Doug Myrland (Guest Host): As we just heard in the previous segment on architectural photography, the character of any community is the sum of its parts - the climate, landscape, history and the built environment. If you don't think the built environment is important, ask yourself why so many tourists go to Paris? Certainly many of them do it to see the built environment: Its beauty and the way it tells the story of the city's history.
That leads us to the question, what do we have here in San Diego? Our homes and buildings do tell a story, but do we have a common agreement about what that story is, and whether it's one that makes our city worth remembering. Getting at the root of our architectural heritage is key to creating the kind of city we want to live in, and to deciding about what buildings need to preserved, and which ones can succumb to the wrecking ball.
Last fall, Tom Fudge talked about San Diego's architectural history. Here's the interview.
Guests
David Marshall, president of Heritage Architecture and Planning in San Diego.
Bruce Coons, executive director of SOHO, the Save Our Heritage Organization.
