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Portland: An 'Un-American' City?

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Steven Karolyi
26 July 2001 - 2:00pm

What happens when an European streetcar system is installed in an American city? Portland, OR, is making a dramatic effort to apply European planning ideas in an American context.

"Most American cities still suffer from the mistakes of the past 50 years, where freeway construction destroyed communities and suburbanization vandalized the countryside with shoddy malls and subdivisions, bleeding the cities of life...By replacing the streetcar tracks that were ripped from the streets 51 years ago, Portland, like postwar Europe, is finally rebuilding itself."

Full Story: Portland-on- Rhine
Source: Willamette Week, July 25, 2001
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