Preparing the soil for UC San Diego : land, thoroughfares, and local expectations

With a title borrowed from Army Corps of Engineers protocol for removing ordnance from abandoned firing ranges, this essay recounts post-war decisions leading to the use of former military acreage for a university campus. After six decades of astonishing growth, UC San Diego anchors the Torrey Pines Mesa science and technology complex, seen as one of the major concentrations of intellectual capital in the nation. Dreamers and planners everywhere can learn by examining the publicly endorsed initiatives that generated this achievement.

• 2017

• Fisher, Jack C., 1937-

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• San Diego (California)

• University of California, San Diego

• History
• Land use

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[La Jolla, California] :, [UC San Diego Library],

• Fisher, Jack C., 1937-
• UCSD Emeriti Association

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