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Finding The Middle: Overcoming Challenges To Building Missing Middle Housing, Ryan Winterberg-Lipp
Finding The Middle: Overcoming Challenges To Building Missing Middle Housing, Ryan Winterberg-Lipp
Metroscape
In the Portland metro area and across the state, the demographics of cities are changing. Urban populations and housing prices are rising, while household sizes are declining with an aging baby boomer generation and younger households both delaying marriage and children and having fewer children. With these changing dynamics, many Portland metro communities are looking to missing middle housing types to “provide for the housing needs of citizens of the state” as called for in the Oregon Statewide Planning Goals and Guidelines. With increasing interest in missing middle housing as a way to provide more housing choices for area households …
The Landscape: Cully Neighborhood, Eavan Moore
The Landscape: Cully Neighborhood, Eavan Moore
Metroscape
This installment of The Landscape focuses on Portland's Cully neighborhood, briefly reviewing its history, demographic trends, and current planning efforts.
The Landscape: Activating The Waterfront, Jeremy Young
The Landscape: Activating The Waterfront, Jeremy Young
Metroscape
This article discusses ideas from a 6-month project (Downtown Portland Waterfront Activation Strategy) completed by a team of students in PSU’s Masters in Urban and Regional Planning program.
Periodic Atlas Of The Metroscape: A Geography Of Opportunity: Maps From The Regional Equity Atlas, Kenneth Radin, Meg Merrick, Vivek Shandas
Periodic Atlas Of The Metroscape: A Geography Of Opportunity: Maps From The Regional Equity Atlas, Kenneth Radin, Meg Merrick, Vivek Shandas
Metroscape
Atlas of poverty levels, distribution of wealth, and demographics in the Portland Metro Area.
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.
Periodic Atlas Of The Metroscape: The Geography Of Water, Vivek Shandas, Alton Straub, Yongxia Kou
Periodic Atlas Of The Metroscape: The Geography Of Water, Vivek Shandas, Alton Straub, Yongxia Kou
Metroscape
Atlas of water districts and water use in the Portland Metro Area.
Indicators Of The Metroscape: Columbia Log Jam, Brian Vanneman
Indicators Of The Metroscape: Columbia Log Jam, Brian Vanneman
Metroscape
Article discusses the transportation of lumber, wood, and paper products on the I-5 Freeway and over the Columbia River Bridge.
Periodic Atlas Of The Metroscape: Pattern Recognition: Migration And The Identity Of The Region, Alton Straub
Periodic Atlas Of The Metroscape: Pattern Recognition: Migration And The Identity Of The Region, Alton Straub
Metroscape
A periodic atlas which investigates migration in Oregon and the Metroscape using recently available data.
Periodic Atlas Of The Metroscape: Sheltering The Metroscape: Assessing The Urban Forest, Joseph Poracsky, Michael Lackner
Periodic Atlas Of The Metroscape: Sheltering The Metroscape: Assessing The Urban Forest, Joseph Poracsky, Michael Lackner
Metroscape
An article (with maps) which discusses the importance of having a healthy urban forest ecosystem in the Portland Metro Area.