Carl Steinitz, Editor

Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning

Chad Adams, Lauren Alexander, James DeNormandie, Ruth Durant, Lois Eberhart, John Felkner, Kathleen Hickey, Andrew Mellinger, Risa Narita, Timothy Slattery, Clotilde Viellard, Yu-Feng Wang, E. Mitchell Wright

Harvard University

Graduate School of Design

1997

This report describes the process and products of a Fall 1996 studio at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The studio explored urban growth and change in the rapidly developing region located between San Diego and Los Angeles, California, at four scales–the region as a whole, the Temecula Valley, a new urban center, and five typical sites–to the years 2010 and 2030.

This report describes the pressures created by the trend of urbanization, proposes an alternative conservation and design strategy, outlines some important costs and benefits, and offers suggestions for implementation.

This study of urban growth and change in the region between San Diego and Los Angeles, California, is the product of student work in a graduate-level studio at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The project has been sponsored by the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and there is no consultative relationship between any stakeholder organizations or individuals in the study region and Harvard University, its faculty or students. The work presented here is the full responsibility of the students who were members of the studio group.

This summary of the group’s findings presents issues, planning strategies, and design proposals. Its primary purpose is one of mutual education: for the students who are or will become professionals in landscape architecture, architecture, urban and regional planning and design; and for the stakeholders of the region, who have the responsibility for developing their own proposals and who may benefit from the insights and ideas developed by the students.

Carl Steinitz

Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning

Harvard University, Graduate School of Design

Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

1997