Daniel Weinberg, Associate Professor of History at San Diego State University, discusses key factors in the development of the city, namely its terrain and the work of early developers.
Richard Pourade, editor emeritus of the San Diego Union and author of a 7-volume series of books on San Diego history, compares the history of Los Angeles' development to that of San Diego.
Lee Grissom, executive vice president of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, discusses the need for San Diego to have an image distinct from Los Angeles.
Orian W. Todd Jr., local businessman, briefly talks about the difference in San Diego leadership of the early 20th century compared to the late 1970s.

The program concludes with an in-depth panel discussion by two long-time observers of the San Diego scene: KFMB reporter and San Diego Magazine journalist Harold Keen, and Evening Tribune columnist and author Neil Morgan. The two are joined by Clare Crane and comment on the following themes:

the role of individuals in the urbanization of a community;
the nature of the decision-making process;
a debate over managed growth policy, which the San Diego City Council adopted at the time as a method of halting urban sprawl and redirecting growth to inner city areas in order to revitalize them.

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