Portland Demonstrates The Importance Of Urban Planning

For more than a decade, Portland has proudly extolled its virtues as one of the most thoughtfully planned cities in the country...Portland has long been the darling of so-called "New Urbanist" advocates of mass transit, denser neighborhoods and strict design controls to promote walking. But it now may find itself at the forefront of a movement by public health advocates to consider -- or actually reconsider -- urban planning...