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The Politics Of Land-Use Law In Oregon: Senate Bill 100, Twenty Years After, Carl Abbott
The Politics Of Land-Use Law In Oregon: Senate Bill 100, Twenty Years After, Carl Abbott
Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations
Describes the genesis of Oregon Senate Bill 100, 1973, and includes excerpts from a roundtable discussion by four men who were instrumental in creating the bill. The four men are Hector Macpherson, Ted Hallock, Stafford Hansel, and Henry Richmond. The bill called for an institutional structure for statewide land-use planning.
The Evolution Of Federal Transit Policy, Sy Adler
The Evolution Of Federal Transit Policy, Sy Adler
Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations
Examines how the US federal government came to subsidize a greater share of transit industry costs than most other national governments. Since World War II, downtown activists sought to boost their transit systems in the face of increasingly intense competition from suburban business centers; the transit systems of Los Angeles and San Francisco in particular were shaped by this competition. Downtown activists tried, with varying success, to influence the newly formed regional transit agencies and the Federal Department of Transportation, created in 1964. The federal government's role in urban transit has been characterized by a tension between economic rationalization and …
The Urban West And The Twenty-First Century, Carl Abbott
The Urban West And The Twenty-First Century, Carl Abbott
Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations
In 1964 Oregon novelist Ken Kesey published Sometimes a Great Notion, the impassioned story of a fiercely (even pathologically) independent family of loggers on the southern Oregon coast. The novel is much admired by Oregonians, who read it as a tribute to the vanishing American pioneer. The urban West appears only by implication in the form of a fumbling labor organizer who longs to return to the civilized cities of California. My argument is that what we see is what we're going to get. That is, the coming decades are likely to see the American West continue to work through …
Five Downtown Strategies: Policy Discourse And Downtown Planning Since 1945, Carl Abbott
Five Downtown Strategies: Policy Discourse And Downtown Planning Since 1945, Carl Abbott
Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations
Downtown planning since World War II has been based on constantly changing assumptions about the nature of central business districts. From 1945 to 1955, downtown was seen as the city's unitary center, and the focus of planning activity was the improvement of downtown access and circulation. Between 1955 and 1965, downtown became a declining activity center and failing real estate market; planners and business groups fought decline and competition from the suburbs through programs like urban renewal. In the decade after 1965, a reaction against urban renewal led to a new conception of downtown as a set of distinct functional …