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Tag Archives: urban fabric
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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Clip-on Architecture: Reforesting Cities
Much of the literature related to the role of the built environment in climate change has focused on new technologies and new ideas which might be implemented in new buildings. Tabula rasa eco-cities trumpeting their green credentials and high levels of environmental sustainability are being planned in the U.S., China, and Abu Dhabi, among other places, and green is the word of the day. Despite these ambitious plans for new cities, one might ask, with all the urban fabric which currently exists, why build at all, and most especially on such a massive scale?
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Posted in Climate Change, Culture, Livability, Placemaking, Sustainability, What if?
Tagged Amazon, built environment, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, Climate Change, deforestation, eco-cities, ecoclicknetwork, energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, fossil fuels, global population, global warming, green, green technology, interventions, New York City, rainforest, reforestation, retrofit, roofspace, urban fabric, Urban Omnibus, Vanessa Keith
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Seattle, Vancouver, and Portland by Rail, Bus, Streetcar, and Foot: Part One
I grew up during the grunge era, with Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder for role models, and the notion that a city could simultaneously spawn and embrace musical icons of social and political dissidence and the bourgeois haughtiness of, say, Frasier Crane, always fascinated me. Seattle was the only major coastal city in the U.S. I hadn’t yet spent time in; I was ready to fall in love. Continue reading
Posted in Dispatches, Josh Grigsby, Rants, Response Pieces, transit, Transportation, What if?
Tagged ballard, beantown, belltown, boeing, bookstore, boston, bus, capitol hill, central city, coffee, counterculture, dot com boom, downtown, drugs, eddie vedder, elevated freeway, frasier crane, fremont, instability, international district, king street station, kurt cobain, light rail, literate, local music, microsoft, pacific northwest, perception, pike place, pioneer square, portland, progressive, public transportation, queen anne, seattle, seattle art museum, sinking ship, sprawl, streetcar, tech, train, transit, transit tunnel, university district, urban decay, urban fabric, vancouver, walkable, walking, wallingford, waterfront, youth culture
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