changes in regional governance.
On Tuesday,
May 16, 2000 at 7pm, the San Diego State University Graduate
Program in City Planning presents Norman Krumholz, one of the
most prominent figures in the nation on regional cooperation,
equity, and smart growth.
Norman Krumholz
is a Professor in the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland
State University. He is also President of the American Institute
of Certified Planners (1999-2001), and past President of the
American Planning Association. Prior to his joining the faculty
at CSU, Krumholz served as a planning practitioner in Ithaca,
Pittsburgh and Cleveland where he was planning director for ten
years under Mayors Carl B. Stokes, Ralph J. Perk and Dennis J.
Kucinich.
Professor
Krumholz has written or edited several books on planning and
urban neighborhoods and has published in many professional journals.
His book Making Equity Planning Work (with Professor John
Forrester) won the Paul Davidoff award for best progressive book
of the year from the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning.
Krumholz's
equity planning practice on behalf of the poor and working class
people of Cleveland has become a national model for planners
in other large cities who are struggling to retain their industrial
and economic base while making their neighborhoods more livable.
Norman Krumholz's
talk, "Smart Growth, Regionalism and Equity," will
take place on Tuesday, May 16 at 7pm at Hardy Tower 140 (under
the Bell Tower) on the SDSU Campus. Free parking has been reserved
on the last two floors of parking structure #4. The lecture will
be followed by ample opportunity for comments, questions and
answers.
The San Diego
Region is at a crossroad and the future is cloudy. Come and learn
about what opportunities exist that can lead us toward a sustainable
San Diego. 
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