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Portland State University

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Cities and towns -- Growth -- Oregon -- Environmental aspects

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Defining Issues: An Outline For The Future Of Our Region, Portland State University. Institute Of Portland Metropolitan Studies Jul 1999

Defining Issues: An Outline For The Future Of Our Region, Portland State University. Institute Of Portland Metropolitan Studies

Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies Publications

Exploration of critical "super-regional" issues defined at the 1998 Annual Leadership Conference.


Planning In The Portland Region: Lessons And Legacy, Ethan Seltzer Jun 1995

Planning In The Portland Region: Lessons And Legacy, Ethan Seltzer

Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies Publications

This paper examines the path that Portland and its region has taken from being a place showing little evidence of "modern city planning practice" to its current and apparently much more attractive state. First, a cautionary note. We have probably been both more and less successful than it sounds. Stories of municipal accomplishment tend to take on greater dimension the further you get from home. Take this one with a grain of salt. From the outside looking in, condition what you see with the following: First, there are no silver bullets or supremely right answers. It takes a mix of …