Category | Urban Planning

Portland Streetcar Eastside Loop Construction Begins

Posted on 06 February 2010

Video by punkrawker from Portland transit blog punkrawker blogs on.

Planologie Considers Portland

Posted on 29 January 2010

The author of Planologie, a blog dedicated to considering the ways we live, build, move, and think, recently spent a few days in Portland, after also visiting Vancouver and Seattle.

A Rose Quarter Roller Coaster?

Posted on 06 January 2010

One proposal for the Rose Quarter is to transform it into Memorial Park, with some boring parts and one very interesting part.

A four minute (video) meditation on downtown Portland

Posted on 17 November 2009

A video by a recent visitor to our fine town.

Rosebuds* 10/20/2009

Posted on 20 October 2009

A different take on Portland’s Platting, Yes, Portland is very white, and Portland blogger Dieselboi is blog-famous!

Great Places in America: Ladd’s Addition

Posted on 08 October 2009

Portland’s Ladd’s Addition neighborhood was named one of the 2009 Great Places in America by the American Planning Association (APA).
According to the APA, the Great Places program celebrates places of exemplary character, quality, and planning. Places are selected annually and represent the gold standard in terms of having a true sense of place, cultural and [...]

Pioneer Courthouse Square’s fifty magic meters

Posted on 28 July 2009

What do the Village Square in Whistler, the Piazza Navona in Rome, Marienplatz in Munich, and Paris’ Place de L’Hotel de Ville and Palais Royal all have in common? They are all successful urban plazas. Gordon Price, a Canadian transportation and urban planning expert, notes in his blog that they all also share [...]

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