
Mayor Murphy's city of villages: a never-neverland kind of plan
Somewhere over the rainbow, in a San Diego not long ago, single-family homes, safe cul de sacs, wide boulevards and car friendly neighborhood shopping centers were the stuff of planners' dreams. And then came Mayor Murphy's City of Villages. Car culture planning had produced dozens of master planned communities in the city of San Diego like Carmel Valley, Otay Mesa and Rancho Penasquitos, built by the region's biggest developers according to regulations imposed by government