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Category Archives: Portland: City or Scene?
Analysis: Scrutinizing Portland’s Arts Economy
Portland may live up to its marketed image as an artisan paradise with funky jobs and a cheap quality of life for post-collegiates who embrace the stereotype of living La Boheme. But it has much more ground to travel for those who aspire to a mature, sustaining way of life.
“There are plenty of hand-to-mouth jobs in Portland for 25 year-old creative types,” says Johnson, who has two degrees from Stanford University. “But what if you want to have children and own a house?” Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Livability, Neighbors, Placemaking, Portland: City or Scene?, Uncategorized
Tagged artisans, arts professionals, cheap quality of life, City Hall, creative class, creative types, Daniel Pink, DeAnn Walker, Joe Cortright, La Boheme, Leonardo da Vinci, Linda K. Johnson, OregonLive, Portland Oregon, Portland's Arts Economy, recession, Richard Florida, Stephen Hayes
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Portland Creatives Find New Ways to Work Together
Portland, Oregon—the misty evergreen Shangri-La for the young, the creative, and the progressive—has an interesting problem. Its miles of bike lanes, its rock-bottom rents, its deep vats of craft brews are all far too good. Yes, Portland has actually made itself too attractive. According to one study that compared May of 2009 with May of 2008, Oregon’s unemployment has grown faster than any other state in the country, 3 percent. For large metropolitan areas in the country, Portland has one of the highest unemployment rates, which topped out at about 11.8 percent—even higher than Detroit. To blame, some economists believe, are the large numbers of designers and artists who have been moving there without jobs, dubbed the dubious “young creatives.”
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Posted in Culture, Livability, Placemaking, Portland: City or Scene?, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Tagged Alissa Walker, Austin, bike lanes, Charlotte, craft beers, creative class, cultural opportunities, diversity, DIY, Good.is, handmade bikes, large metropolitan areas, local community, micro-roasters, neighborhoods, Pearl District, Portland creatives, Portland Oregon, progressive, seattle, Shangri-la, Steve McCallion, unemployment, young creatives, youth magnet cities, Ziba Design
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Portland: A Challenging Chart
Portland is supposed to be one of America’s great transit success stories. Is it still? Do we know what it’s achieving? Do we know how to measure it?
A couple of months ago Portland reader Adrian Lawson pointed me to an Oregon Catalyst article ridiculing the Portland Metro goal of tripling non-auto mode share by 2035. The author, John Charles, Jr., is the CEO of the Cascade Policy Institute, a conservative Oregon think tank that opposes Oregon’s land use planning system and generally favors roads over transit, so this is not a surprising view. Continue reading
Posted in Auto Independence, Culture, Livability, Placemaking, Portland: City or Scene?, transit, Transportation, walkable
Tagged Adrian Lawson, Beaverton, bikes, Cascade Policy Institute, Hillsboro, Human Transit, infill, Jarrett Walker, John Charles Jr, journey to work mode share, land use planning, Oregon, Oregon Catalyst, Pearl District, portland, Portland Metro, Portland Silicon Forest, Portland Streetcar, Portland transit, real estate boom, RiverPlace, roads v. transit, South Waterfront Portland, transit success, urban fabric, Vancouver Washington
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Portland: Overrated?
Is Portland overrated? I’ve tried pitching the following words to the New York Times and the LA Times as an op-ed column, over the last few weeks. Needless to say, neither of them wanted it—they’re too busy running “Ra Ra Portland” pieces. And why not, when it sells advertising?
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Posted in Culture, Livability, Portland: City or Scene?, Rants, Uncategorized
Tagged Bohemian street life, California, creative class, green rooftops, hipsters, Matt White, media-induced smugness, Modest Mouse, native Portlanders, New York, Oregon, overrated, passive aggression, portland, Portland Mercury, Sam Adams, Sustainability, tech boom, The Shins, xenophobia
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