After RLC received national press attention, homeless shelters and soup kitchens in Portland, Oregon, Washington, DC and other cities reached out to Robert for partnership advice. The organization now reaches 16 cities around the country.Only a year into his finance job, Robert gave up his six-...
This past October the Portland City Council adopted a newClimate Action Plan,coauthored by the City and Multnomah County. The Plan includes a greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory, similar to thereportrecentlypublishedby the City of Seattle, but that’s where the similarity ends. Because apparently unli...
Portland has its sophisticated culture, with the Oregon Symphony, the Oregon Ballet, the Portland Opera, and several thriving theater companies. But there's also the fun and funky side of the city, with such oddball attractions as the open-all-night Voodoo Doughnut and Velveteria, the museum o...
The city has unveiled its' 'Downtown 2024' master plan and it calls for a significant amount of development in and around the Big Sioux River over the next three years. The project calls for a combination of $400 million in private and public money for 'additional office, retail, housing...
The city paid the Fair Housing Council of Oregon, a nonprofit, $19,000 to conduct the testing last summer. It is part of an analysis Portland must complete every five years to show it's trying to reduce housing discrimination and to keep $9 million to $11 million in annual federal grant...
Idaho has expanded its commercial base as a tourism and agricultural state to include science and technology industries. Science and technology have become the largest single economic center (over 25% of the state's total revenue) within the state and are greater than agriculture, forestry and min...
third party testing agencies such as Underwriters Laboratories, Underwriters Laboratories Canada, Southwest Research Institute, United States Testing, Western Fire Center, Forestry Commission of New South Wales Australia, European Institute for Fire Research, United States Forestry Department and Maxim ...
Portland, city, seat (1760) of Cumberland county, southwestern Maine, U.S. The state’s largest city, it is the hub of a metropolitan statistical area that includes the cities of South Portland and Westbrook and the towns of Falmouth, Cape Elizabeth, Cum
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Trees in the City: Valuing Street Trees in Portland, Oregon. Landsc. Urban Plan. 2010, 94, 77–83. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Mullaney, J.; Lucke, T.; Trueman, S.J. A Review of Benefits and Challenges in Growing Street Trees in Paved Urban Environments. Landsc. Urban Plan. 2015...