Description
The Pacific Northwest is green to the extreme. Yet a day trip can go from pristine wilderness to downtown Seattle, Portland, or Vancouver. How are these commercial and cultural hot spots keeping nature and growth in balance — and what's coming next? Trace the path from forests and fish to bikes and brews as Planning the Pacific Northwest continues the APA Planners Press series on how planning shapes major American cities.
Chapter
Section 1: Planning Retrospective—From Timber to Technology
2 The Evolution of Washington State’s Growth Management Law
3 Taming the ‘Shameless Threat’: Farmland Protections and Corralling Sprawl in Oregon
4 A Historical Perspective on the Metropolitan Portland Urban Growth Boundary
5 Protecting Working Farm and Forest Landscapes: How Do Oregon and Washington Compare?
6 Implementing State, Regional, and Local Housing Diversity Policy Through Master Planning
7 Implementing Oregon’s Transportation Planning Rule
8 Seattle Neighborhood Planning
9 Designing Seattle: The Role of Urban Design in the City’s Evolution: 1970 to 2020
10 Seattle’s Past at Present: Local Approaches to Historic Preservation
11 The Emerald and the Rose: Open Space Planning in Metropolitan Seattle and Portland
12 There’s No Place like Home
Section 2: Planning Today: Green to the Extreme
13 Native Currents and Coast Salish Planning
14 Harmonizing the Natural and Built Environment on the Coast of the Salish Sea
15 Planning Without Borders in Cascadia
16 Building Balanced Communities: Equity and Inclusion
17 Blue-Green to the Extreme in Portland and Seattle
18 The Columbia River: Community Participation and Science-Based Planning
19 The Cloud Beneath the Clouds
21 Energy Efficiency the Cascadia Way
22 From Table to Tank: Biodiesel in Washington
23 Process Makes Perfect? Replacing the Great Alaskan Way Viaduct
24 Preserving Seattle Grunge in the Pike/Pine Neighborhood
25 A Tale of Three Cities on the Road to Smart Green Growth
26 Ecological Repair and Neighborhood Revitalization: the Foster Floodplain Natural Area
Section 3: Planning Prospective: What’s Next?
27 Redefining Planning in Cascadia
28 Car Spaces into People Places
29 Lights On or Off? Hydropower in a Changing Climate
30 Planning for Greenhouse Gas Reduction: An Oregon Perspective
31 Shifting Baselines: Dam Removal and the Evolution of Environmental Ethics in the Pacific Northwest
33 Portland’s Artisan Economy—Beyond the Myth of Romantic Localism
34 A Decade of Food Systems Planning in the Central Puget Sound
35 Cart Blanche: Pacific Northwest Street Food
36 Growing Transit Communities
38 Green Infrastructure Mashup in the Emerald City
39 Solar in the Rainy City
40 Game-Changing Perspectives on Planning
Conclusion: Planning in the Pacific Northwest
Planning the Pacific Northwest
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