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Oregon’s growth management laws protected Portland-area rural open space between 1990 and 2000 from poorly planned sprawl, especially when compared with Clark County, Washington.

Date Range: 2004-2006 Measure 37 has set the stage for poorly planned sprawl in the farms and rural areas surrounding Portland.

Measure 37 has set the stage for poorly planned sprawl in the farms and rural areas in the Hood River region.

Measure 37 has set the stage for poorly planned sprawl in the farms and rural areas in the Hood River Valley.

Measure 37 has set the stage for poorly planned sprawl in the farms and rural areas in the Willamette Valley.

One of the benefits of working in an office full of geeks is that my colleagues, rather than my spouse, bear the brunt of my obsessions over policy minutiae. A little while ago, for example, we had a rollicking debate about whether Sightline’s long-standing opposition to the Home Interest Mortgage Deduction—herein abbreviated as “HIMD”—still makes sense.  (We’re wild and crazy here, I tell you!) Here’s the rundown. On equity grounds, the...

My house gets a 77 out of 100; my office, a 92. Want to know how walkable your neighborhood is? Or the neighborhood you’re thinking of living in? Go to walkscore.com. Three Seattle uber-hackers, Jesse Kocher, Matt Lerner, and Mike Mathieu, built this addicting new website. It maps the closest grocery store, restaurant, and several other businesses you might walk to from any address in the United States or Canada....

A collection of research and solutions–including walkscore.com–for creating walkable communities and why it’s important.

There’s good news, I think, in the new Census numbers that are just out on commuting habits in the fifty largest US cities. Here’s how the two in the Northwest stack up. Portland Seattle Public transit…… 13.3 10th 17.0 8th Walk………………. 4.3 11th 6.9 6th Work at home…. 5.3 2nd 5.1 3rd Bicycle…………… 3.5 1st 2.3 3rd Carpool………….. 10.4 31st 10.3 32nd Total 36.7 41.6 [Figures show the percent of...

The grid, the strip, the cul-de-sac—all terms modern developers use in every day language. And all terms to describe the car-centric design found throughout North American cities.   In his latest issue (pdf) of Price Tags, Gordon Price focuses on Tampa, Florida. Our image of Florida as we know it is changing from a green paradise with beautiful beaches, to a landscape of strips, asphalt, and advertising.   “In Florida...