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The Landscape: Quiet Places, Elizabeth Mylott, Kenya D. Williams
The Landscape: Quiet Places, Elizabeth Mylott, Kenya D. Williams
Metroscape
How does sound affect the urban experience? Recently, acoustics ecologists who study relationships among human beings, communities, and environments have been drawing attention to the potential adverse and pleasurable effects of aural surroundings on physical and behavioral responses. Such reactions to soundscapes are often unnoticed due to passive hearing versus active listening. Cities are often dismissed as loud areas with noisy and annoying soundscapes. However, some parks and gardens within cities are designed, at least in part, for calm and quiet.
Indicators Of The Metroscape: Immigration, Elizabeth Mylott
Indicators Of The Metroscape: Immigration, Elizabeth Mylott
Metroscape
The number of immigrants living and working in the metroscape is increasing. In 2005, the foreign born population numbered 250,955, a dramatic increase from the 1990 level of 88,072. Not only are more immigrants settling here, but the proportion of the population who is foreign born is also increasing—from 5.96% in 1990 to 12% in 2005.
The Landscape: Urban Agriculture, Elizabeth Mylott
The Landscape: Urban Agriculture, Elizabeth Mylott
Metroscape
Article discusses the growth of urban agriculture in the Portland Urban Growth Boundary.
Indicators Of The Metroscape: Critical Issues, Craig Wollner
Indicators Of The Metroscape: Critical Issues, Craig Wollner
Metroscape
Every two years, the Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (IMS) conducts two surveys to identify the critical issues in the six-county region that is its service area. A scientific telephone survey of the general public is conducted by the Portland State University Survey Research Laboratory. A second mail survey of opinion leaders is done by the Institute staff asking the same questions as in the phone poll. The comparative results are published in the IMS Briefing Book.