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Greater Portland Population Growth and Sprawl

Portland, Oregon was a star at curbing rural sprawl in the 1990s.

See all three maps from The Portland Exception.

Date range: 1990-2000

Caption: Person for person in the last decade, new development in metropolitan Portland consumed less than half as much land as the average city in a 15-city study by Sightline Institute.

Publication date: 2004 | Originally published in: The Portland Exception | Topic(s): Sprawl & Transportation | Graphic type: Animated map

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