Oregon
Will Big Box Stores Succeed In Portland?
Metro, Portland's regional government, is considering strategies to keep megastores from revived urban centers.
U.S. City Proves Living Green Makes Economic Sense
The city known as "America's environmental laboratory" is showing that environment-friendly policies make good economic sense.
18 U.S. States To Produce Biodiesel
Oregon will become one of about 18 states producing biodiesel fuel.
Rail Disasters 2005
Transit critic Rand O'Toole updates his 2004 Rail Disasters report to include impacts on transit ridership.
A Serious Challenge For Planning
Measure 37 -- Oregon's new property-rights law -- is inspiring property rights advocates nationwide.
Oregon Considers 'Vehicle Mileage Tax'
Thinking of getting a fuel-efficient hybrid car in response to rising gas prices? Think again.
Land Rights Battle Heats Up In Oregon
Several states are watching the outcome of legal proceedings in Oregon closely.
GUPPYS: Green Urban Professionals Who Are Young
In Portland, more young urban professionals are living the American dream by forgoing square footage for eco-friendly homes.
Can Reducing Parking Encourage Urban Center Villages?
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels wants to encourage the creation of "urban center villages" by reducing the number of required minimum parking spaces for new multifamily housing.
Cities Without Children
Where are the children in the nation's vibrant thriving cities?
How Much Are You Willing To Pay To Live Green?
Developers of a new urbanist community in western Wilsonville, Oregon want to ask its future residents how much they are willing to pay for using green technologies.
So Did Smart Growth Make Portland Unaffordable?
Randal O'Toole pushes back against Philip Langdon's article that questions whether Portland's growth boundary made the city less affordable.
Urban Growth Boundary Did Not Make Portland Unaffordable
New figures undercut claims that the Oregon region's housing costs have gone out of sight.
To Log Or Not To Log Forests?
Environmentalists split over whether logging is good for forests.
Oregon ' Odd Couple' Promote Biofuel
A conservative Republican radio talk-show host and a liberal environmental consultant for an unlikely partnership to promote biofuel.
Property Rights Vs. Anti-Sprawl Laws
Across the nation property rights interests are colliding with anti-sprawl laws
Adding A Notch To The Belt
Eugene, Oregon's Urban Growth Boundary might be more flexible than you think.
Oregon: A Smart Growth Slap-Down?
Measure 37’s passage means lots of lawsuits, and little else
Oregon's Property-Rights Vote Could Derail Smart Growth
Neal Peirce shows how the innocuous language in Oregon's Measure 37 conceals the potential to turn the State into an "eruption of Burger Kings and Wal-Marts."
Oregon's Vistas May Get Less Scenic
Long a model for protecting rural areas, the state faces a property-rights backlash that could ripple nationwide.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
Clanton & Associates, Inc.
Jessamine County Fiscal Court
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
Salt Lake City
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
