City Limits: Walking Portland’s Boundary

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Portland’s Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) was once designed to hold the bursting metropolitan area in check whilst protecting Willamette Valley orchards and fields from sprawling suburbia. David Oates traveled the 260-mile boundary that defines Portland to discover how the UGB has contributed to that success. City Limits is his record of the journey.
From conversations with the people he encounters on his walks, Oates comes to view the UGB as a long-running experiment in community regulate over development. But in up to date years, the growth boundary has come under fire from developers, property rights advocates, and other critics. Just after Oates completed his walks, a statewide vote gutted Oregon’s land use laws.
Oates explores issues of conformity and conflict at the UGB within the company of quite a lot of individuals he once in a while invites along for the day’s walk – artists, writers, urban planners, environmentalists, developers, a political candidate, a wine grape grower. Reflecting Oates’s belief within the power of community and collaboration, many of their thoughts and writings in regards to the experience are included within the book.

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