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Bikeability About More Than Bike Lanes
Via Pricetags: A paper by PSU MURP candidate Nathan McNeil (PDF) analyzes “bikeability” and develops a Walkscore-style scoring system. He specifically compares East Portland with more central parts of the City and gives East Portland an average score of 76 compared to 96 for more central neighborhoods. Among the points of comparison: East Portland has…
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Asking the Right Question About Burnside/Couch
It would appear that the debate over the future of West Burnside and Couch is about to re-ignite. This will be round three. I participated in round one, back in the middle of the last decade, when I represented my neighborhood in NW Portland on the stakeholder committee. There was broad consensus during that process…
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Why We Live Where We Live
Portland State University Center for Transportation Studies Spring 2010 Transportation Seminar Series Speaker: Cynthia Chen, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington Topic: Residential Choice Locations – A Search in the Mirror of the Past Abstract: We propose to decompose residential self-selection by understanding its formation process. We take a life course perspective…
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Post-Motordom Thursday Night
University of Oregon Graduate Forum Portland Urban Architecture Program Gordon Price Director, Simon Fraser University Urban Center and Former City Council Member, City of Vancouver, British Columbia “Vancouver and the Post-Motordom City” Lecture. Thursday April 22, 7:00 PM. Room 142, University of Oregon Portland Center. 70 NW Couch Street Follow-up Seminar. Friday April 23, 9:00…
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Transit Good for your Mortgage?
Passed on by a reader from of all places “autoblog“.