Portland: Quest for the Livable City (DVD)

Making Sense of Place Film Series

Author(s): Lincoln Institute and Northern Light Productions
Publication Date: May 2009

$20.00; Inventory ID DVD003; English; ISBN 978-1-55844-198-9

Abstract

Oregon voters approved a ballot measure in 2004 that effectively paralyzed the land use planning system put in place nearly 30 years before. The measure threatened the urban growth boundary that had been established to prohibit development from sprawling into designated farmland and to encourage density and transit within the metropolitan region of Portland. Citizens took stock and examined issues of fairness and sustainability in Portland’s bold ambitions to be the city of the future. This 57-minute film tells the story of this journey through interviews and live footage of the election referendum on land use planning in 2007.

This is the third film in the Lincoln Institute series titled Making Sense of Place. The other films on Phoenix and Cleveland are also available on the Lincoln Institute Web site.