Portland's High-Density Successes
29 April 2001 - 9:00am
Higher-density, mixed-use developments are gaining footholds among public transit routes in Portland.
"Portland corralled sprawl better than most similar-sized urban areas during the 1990s, packing in 8 percent more people per square mile. But heavy infill was concentrated to such a small number of areas that 57 percent of the city's residents in 1990 saw no change in density in their neighborhoods."
Source:
The Oregonian, April 25, 2001
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And many of us – the majority, in fact – find ourselves living in a drive-only landscape, where we must burn gas even to reach a transit stop, if one exists.
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