Oregon Is Not Just Portland: Planning a Sustainable Economy in Peripheral Areas of the American West

My article, "The Oregon Way: Planning a sustainable economy in the American West," began from observations made while walking my dog. Having recently moved to Oregon, I was excited by the prospect of living in the purported "sustainability capital" of the planet (according to its press clippings). In contrast, while walking in my neighborhood–and later, while traveling around the state–what I was seeing (outside of a few gentrified neighborhoods) were poorly built and maintained houses, numerous working poor on the edge, and towns without any solid economic base.

Robert Young

Full Story: http://www.planetizen.com/node/80824/oregon-not-just-portland-planning-sustainable-economy-peripheral-areas-american-west

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36 Hours in Portland, Ore.

There is no place in the country better known as a bastion of good living, leisure and happy inebriation than Oregon’s largest little city, the low-lying mini-metropolis of Portland.

By FREDA MOON

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/travel/what-to-do-in-36-hours-in-portland.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-middle-span-region&region=c-column-middle-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-middle-span-region&_r=0