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Sunday, December 26, 2004
Portland's urban planning falls by the wayside
The Oregonian's Randy Gragg laments:
Voted into being just five months apart 32 years ago, the 1972 Downtown Plan and Oregon Senate Bill 100 gave Oregon two of the most far-reaching visions in the history of American urban planning.As someone who has lived in both areas, I certainly hope Portland doesn't turn into Los Angeles.
At least until the nearsightedness of 2004.
Much as they rose together, they fell in November. The Downtown Plan's brilliant framework of tightly focused partnerships between business and government cracked with November's pitiful deal to revitalize the transit mall. Senate Bill 100's design for a mutually beneficial urban/rural divide was shattered by Measure 37.
In the local world of architecture and planning for 2004, nothing measures in profundity to those two events.
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