• Animated Map of Seattle and Vancouver, BC: A Decade of Growth

    Date Range: 1990-2001 By 2000, 62 percent of Vancouver’s residents lived in compact communities, compared to 25 percent of Seattle’s residents.
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  • This Place on Earth 2001

    A close look at why society’s most-influential indicators–from the GDP to the Dow Jones–are failing us. This Place on Earth 2002 also presents a first effort at an alternative yardstick for the Northwest, by measuring how the region is doing in critical areas such as salmon health, sprawl, income inequality, and land use.
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