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Portland

On Nov 8th Morn…I Experienced Everything Great about America

December 21, 2016 By Michele Reeves

NE STEM/STEAM

My election day began with a meeting of a group I was recently asked to join, the NE STEM/STEAM coalition in Portland, Oregon. The group’s mission (I paraphrase) is to help students from communities of color gain access to careers and education in science, technology, and the arts.Continue Reading On Nov 8th Morn…I Experienced Everything Great about America

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature Posts, Portland Tagged With: Airway Science for Kids, NE STEM/STEAM, New Market Tax Credit, Pixel Arts Education, Portland, Rebuilding Center

Are cities building too many parks and plazas in their downtowns? The experts weigh in . . .

October 26, 2015 By Bill Adams

San Diego Civic Center Plaza
San Diego Civic Center Plaza – hindered by few primary uses and inactive peripheries

Jane Jacobs wasn’t bullish on urban parks.  She preferred active sidewalks. In her classic urban planning (sociology?) book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she noted that parks created “borders,” that often result in blighting or “slumming” along their edges.  She attributed this circumstance to a lack of diversity of uses, a lack of density, and many other factors, and how they interrelated (her “organized complexity”).  Continue Reading Are cities building too many parks and plazas in their downtowns? The experts weigh in . . .

Filed Under: Feature Posts, landscape architecture, Planning, San Diego Tagged With: Death and Life of Great American Cities, Fault Line Park, Jane Jacobs, New York, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, San Diego, The High Line

The Commons Concept – A Strategy to Restore Balance to the Portland Region

May 21, 2015 By Rick Potestio

EcoHood School Park renderingPortland is a planner’s mecca. Or is it? Visitors to the city are treated to postcard worthy scenes of light rail trains, streetcars and even an aerial tram gliding past renovated brick warehouses and gleaming glass towers. But at the regional level the picture is not so perfect.Continue Reading The Commons Concept – A Strategy to Restore Balance to the Portland Region

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Environment, Feature Posts, Planning, Portland Tagged With: density, new urbanism, Portland, smart growth, sprawl, urban growth boundary

One-Way Streets, A Coffee Shop, and a Reunion

March 9, 2015 By Michele Reeves

One way street in Astoria OregonWorking away in a coffee shop one day (I know, how very Portland of me), I couldn’t help but overhear the phone conversation of the young woman sitting to my left. (Why are cell conversations in coffee shops always so loud? #unavoidableeavesdropping)

Anyway, she was chatting with someone about how long it had been since they had seen each other, and that she couldn’t wait until they were reunited at the coffee shop.

(I know, you may be wondering, “What the heck does this have to do with one-way streets?” Be patient, it’s coming!)Continue Reading One-Way Streets, A Coffee Shop, and a Reunion

Filed Under: Feature Posts, Portland Tagged With: Astoria, Hippodamus, one way streets, Portland, street grid, two way streets

How City Park Design Contributes to Resident Health

July 16, 2014 By Jeff Caldwell

Minneapolis Rudy Balasko via Shutterstock
Minneapolis
Rudy Balasko via Shutterstock

City parks are more than pretty outdoor spaces — research shows they can also be critical to improving a community’s health. In fact, from the earliest days of their implementation, parks have been tools for boosting air quality, encouraging safe physical recreation, reducing disease and discouraging crime, according to the George Wright Forum.Continue Reading How City Park Design Contributes to Resident Health

Filed Under: Chicago, Design, Environment, Feature Posts, Travel Tagged With: Chicago, congress for new urbanism, density, design, minneapolis, Parks, philadelphia, Portland, richmond, transit, urbanism

Exploring and Observing: Fun City Tours

October 15, 2013 By Clement Lau

Directions sign at Pioneer Courthouse Square in PortlandDo you like to travel and explore different cities?  I definitely do!  While I travel mostly for pleasure (rather than business), the planner in me cannot help but observe, study, and evaluate the places I visit. Continue Reading Exploring and Observing: Fun City Tours

Filed Under: Design, Feature Posts, Los Angeles, Planning, Review, Transportation, Travel Tagged With: architectural tour, Architecture, Chicago, city tours, Portland, Portland Walking Tours, Ride the Ducks, San Diego, Seadog, SEAL Tour, Seattle

Local Choice Produce Market Now Open in Pearl District

January 25, 2013 By Jennifer Wright

Image via www.localchoicemarket.com/The Local Choice Produce Market is now open in the Pearl District, at the SE corner of NW 9th & Everett. A true labor of love – the owners, Don & Georganne Sader, live in the neighborhood only a few blocks away.Continue Reading Local Choice Produce Market Now Open in Pearl District

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Downtown, Ed Lee, farm to table, Pearl District, Portland, redevelopment, urban farming

Lemon Hotel to infuse new life in the North Park Blocks

August 27, 2012 By Jennifer Wright

Lemon HotelAt the edge of the Pearl District, a mixed-use development at the corner of NW Everett Street and Park Avenue is poised to bring new energy into the North Park Blocks. Continue Reading Lemon Hotel to infuse new life in the North Park Blocks

Filed Under: News, Portland, Projects, Revitalization Tagged With: Downtown, hotel, Motel, Pearl District, PNCA, Portland

Portland Unveils New Tax Amnesty Program for Businesses

May 7, 2012 By Melanie Johnson

Portland Oregon, from the road leading to Portland VA Medical Center - Vancouver Campus in Washington State, photo by Cliff1066, Flickr Creative CommonsPortland is offering a new tax amnesty program designed to help businesses delinquent in paying what they owe catch up.Continue Reading Portland Unveils New Tax Amnesty Program for Businesses

Filed Under: News, Portland, Revitalization Tagged With: Business Tax, Portland

Hallelujah!

April 26, 2012 By Lisa Stidd Silver

A few months later…as promised (not).  My usual repertoire, which has caused a struggle I have found writing within my profession, is that I write from my heart about things which inspire me.  Not that my profession does not inspire me…it does, it just hasn’t been my mode of written expression .   It was my desire and intention to write a weekly or biweekly dialogue about experiencing architecture in Portland – and beyond – from an experiential place.  How does it feel?  How does it move me…or not.  And then the ‘or not’ part started to bother me.  Would I offend people or even worse…hurt them.   Oh the spiritual new age bugaboo!! Continue Reading Hallelujah!

Filed Under: News, Portland Tagged With: community, Portland, sense of place, Urban Design, urban planning, urbanism, urbanist

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