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 Stories About: books AND placemaking AND Portland
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City limits
A poet takes the measure of Portland -- on foot |
Kit Stolz |
11 Feb 2008 |
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| Starting early this century, poet and professor David Oates set out to walk the boundary line that Oregon drew around the city of Portland decades ago to concentrate its development and discourage sprawl. What is today called 'the New Urbanism' is not new in Portland: it's been part of the political process since l973. As Oates writes in a forward to a book he recently published about his adopted state's experiment in urban utopianism: We hope to grow in, and in som ... |
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| Topics: books, placemaking, Portland (all these topics) |
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