April 4, 2002

A Mission to Build Better Neighborhoods by Design

By David Whelan

Augusta Catalina Del Zotto was born in the Outer Mission, a working-class San Francisco neighborhood populated by a mosaic of first- and second-generation immigrants from many different countries. Except for a stint in a Syracuse, N.Y., graduate program, she has never lived away from her hometown.

Now Ms. Del Zotto, the daughter of a stonemason, is returning to the community-organizing work she began at age 14 in San Francisco, this time by taking the reins of Asian Neighborhood

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