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Place And Economic Development

January 20, 2012 by Jim Russell
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Is "cool" an economic development strategy? A few of my blog posts are syndicated at Sustainable Cities Collective. (ed. note: here!) Sometimes the title gets tweaked in a way that highlights a controversy. Such is the value of a good editor. That was the case with my most recent work about Pittsburgh versus Portland. The larger issue of... [read more]

Is 'cool' an economic development strategy?: Pittsburgh Versus Portland

January 17, 2012 by Jim Russell
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Move to Portland and be somewhere. Move to Indianapolis and do something. Portland is a wonderful example of great placemaking. Placemaking to what end? Portland is attractive. Portland is winning the war for talent. Portland is San Francisco without jobs. [read more]

What is the Nature In Your City?

December 30, 2011 by Jason King
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Across the world, cities are bringing back nature to helpaddress urban challenges. We are healthier when we are closer tonature. We have a greater respect for the environment that sustainsus. We are more adaptable to change when we let nature do its work. [read more]

System Dynamics: Planning for Smarter Cities

August 29, 2011 by Engaging Cities
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Photo credit: William Warby

Smart cities don’t happen by accident. To help planners and policy makers better understand and manage the dynamic behavior of cities, IBM Global Business Services is introducing new analytics software and services based on their “smarter cities” strategy. System Dynamics for Smarter Cities is an interactive model that allows leaders to observe how the core systems of a city -- such as the economy, housing, education, public safety, transportation, health care, government services and utilities -- work together and affect one another. [read more]

Framing the Question of Place in Portland

May 15, 2011 by Chuck Wolfe
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Visits to other cities can easily create “grass is always greener responses” which are hardly complete analyses of a place and its problems. Yet these human, spontaneous gestalts are worth noting, because they say something about the immediate look and feel of location, and can constitute authentic perceptions of the best of urbanism.... [read more]

New Report: Transit-Oriented Development Strategic Plan for Portland

April 20, 2011 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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The Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD), along with Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates, released a new strategic plan to advance transit-oriented development (TOD) in Portland, especially in areas outside of central Portland that have not had the same momentum for mixed-use and higher-density development. [read more]

San Francisco Is Dying: Kidless Cool Cities

April 15, 2011 by Jim Russell
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Welcome to San Francisco, shrinking city. By now an old story, both the urban core and the metropolitan area are domestic migration losers. Less known is the problem of natural decline:Families that remain in The City are bucking the trend that has plagued San Francisco for years as the number of children — defined as people up to 17... [read more]

More Biking Lessons from Portland

March 1, 2011 by Next American City
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Bikers take part in a Sunday Parkways Celebration.Promoting Biking to Those beyond the Young and the Fearless Portland’s 2030 Bicycle Master Plan, unanimously adopted by the city council earlier this year, envisions Portland as “a world class bicycling city” by tripling the overall mileage of bikeways in the hopes of encouraging even... [read more]

Portland: Making Biking Mainstream (Part I)

February 28, 2011 by Next American City
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It’s become a cliché that Portland is America’s most livable city, a hotbed of innovation when it comes to green policies, public spaces, pedestrian amenities, transit, public spaces, and, of course, bicycles. In fact some people are growing weary (and the rest of us envious) of hearing about how great things are in Oregon’s largest city... [read more]

White in the White City

February 15, 2011 by Linda Baker
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How is a white liberal to assuage her guilt when she lives in Portland—one of the whitest cities in the country? And how is a white liberal to raise white children in a white city? [read more]

Personal income stats: older cities in the East & Midwest are rebounding

January 31, 2011 by Kaid Benfield
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  Throw out those old notions that the sprawling regions of the Sun Belt are where the economic action is, while traditional regions in the Northeast and West have had their day and will only lose traction from here on.  The facts show that eastern and midwestern metro areas with older, more traditional central cities claimed... [read more]

Libraries as green community and neighborhood anchors

January 31, 2011 by Kaid Benfield
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Sometime a very long time ago, when I was still new at this smart growth stuff, I remember hearing a planner from Portland recount two principles that had guided one of that city’s famous land use plans: every neighborhood should have a view of Mount Hood, the famous peak not far from the city; and every neighborhood should have a... [read more]