San Diego Needs to Toot Its Own Horn

Whitlock: “The National Geographic program came out last year at this time, ranking San Diego as a Smart City, and that didn’t get promoted enough; it should have been pressed hard.”

SAN DIEGO—The city should be more outspoken about its accomplishments in technology and its ranking as a Smart City, Architectural Concepts’ principal and creative director Margit Whitlock tells GlobeSt.com. We spoke exclusively with Whitlock, a spokesperson for the San Diego Architectural Foundation, after Context Vol.3, “A Day on the Bay,” a two-part event organized by SDAF that took place Downtown recently and exposed the public to planned development in the San Diego Bay region. The event included a free expo and information fair followed by a ticketed reception and presentation. Speakers during the panel presentation included City of San Diego’s deputy COO David Graham, Port of San Diego’s director of environmental and land-use management Jason Giffen, City of San Diego Commissioner Bob Nelson, Chula Vista city manager Gary Halbert and principal and founder of Luce et Studio Architects in La Jolla Jennifer Luce. We spoke exclusively with Whitlock, who was instrumental in organizing the event for SDAF, about the highlights.

GlobeSt.com: What was the outcome of “A Day on the Bay”?