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Housing/ Colonias
COLONIAS
The “Colonia
10 de Mayo” Project: Creating a Collaborative Plan for
Community Redevelopment and
Transnational Investment in Urban Infrastructure at the San Diego-Tijuana
Border
Co-PIs: Keith Pezzoli, Carlos Graizbord (Director, Instituto Municipal
de Planeación, Tijuana), Pablo Bransbord (Instituto Municipal
de Planeación, Tijuana), and Ilya Zaslavsky (Associate Research
Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center). Project managers: Andrea
Groves, Dennis Selder, and Paul Akins. Technical Staff leader: Marcel
Sanchez.
Abstract (funded by the UCSD Civic Collaborative)
This project supports a collaborative community-based planning project
in Tijuana. The focus is on a low-income human settlement called
Colonia 10 de Mayo located near the U.S.-Mexico border. Most of
the workers living in this settlement are employed in nearby maquiladoras.
Our aim---through a collaborative planning process involving a coalition
of university, government, industry, and community stakeholders---is
to create a redevelopment and investment strategy that will mobilize
resources from within the community and attract funding from the
nearby maquiladoras. The working hypothesis is that the San Diego-Tijuana
region’s comparative advantage and regional competitiveness
will suffer unless Transnational Corporations begin to invest more
in local community development and urban infrastructure. This argument
is nothing new; support for this type of linkage is well documented
in the literature on new regionalism; even the OECD advocates this
as a policy approach. The challenge now is to identify barriers
and bridges to making it happen. This effort has been in gestation
for over a year. The project workgroup has completed a model plan,
website and a marketing strategy to fund and implement the plan.
UCSD-TV
did a 20 minute video documentary on the 10 de Mayo project.
(#6022; 56 min.) UCSD Conversations: Crossborder Urban Planning.
The documentary starts three-quarters of the way into a one-hour
program (what UCSD-TV calls "Conversations with UCSD Faculty").
Specifically, it starts at minute 39 as indicated on the Real Player
dial (the first two 20 minute segments focus on biology and pharamacology).
You can also get to it and similar programs by visiting the UCSD-TV
web site:
http://www.ucsd.tv/library-human.asp#ucsd
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