Whose City?

Host Larry Herzog speaks with architect Frank Wolden and urban designer Howard Blackson about their ideas for designing for higher density and mixed use in the San Diego-Tijuana region.

Host Larry Herzog speaks with Serge Dedina, Ph. D., Mayor of Imperial Beach and Executive Director of Wildcoast about the challenges of pollution in the Tijuana River Estuary.

Larry Herzog invites affordable housing advocate and President/CEO of the San Diego Housing Federation Steven Russell to talk about housing markets, policy and the search for better policy solutions to the affordable housing problem in the U.S.

Host Larry Herzog chats with East Los Angeles urban planner James Rojas about his views on public space, architecture, sustainability, mindfulness, and planning in Latino neighborhoods.

Host Larry Herzog speaks with veteran reporter Sandra Dibble about her experiences covering Tijuana and the border for nearly three decades. Sandra discusses the powerful feeling of community spirit and social connection she experienced living in and writing about Tijuana. She highlights unique neighborhoods, and places, as well as the challenges the city faces.

Host Larry Herzog invites Christine Jones, Chief of Civic Art Strategies, and Charles (Chuck) Miller, Senior Public Art Manager (both at the City of San Diego, Commission for Arts and Culture) to talk about public art in the San Diego-Tijuana region.

Host Larry Herzog talks with SANDAG (San Diego Association of Governments) CEO Hasan Ikhrata and Deputy CEO Coleen Clementson about the future of transit mobility and infrastructure in the San Diego/Baja mega-region.

Larry Herzog invites Mexicali-based architect and author Hector Manuel Lucero to speak about his home city, the Baja California state capital of Mexicali, and possible urban design changes for the future.

Host Larry Herzog has a conversation with Miguel Marshall, founder, and CEO of Centro Ventures, a Tijuana-based urban development group focusing on border urban revitalization projects.

Host Larry Herzog speaks with two experts on homelessness in San Diego—Dr. Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell and Dr. Leslie Lewis, both professors at the University of California, San Diego in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

Host Larry Herzog chats with Rob Hutsel, President and CEO of the San Diego River Foundation, to discuss the ecological preservation of the San Diego River's 445 square mile watershed, which runs through the heart of the urbanized region.

Host Larry Herzog invites Mexican architect and urbanist Rene Peralta to speak about the challenges of managing the Tijuana River watershed, the main river running through the Tijuana, Mexico border metropolis. Peralta also introduces his solar energy development proposal for the existing Tijuana River concrete flood channel.

Host Larry Herzog welcomes Michele Morris, Associate Director of UCSD's Design Lab, along with Laura Araujo, Binational Affairs Director of Tijuana Innovadora to discuss the meaning of "design" and "design innovation" and the exciting prospect of Tijuana-San Diego winning the competition to become the 2024 World Design Capital.

Host Larry Herzog interviews Tijuana communication and design consultant Katalina Silva and architect James Brown to discuss the future of Friendship Park, a small, but vibrant community space tucked into the corner where the Tijuana-San Diego border meets the Pacific Ocean. Must frontier zones only be viewed as dangerous places that need to be protected? Or can they also be meeting places for fam...

Podcast host Dr. Larry Herzog speaks with Baja California energy and policy consultant Mario Lopez and architecture & planning professor Michael Stepner about the complex and hot topic of border walls vs. the border crossing experience, and the future of infrastructure and planning at the ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexican border.

El Cajon Boulevard, like San Diego, is experiencing and urban renaissance and a new mobility future... right now. Let's talk Complete Streets, BRT, Connectivity, Community, and City Heights! Howard Blackson and Dr. Larry Herzog dig a little deeper into the roots of the Boulevard with Gary Weber of the El Cajon Boulevard Business Improvement Association joins us in the discussion.

Special Guest, landscape architect extraordinaire, Vicki Estrada, discusses the future of Balboa Park's Plaza de Panama and beyond!

Co-hosts Larry Herzog and Howard Blackson explore the future of Mission Valley, including its hyper-dependence on the automobile, and the need to redesign it around the San Diego River. Ballot box proposals for the former Qualcomm site are discussed. Well-known city planner Michael Stepner comes in for an interview in the second half.

Howard and Larry review the history and context for the writing of Kevin Lynch and Donald Appleyard's 1974 seminal study "Temporary Paradise", considered one of the most significant outside consultant reports for any city in the United States.  They then bring urban planning professor Bruce Appleyard, son of Donald Appleyard, into the studio for an interview about the book.