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  1. Connecting People and Place Prosperity: Workforce Development and Urban Planning in Scholarship and Practice

    In recent years, the field of workforce development has emerged as a distinct area of policy and practice. While planning scholars have begun to engage with the workforce development field, its relevance and...

  2. Webinar: Breaking Barriers to Bike Share: Insights on Equity

    While the number of public bike share systems in the United States grew considerably in recent years, early evidence indicated that many systems were not serving the diverse populations of cities, particularly...

  3. Evolution of an Academic Village: Vision for Inner South Portland

    This vision of an Academic Village is a culmination of three months of work by 12 students in the Spring 2007 Urban Design Workshop at Portland State University. Our understanding of the Academic Village arose...

  4. The Historical, Political, Social, and Individual Factors That Have Influenced the Development of Aging and Disability...

    This thesis reports on the perspectives and experiences of policymakers, advocates, agency supervisors, and experts in the field of gerontology, about the development of Aging and Disability Resource Centers...

  5. Beyond Fruit: Examining Community in a Community Orchard

    The Fruits of Diversity Community Orchard, located in Portland, Oregon in an affordable housing neighborhood, is a site of alternative food provisioning in which a group of people, organized by two nonprofits,...

  6. 2017 Point-In-Time: Count of Homelessness in Portland/Gresham/Multnomah County, Oregon

    The 2017 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count of Homelessness provides a snapshot of people who were experiencing homelessness on the night of Wednesday, February 22, 2017, in Portland, Gresham, and Multnomah County,...

  7. Strengthening Small Business Clusters Serving Minority Communities

    The existence of thriving and numerous small businesses is instrumental to generating wealth within a community. They provide a diverse employment base for local residents, leading to greater economic...

  8. Manufactured Home Parks: NORCs Awaiting Discovery

    This paper examines manufactured home parks as a type of naturally occurring retirement community and considers the potential for adding social service programs (NORC-SSP) to enable further aging in place. An...

  9. Faces of a Growing Community: A Profile of the Hispanic Population of Hillsboro, Oregon

    Shortly after World War II, Mexican immigrants began moving to the Hillsboro area to take jobs as farm workers. Since 1980, the Hispanic population ofHillsboro has quintupled, and now exceeds 10% ofthe total....

  10. Making EcoDistricts Concepts and Methods for Advancing Sustainability in Neighborhoods

    This report is about how developing "EcoDistricts" in Portland can result in more sustainable neighborhoods and a more sustainable city. With generous funding from the Bullitt Foundation in Seattle, we have...

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