Oregon
How Much Are You Willing To Pay To Live Green?
Developers of a new urbanist community in western Wilsonville, Oregon want to ask its future residents how much they are willing to pay for using green technologies.
So Did Smart Growth Make Portland Unaffordable?
Randal O'Toole pushes back against Philip Langdon's article that questions whether Portland's growth boundary made the city less affordable.
Urban Growth Boundary Did Not Make Portland Unaffordable
New figures undercut claims that the Oregon region's housing costs have gone out of sight.
To Log Or Not To Log Forests?
Environmentalists split over whether logging is good for forests.
Oregon ' Odd Couple' Promote Biofuel
A conservative Republican radio talk-show host and a liberal environmental consultant for an unlikely partnership to promote biofuel.
Property Rights Vs. Anti-Sprawl Laws
Across the nation property rights interests are colliding with anti-sprawl laws
Adding A Notch To The Belt
Eugene, Oregon's Urban Growth Boundary might be more flexible than you think.
Oregon: A Smart Growth Slap-Down?
Measure 37’s passage means lots of lawsuits, and little else
Oregon's Property-Rights Vote Could Derail Smart Growth
Neal Peirce shows how the innocuous language in Oregon's Measure 37 conceals the potential to turn the State into an "eruption of Burger Kings and Wal-Marts."
Oregon's Vistas May Get Less Scenic
Long a model for protecting rural areas, the state faces a property-rights backlash that could ripple nationwide.
Oregon Cities Prepare For Planning Backlash
Oregon cities gear up to fight Measure 37, a voter-passed property rights law. Is this a response to overly restrictive planning, or property rights run amok?
Oregon's Landmark Land Use Measure
A dramatic turnaround for property rights in the state with one of the most restrictive land use rules in the nation.
Oregon's Land Use Planning Revolt
Oregon voters lash out against land-use planning.
A New Era For Zoning And Preservation
A ballot measure requiring governments to pay landowners for value lost due to development restrictions passes in Oregon.
Comparing Smart Growth In 15 Cities
A new analysis of growth compares Portland's attempt to curb sprawl and protect rural land with 14 other US cities, including Seattle and Boise.
'Smart Commute' Incentives
An innovative public-private effort in Portland incentivizes residents to purchase homes near public transportation.
Portland's Skinny House Competition
An innovative design competition sponsored by the City of Portland attempts to provide design ideas to infill developers.
Letting Pedestrians Cross The Street
Oregonians don't treat pedestrians as traffic obstacles.
The Greenest House On The Block
A green housing project in Oregon actually generates more power than it needs.
Exploring Portland's Urban Growth Boundary
Author David Oates walks along the Portland metro area's urban growth boundary.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
