The Portland City-Region: Excavating the “Geopolitics of Success” (original) (raw)

Urban Growth Management and Its Discontents, 2008

Abstract

Oregon folklore has it that a simple coin flip between two East Coast pioneers kept Portland from being named Boston. While today placing a second Boston on the West Coast seems a particularly odd formulation, Portland is actually situated some seventy miles inland from the Pacific Ocean and, though located at the confluence of two major rivers and tied originally to the timber trade, this city of 560,000 is not really a port in the coastal sense of the term, certainly not like Boston, Seattle, Tacoma, or Baltimore. Portland is, however, classic in another sense. As first indicated in chapter 1, it is the one U.S. city—or more precisely city-region—usually identified with urban planning, in general, and what we now call the smart growth paradigm, in particular.

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