Greater Portland Population Growth and Sprawl
Portland, Oregon was a star at curbing rural sprawl in the 1990s.
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Date range: 1990-2000
Caption: Person for person in the last decade, new development in metropolitan Portland consumed less than half as much land as the average city in a 15-city study by Sightline Institute.
Publication date: 2004 |
Originally published in: The Portland Exception |
Topic(s):
Sprawl & Transportation
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Graphic type: Animated map