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Big Look and Transportation: Part 2
Taking a “Big Look” at Transportation and Land Use Planning in Oregon – Call To Action Previously, I explained that there are two transportation and land use programs at work in Oregon: the regulatory program many worry about and the follow-the-money program that matters more. As Alex Marshall puts it in How Cities Work: Suburbs,…
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Big Look and Transportation: Part 1
Taking a “Big Look” at Transportation and Land Use in Oregon – Introduction Senate Bill 82 established the Oregon Task Force on Land Use Planning (OTFLUP), commonly known as the “Big Look” Task Force, to study Oregon’s land use planning program and make recommendations to the 2007 and 2009 legislatures. But which land use program…
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Transit Oriented Development Webcast TODAY
Sorry for the late notice. This first session in this webcast series, titled “TOD: Connecting Neighbors to Neighborhoods and Communities to Regions”, is today at 11am Pacific. Get the details at: http://www.lisc.org/content/calendar/detail/1233?AddInterest=1025
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Designing Communities with the Pedestrian in Mind
Rob Zako passes this along. Perhaps we can organize a carpool from Portland to Salem. Please join us on Tuesday, November 15, for a presentation on transportation-efficient development by Tom Hylton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Save Our Land, Save Our Towns. Hylton will discuss land use and urban design techniques for reducing…
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Peak Oil? Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita highlighted the vulnerability of the world’s oil supply to disruptions and the resulting price shocks. Link to book at Amazon.com Link to book at Powell’s Link to book at Multnomah County Library List Price: Matthew Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy,…