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Action Plan Report: Aurora 2017 Vision Implementation

In early 2007, the City of Aurora Planning Commission sought the assistance of JDL Planning, a consultant team consisting of five members in the Masters ofUrban and Regional Planning program at Portland State...
Periodic Atlas of the Metroscape: Mapping Measure 37, Take One

When Oregon voters passed Measure 37 in November 2004, its implications moved from the hypothetical to the actual. This edition of the Metroscape atlas explores how Measure 37 claims might affect Oregon’s...
Daytime Variation of Urban Heat Islands: The Case Study of Doha, Qatar

Recent evidence suggests that urban forms and materials can help to mediate temporal variation of microclimates and that landscape modifications can potentially reduce temperatures and increase accessibility to...
Periodic Atlas of the Metroscape: Lassoing Urban Sprawl

This issue's atlas compares the metroscape with four other metropolitan areas (San Antonio, Columbus, Charlotte, and Orlando). Using 1990 and 2000 census block group data, density classifications were used to...
Marketing Central City Residence to an Aging Baby Boom: The Transportation Angle

This paper proposes that the aging baby boom will contribute significantly to transportation problems in the future because 1) current land use patterns necessitate dependence on cars; and 2) aging baby boom...
Drivers of Urban Sprawl in Urbanizing China – A Political Ecology Analysis

Chinese cities have undergone a process of urbanization that has resulted in significant urban sprawl in the past 20 years. This paper uses the 'ecology of actors' framework to analyze the interactions between...
Research and Development of a Land Use Scenario Modeling Tool

Oregon Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Transportation Planning and Analysis Unit (TPAU) developed a land use modeling tool called the “Land Use Scenario Developer in R” (LUSDR). LUSDR is a modeling...
A GIS Methodology for Assessing the Growth Impacts of Highway Improvements

This paper presents a methodology to assess the induced land use effects of state highway improvements on urban development patterns. The methodology is applied to the case study City of Hillsboro, Oregon and...
A Man for All Regions

A native of Egypt, Nohad Toulan has been a faculty member at Portland State University since 1972 when he founded the Urban Studies Program at Portland State University. Under his leadership the program evolved...
On the Edge of Agriculture: An Interview with Narendra Varma and Gianna Banducci of Our Table Cooperative

One mile outside Portland’s urban growth boundary near Sherwood OR, a new farm business is modeling innovative practices that could become the future of Oregon agriculture. The Our Table Cooperative brings...