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Urban Planning Discussed at Conference Today in Balboa Park

All day today in The Prado at Balboa Park is a public conference titled “Great Parks, Squares and Community Gathering Spaces.” The event is sponsored by the San Diego Center City Development Corpora

All day today in The Prado at Balboa Park is a public conference titled “Great Parks, Squares and Community Gathering Spaces.” The event is sponsored by the San Diego Center City Development Corporation and is intended to discuss ways of making the downtown area more people-friendly and more interesting.

CCDC President Nancy Graham says with all the recent construction downtown, it's important to get some public involvement in the planning.

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Graham : We're calling them conversations that want to engage the community about our downtown architecture, urban design -- the public realm. What happens in the space between the buildings, the parks, the plazas and the sidewalks.

Architects and planners from around the country are attending the workshop, hoping to stimulate public discussion about how to design downtown San Diego to be a world class city center.

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