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Evaluation Of Vertical Equity In Residential Property Assessments In The Lake Oswego And West Linn Areas, James G. Strathman, Dirce Toulan

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

This report presents a statistical evaluation of vertical equity in the pattern of residential property assessments in the Lake Oswego, West Linn and nearby unincorporated areas based on an application of the Paglin-Fogarty method to a sample of recent sales. A vertically regressive pattern of inequity in assessments, which is characterized by systemmatic under-assessment of higher-valued properties and overassessment of lower-valued properties, was found. Based on the entire sample, it was estimated that a typical $75,000 property was overassessed by about $4,700, and a typical $175,000 property was underassessed by $8,800.

Portland State University's Impact On The Portland Smsa Economy, James G. Strathman

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

Portland State University's contribution to the metropolitan Portland economy is both diverse and considerable. A 1982 study estimated that the expenditures made by the University, its faculty and staff, and its full-time students generated over $150 million in gross output in the region. Given the changes that have taken place over the past five years, a re-examination of the University's economic impacts is warranted. This report examines Portland State University's contribution to metropolitan economic activity based on data from the 1985-86 academic year.

The approach taken in this report differs in several respects from the 1982 study. In addition to …

1988-01-31; Pamphlet; Mission Sunday, Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church

Pamphlets

No abstract provided.

Membership Roll; 1988-01-03 Through 1988-11-27, Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church

Church Books and Membership Rolls

No abstract provided.

Homestead Neighborhood And The Oregon Health Sciences University Background And Recommendations Report, Thomas Bizeau, Jim Crawford, Barton Delacy, Yousef Massoudifar, Tom Mcconnell, Foziah Rahman, Ezzat Rassoli, Barbara Sochacka

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Workshop Projects

The Homestead Neighborhood is located in southwest Portland. It was first studied as part of the Marquam Hill Plan in 1977. Since that time two major health providers, the Shriners and the Veterans Administration,have built new facilities on the hill. The Oregon Health Sciences University is now poised and ready for major expansion of its medical schools, hospital and research facilities. Meanwhile, area residents and property owners, have voiced concerns about increased traffic, and building density.

Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) contracted with the School of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University to draft a comprehensive neighborhood plan, …

New West, New South, New Region: The Discovery Of The Sunbelt, Carl Abbott

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

Given the speed with which we have embraced the idea and terminology of a Sunbelt, this essay attempts to explore several related issues. As an introduction, it will briefly review the process of introduction and acceptance of the term. It will then explore possible reasons for the "discovery" of the Sunbelt, its seemingly quick success, and its persistent use after it has slipped to the status of cliche in national journalism. The underlying concern is to understand why Americans took the new terminology so readily to heart by examining what it is that "Sunbelt" explains or implies that lies beyond …

Crisis Y Política Urbana: El Caso De Quito, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La nueva forma de organización territorial que adopta el proceso urbano de Quito, se origina en la coyuntura petrolera de los años setenta, cuando el Estado y las fuerzas sociales involucradas logran consolidarse, ello posibilitará al municipio emprender una política urbana concertada a través de sus instrumentos fundamentales: la generación de "capital físico", la realización de planes urbanos y la gestión económico-financiera.

La realidad del municipio desdice la situación teórico-legal que le da sustento, ya que ha sido superado por la magnitud y complejidad de problemas como la crisis urbana, la redefinición de las relaciones entre los poderes central y …

Los Movimientos De Pobladores En Los Barrios Populares De Quito (Ecuador), Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

En la década de los años sesenta con la modernización capitalista de la sociedad nacional, el eje de la acumulación tiende a trasladarse a las ciudades. De esta manera, e1 proceso de urbanización se acelera significativamente como consecuencia del paso de las formas de acumu1ación semi coloniales o primario exportadoras a las nuevas de sustento urbano industrial, teniendo como base el hecho de que la plusvalía extraída en los sectores minero y agrícola, que anteriormente fluía directamente hacia los centros metropolitanos, comienza a ser acumulada localmente a través del desarrollo, aunque incipiente, de la industria, de la banca, del comercio, …

Equateur: Jeunesse Et Vitalité De La Recherche Urbaine, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Il est relativement difficile de préciser l'origine chronologique d'un domaine de connaissance dans un pays déterminé. Ca l'est d'autant plus si l'on prend en considération le fait que la constitution théorique d'un domaine de connaissance dépasse les frontières nationales. En Equateur, la ville remonte, selon certaines hypothèses, à la conquête espagnole; toutefois c'est récemment, lorsque s'affirme le processus d'urbanisation, que commence à se développer une pensée relativement consistante sur la ville (Carrión, F., 1986). Ce courant de pensée ne donne pas encore une définition claire de la ville et de ses particularités; les historiens, les philosophes et les romanciers l`abordent …

La Investigación Urbana En América Latina. Cambios Recorridos Y Por Recorrer, Una Aproximación Desde Los Países, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

La trayectoria de la investigación urbana en América Latina tiene más de tres décadas de fructífera labor. Sin embargo. poco ha sido el tiempo destinado a reflexionar respecto de su real desarrollo. Más necesaria la reflexión, si se considera el estado actual de América Latina y el contexto general en el que se desenvuelven las ciencias sociales.

