A Binational Partnership That Works—Urban & Regional Planning

A Binational Partnership That Works—
Urban & Regional Planning

The Regional Workbench Consortium (RWBC)
http://regionalworkbench.org

The RWBC is a collaborative binational network of university and community-based partners dedicated to enabling sustainable city-region development for San Diego-Baja California. RWBC promotes multidisciplinary research and service learning aimed at understanding how problems of environment and development interrelate across local, regional and global scales. Taking a forward-looking perspective, the RWBC focuses on the Southern California-Northern Baja California transborder region - especially the San Diego-Tijuana city-region and coastal zone with a mission to "create innovative research-learning partnerships, planning support systems, and educational tools to enable sustainable city-region development." Among its current projects is collaborative planning for the Tijuana and San Diego River watersheds. Led by the University of California San Diego (UCSD), RWBC’s partners include: the San Diego Super Computer Center; the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF); Centro de Investigación Científica de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE); UC San Diego, San Diego State University, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), and the Telesis Corporation, among others. RWBC’s Regional Planning Committee is providing advice for preparation and implementation of the San Diego Association of Government’s (SANDAG) Regional Comprehensive Plan which addresses both local and interregional issues to promote the increased utilization of cutting-edge information and visualization technologies for regional planning and decision-making.