Governor Newsome Yanks Chain on $1.7 Million San Francisco Restroom
Now another story on a city's inability to provide for basic human needs: State government is canceling a $1.7 million for a 150-square-foot restroom serving ...
Whoever Thought it Would Come To This?
The buck stops with the City of Portland. It's the government agency charged with making the place livable. If there's a problem- be that homelessness, ...
Cities Like Portland Have Lost Their Leadership. To Rebuild, We Need More Citizens to Create Places Like This At the Local Level.
Earlier this week, Nicole Gallines of the Manhattan Institute wrote a NYT op-ed piece titled "The Life and Death of American Cities" about the change ...
Oregon Governor Stepping Over Portland Mayor To Fix Downtown
She will co-lead a task force with the CEO of The Standard, a well-run company that has long been a good corporate citizen. Who called ...
The “Star-is-Born” Crossed Trajectories of New Urbanism and the Strong Towns Movement
They have the same passions and are singing the same love song- about cities. They even held their national meetings in the same conference hotel ...
The Difference Between A “Smart City” And A Dumb City Is Not Technology But The Way It’s Manages Traffic Today
Saturday I sat in traffic in Seattle with the traffic backed up miles in both directions while the express lanes remained closed. Opening those lanes ...
Downtown Portland’s Recovery Is Now Up To Its Citizens
Last week my post about the need for leadership in bringing back downtown went viral, prompting the head of the City's economic development authority, Prosper ...
The Biggest Problem In Downtown Portland Isn’t Homelessness or Drugs, But Leadership
As a fourth-generation Oregonian, I love downtown Portland, and when I was in town yesterday I spent three hours walking from the Civic Auditorium on ...
Let ‘Em Go?
In the 1950s and 1960s, cities annexed unincorporated areas to grab the taxes. Now a number of conservative counties in eastern Oregon have held advisory ...
Who Will Cities Appeal To?
This is an interesting op-ed piece on whether cities make themselves high-culture destinations, especially for visitors and affluent suburbanites, or more habitable for a broader ...