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"Economic Development" Is Not "Community" Development: Lessons For A Mayor, Eugene "Gus" Newport

Trotter Review

Economic development is one of the most important elements of an effective community development plan. Economic development can mean jobs for the community, as well as the development of new businesses and the enhancement of a city's tax base, which provides the funds to operate the government. I had campaigned on the need for responsible alternative economic development. But, one of the first things I learned is that community development often gets misinterpreted as economic development. That is an unfortunate mistake, since the term community development has a much broader meaning, both conceptually and practically. Community development means development of …

Hillsdale: Connecting People And Places, Warren Baker, Preston Beck, Inhwan Chang, Nanci Egan, Joel Freedman, Kyle Hauger, Barry Manning, Ruth Selid, Susan Van Staveren

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Workshop Projects

This document contains information developed to enhance the efforts of the Hillsdale Vision Group in making Hillsdale a more accessible and pedestrian-friendly community. There are three primary focus areas in the document.

• A Pedestrian and Bicycle Accessibility Improvement Study. The purpose of this study is to identify potential pedestrian and bicycle routes to the Hillsdale commercial core. It also suggests methods to implement pedestrian and bicycle accessibility, connectivity, and continuity to the surrounding area.

• A Street Reclassification Report. This report describes the process for street re-classification in the City of Portland and considers the issues which may arise in this …

Portland Public Schools Waste Stream Analysis, Peter Dubois, Kelly Shafer Hossaini, Matt Zybas

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

The purpose of this study is twofold. The first part of the study is an analysis of the waste stream from a sample of seven Portland Public Schools. The second part of the study provides recommendations· for waste reduction, recycling opportunities and potential cost savings for the district. In order to receive the greatest benefits from waste reduction, it will be important to tie in recycling education with facilities management.

Settlement Patterns In The Portland Region: A Historical Overview, Carl Abbott

Portland Regional Planning History

Cities exist because they serve two basic functions--to generate economic value and to sustain social and cultural values. In the most fundamental sense, the interaction of these two urban roles determines the growth of metropolitan areas and patterns of land use and settlement within those urban areas.

Within this framework of metropolitan functions, five factors have strongly affected American urban settlement patterns. The first section of this report briefly introduces these broad forces. The central section traces in detail the ways in which the factors have shaped settlement and land use in the Portland area over the last 150 years. …

Creating Community Through Urban Gardens, Jay Gratchner, Susan Hartnett, Susan Kroll, Laurie Nicholson

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Workshop Projects

"Creating Community Through Urban Gardening" represents the commitment of four individuals to assist the Oregon Food Bank (OFB) in its efforts to meet the food needs of the people of Oregon. The project was specifically designed to assist OFB in achieving its strategic goals which seek to "triple the amount of quality food acquired and made available to disadvantaged people" and to "impact the conditions underlying hunger and to promote the empowerment of disadvantaged people to achieve economic independence." The work of the project explored strategies for an urban gardening program that could be implemented by OFB. This report is …

Private Profit Versus Public Service: Competing Demands In Urban Transportation History And Policy, Portland, Oregon, 1872-1970, Martha J. Bianco

Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation is a case study of the history of urban transportation policy in Portland, Oregon, between 1872 and 1970. The emphasis is on mass transit policy formulated and implemented by the private and public sectors as response to crises within both the local transit industry and the urban political economy. These crises are placed in the context of the continuing conflict between the industry's right to profit and its obligation to meet the competing demands of its constituencies: ridership's demands for low fares and comprehensive service; labor's demands for competitive wages; downtown businesses' demands for peak-hour service; and the …

Letter From Ernie To Neil, Ernest Bonner

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.

'Environment' As A Social Concern: Democratising Public Arenas In Singapore?, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This paper explores the question of who defines the agenda of environmental concerns in Singapore. It argues that the state plays an inordinately large role in defining the agenda and implementing the solutions. Few other competing environmental agendas have been set in alternative public arenas. While this has worked generally well in Singapore, there are larger roles for environmental groups, businesses and industries, and other bodies to play. It is in the enlarged roles of these bodies that the hope for a greater democratization of public arenas in Singapore lies.

Memo To Ernis And Carly Houk From Ernie Bonner, Ernest Bonner

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.

Columbia South Shore Natural Resource Protection Plan Mitigation - Guidelines And Actions, Portland (Or.). Bureau Of Planning

Portland City Archives

Ordinance No. 167127 passed by Council November 17, 1993.

Determining The Property Value Impact Of Landfills, Okwuchukwu Gerald Uba

Dissertations and Theses

The decline in property value can be due to owner's act or exogenous act from the operation of landfills. Landfill neighbors, especially home owners, perceive landfill operation to pose environmental safety problem such as ground water contamination and methane gas leakage that could affect home value.

Owners of landfills, especially those landfills that accept only dry waste (limited purpose landfill), claim that since their facilities meet the requirements of environmental regulations and the type of waste they accept could not possibly produce methane gas and leachate there is no property value impact of their facilities.

Several studies have shown that …

City Club Of Portland Report On Ballot Measure 1: The Sales Tax Initiative, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

City Club Of Portland Report On Ballot Measure 26-1: County Charter Change Concerning Jurisdiction Over County Roads Within Cities, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Collected Working Papers, Phase 2, Portland Police Bureau/National Institute Of Justice Community Policing Assessment Project, Brian Stipak, Annette I. Jolin, Maria Clavadetscher, Susan Immer, James Marshall

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

Portland State University is one of three agencies, along with the Portland Police Bureau and the University of Oregon, working on a project funded by a grant from the National Institute of Justice, United States Department of Justice. The purpose of the grant is to develop and implement methods of measuring the performance of community policing. As the recipient of the grant, the Police Bureau has contracted with Portland State University, and also with the University of Oregon, to do some of the work for the grant. This PSU report of collected working papers was produced wider the contract between …

Urban Constraints, Political Imperatives: Environmental 'Design' In Singapore, Victor R. Savage, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

What lies at the heart of the continuing efforts at social education and engineering? We argue that they stem from a political elite which recognises the constraints facing Singapore and the need to deal with them at national level. Specifically, the government in Singapore has recognised the spatial constraints of an island-state and the dangers of a burgeoning population, particularly in relation to the need to sustain a viable urban ecosystem. They have therefore been conscientious in planning and population control. They have also stressed the importance of remaining economically viable in order to survive and an entire survival and …

Boise Neighborhood Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Eliot Neighborhood Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Irvington Neighborhood Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Piedmont Neighborhood Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Recommended Piedmont Neighborhood Plan, Portland (Or.). City Planning Commission

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Humboldt Neighborhood Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

King Neighborhood Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Kenton Neighborhood Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Concordia Neighborhood Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Sabin Neighborhood Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Fort Collins And The Cache La Poudre River: An Integrated Greenway Vision, Kari V. Henderson

Water Organizations in a Changing West (Summer Conference, June 14-16)

16 pages.

Contains references.

Strategies For Acquiring New Urban Water Supplies, Guy R. Martin

Water Organizations in a Changing West (Summer Conference, June 14-16)

9 pages.

Contains references.

Innovative Approaches To Urban Water Conservation, Tom Griswold

Water Organizations in a Changing West (Summer Conference, June 14-16)

10 pages.

City Club Of Portland Report On Ballot Measure 1: Allows Voter Approval Of Urban Renewal Bond Repayment Outside Limit, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Region 2040: Final Report, Phase 1, Eco Northwest, Ltd.

Metro Collection

No abstract provided.