Este intento de sistematizar la investigación urbana en América Latina, que no tiene más antecedentes que los trabajos y las discusiones llevadas a cabo en el seminario “La investigación urbana en América Latina caminos recorridos y por recorrer”, se inscribe en aquella corriente …

Centros De Investigación Y Bibliotecas, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

El Centro de Investigaciones CIUDAD y el Instituto Superior de Investigaciones de la FAU -UC-, tienen el enorme agrado de presentar al público este DIRECTORIO ECUATORIANO DE CENTROS DE INVESTIGACION y BIBLIOTECAS, primer resultado del estudio "La investigación urbano-regional en el Ecuador", que, realizado por el Arq. Femando Carrión, contara con el apoyo del CONUEP y del IDRC.

La importancia del Directorio se hará evidente al recordar que las Ciencias Sociales ecuatorianas han tenido un importante desarrollo en los últimos años. Dan cuenta de ello innúmeras investigaciones realizadas, en los diversos campos que ella abarca, publicadas o inéditas. Este desarrollo …

Turbulent Transition And Organizational Change: Relating Policy Outcomes To Strategic Administrative Capacities, Herman L. Boschken

Herman L. Boschken

A competitive public economy places greater burden on agencies to cope with uncertainty and change, especially in periods of "turbulent transition." As transition provides new opportunity, we find great variance in the ability of agencies to defend, enlarge or change their public domains. Administrative adroitness seems to be related to both adequate perception concerning change and the capacity to process reliable information, plan innovative programs, and manage conflicting demands. This article looks at critical variables which show promise in explaining how public organizations enlarge their discretion in policy formulation and service delivery during transitional periods. It assesses them empirically using …

Official Population Estimates For Oregon Counties And Cities July 1, 1978-July 1, 1987, Portland State University. Population Research Center

Oregon Population Estimates and Reports

This report contains the following tables:

• Population estimates of Oregon by area, type and specific metropolitan areas: 1978-1987
• Population estimates for counties and cities: 1978-1987
• Certified population estimates for Oregon cities by population size: July 1, 1987
• Components of population change by county: 1980-1987
• Population estimates for Oregon and its counties by age and sex: July 1, 1987

A Management Study For Waterfront Park, Portland (Or.). Bureau Of Parks And Recreation

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

The Growth Of Service Industries In California 1960-1980, Ayalew Adamu, James G. Strathman

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

This paper investigates structural changes in the service economy in California between 1960 and 1980. The service sector is disaggregated into four segments - distributive, business, personal and social - and a model is developed and estimated relating the relative growth of employment in services to changes in economic, demographic and urbanization factors. Substitution and complementary linkages among the service segments, and between these segments and manufacturing are also explored. Our results are consistent with the Fisher-Clark hypothesis, and the general importance of demographic and urbanization factors is also established. Variations in the influence of the determinants of structural change …

Ua1b3/6 1988 Meeting Minutes & Reports, Wku Parking & Traffic Committee

WKU Archives Records

Meeting minutes and reports of the WKU Parking & Traffic Committee for 1988.

Adolescent Shoplifting And Situational Stimuli, James A. Chambers

Dissertations and Theses

Adolescent shoplifting has provoked limited and somewhat controversial perspectives within the sociological and psychological literature. These controversies center around the empirical variables used for analysis. A companion argument focuses on the subjective and objective measurement of these variables. This research explicated variables from the sociological literature to test their relationship, using multiple linear regression, to adolescent shoplifting behavior. These variables and situational stimuli were operationalized in a simultaneous model to demonstrate a proximate occurrence of the attitude-situation-behavior reciprocal. This reciprocal is a learning theory which suggests that direct and vicarious experiences accompanied by rewards and punishment, in one's environment, lead …

City Club Of Portland Annual Report 1988-89, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Investigación Urbana En El Área Andina, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

"La investigación urbana en el Área Andina" se realiza gracias al apoyo del Interurba-Tiers Monde, del Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos (IFEA), y se inscribe dentro de! marco institucional del Centro de investigaciones CIUDAD. Una versión en francés y adaptada a un público francohablante, se encuentra en curso de ser publicada a cargo del Interurba-Tiers Monde, y saldrá en los próximos meses dentro de la colección "Prácticas Urbanas" bajo el título: La investigación urbana en los países andinos. Un estado de la cuestión.

Para la ejecución de este estudio se contó con los trabajos de Abdardo Sanchez-León de DESCO-PERU, Godofrcdo …