Exurban Commuting Patterns: A Case Study of the Portland Oregon Region

Davis, Judy S.

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“…The move to rural areas has been made possible as a result of improvements in transportation systems and relatively low private transportation costs (Bascom & Gordon, 1999;Davis, 1990;Jackson, 1985;Riley & Mohr, 1994), changes in communication systems, increased employment opportunities and greater job flexibility (Bunce, 1982;Davis, 1990;Gordon, 1996). Other factors may include personal preference (Bunce, 1982;Fisher & Mitchelson, 1981;Fugiutt & Brown, 1990;Phillips & Brunn, 1978;Ploch, 1978;Schwarzweller, 1979;Tucker, 1976), retirement, increased wealth (Riley & Mohr, 1994), non-metropolitan industrial growth (Bascom, 2000), inexpensive consumer goods (Riley & Mohr, 1994), and rural quality of life (Fisher & Mitchelson, 1981;Gordon, 1996).…”

Section: Motivations For Rural Livingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pace of life (Bryant et al, 1982;Williams & Sofranko, 1979); and, . Metropolitan population growth (Jackson, 1985;Davis, 1990).…”

Section: Motivations For Rural Livingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rural quality of life (Fuguitt & Zuiches, 1975;Ploch, 1978;Williams & Sofranko, 1979); . Idealisation of the rural as an ideal place to live (Davis, 1990).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Bunce (1982), the primary motivations of professionals and executives are different from many other groups: they move to small towns in search of community. Young professionals are more likely to be motivated by the desire to raise their children in a rural area (Bryant et al, 1982), whereas retirees are motivated by a desire to return to their roots (Weeks, 1976;Williams & Sofranko, 1979), amenity values, such as wildlife and opportunities to use trails (Nassauer et al, 2002), the perception of rural areas as a healthier place for retirement (Herbers, 1986;Lapping et al, 1989;Lewis, 1979), and the 'pleasures of rural driving' (Davis, 1990;Herbers, 1986;Salomon & Salomon, 1984). …”

Section: Motivations For Rural Livingmentioning

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‘… Silver in the Stars and Gold in the Morning Sun’: Non-farm Rural Landowners' Motivations for Rural Living and Attachment to their Land

Milburn

Brown

2010

Landscape Research

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Studies have identified that, given the opportunity, the majority of North Americans would prefer to live in small towns and rural areas. This preference is based in aesthetic notions linked to landscape features, personal meaning, and perceptions. In order to understand how the growing non-farm rural landowner population will influence the rural landscape, this research explored the motivations of non-farm rural landowners for living in rural areas, and their perceptions of their property. It involved five preliminary focus groups with farm and non-farm landowners owning land in rural, urbanising rural, and urbanised rural areas, and four final focus groups. The research also included a survey of 944 landowners in Southern Ontario. People choose to live in rural areas because they are quiet, natural, open, private, and clean. In contrast, people chose to buy their properties for very practical reasons: location, cost, availability and quality of resources, and size. Results suggest that non-farm rural landowners prefer landscapes with trees and water, and landscape health, restorative benefits, and aesthetic quality are crucial. Associations with family, history, and activities provide the affective connection which supports ongoing efforts on their land.

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Section: Motivations For Rural Livingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pace of life (Bryant et al, 1982;Williams & Sofranko, 1979); and, . Metropolitan population growth (Jackson, 1985;Davis, 1990).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Rural quality of life (Fuguitt & Zuiches, 1975;Ploch, 1978;Williams & Sofranko, 1979); . Idealisation of the rural as an ideal place to live (Davis, 1990).…”

Section: Motivations For Rural Livingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Motivations For Rural Livingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘… Silver in the Stars and Gold in the Morning Sun’: Non-farm Rural Landowners' Motivations for Rural Living and Attachment to their Land

Milburn

Brown

2010

Landscape Research

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“…In the context of bushfire hazard, we have i-Zone (Queensland Fire and Rescue Service, 2004), wildland-urban interface (Canadian Forest Service, 2004;Ewert, 1993), Hanson (1962) and forest-residential intermix (Carroll et al, 2005). There is also rural-urban interface (Pahl, 1966), rural-urban fringe (Meligrana, 2003), exurban (Nelson and Dueker, 1990;Nelson 1992;Hugo et al, 2003;Davis, 1990;McKenzie, 1996;Hugo et al, 2003) Burnley and Murphy (1995); Bunker and Houston (2003); Crump (2003);Exurban Change Program (2004) and suburbanisation (cf. American websites, Crump, 2003;Edwards, 2004).…”

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Communities and bushfire hazard in Australia: More questions than answers

Cottrell

2005

Environmental Hazards

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The issue of communities and their exposure to bushfire hazard is highly topical internationally. There is a perceived trend of greater exposure to bushfire risk which is exacerbated by increased levels of building in fire-prone areas or peri-urban regions. There is a need to clarify what we understand to be peri-urban regions, and how we conceptualise and describe the communities that reside in them, in order that efficient and effective services are provided. However, more questions arise for us. For example: Where are these communities located? What do we know about the people who live there? What are the implications for bushfire mitigation? Despite being problematic, locality remains important to the understanding of communities, bushfire hazard and delivery of services. r

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Planning the Oregon Way: A Twenty-Year Evaluation

Abbott

Howe²,

Adler³

1995

The Western Historical Quarterly

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Planning the Oregon Way of Environmental Quality, started planning for a Willamette River Greenway, and presided over passage of bills to reassert public ownership of ocean beaches, to set minimum deposits for beverage cans and bottles, and to require removal of billboards. In this context of environmental awareness, the initial impulse for state land-use legislation came from the farms rather than the cities.' The center of concern was the hundred-mile-long Willamette Valley, where the Coast Range on one side and the high Cascades on the other reminded residents that land is finite. The first steps toward the idea of "exclusive farm use" between 1961 and 1967 involved legislative action to set the tax rate on farm land by land rental valuesin effect, by its productive capacity as farm landrather than by comparative sales data which might reflect the demand for suburban development. A conference on "The Willamette ValleyWhat Is our Future in Land Use?" held early in 1967 spread awareness of urban pressures on Oregon's agricultural base. With key members drawn from the ranks of Oregon farmers, the Legislative Interim Committee on Agriculture responded by developing the proposal that became Senate Bill 10, Oregon's first mandatory planning legislation. Adopted in 1969, SB 10 took the major step of requiring cities and counties to prepare comprehensive land-use plans and zoning ordinances that met ten broad goals. The deadline was December 31, 1971. How-cerely concerned with promoting economic development in Oregon should cheer this program rather than fight it."5 A task force headed by Umatilla County farmer Stafford Hansell heard testimony from more than four hundred Oregonians and reported essentially the same conclusions to Governor Vic Atiyeh. The election returns showed the same regional divisions as before, with strong opposition from ranching counties in the southeastern corner of the state and from lumbering counties in the southwestern corner. The 1982 referendum was the last comprehensive attack on the Oregon planning system. The rest of the decade brought institutional stability. A continuing economic slump triggered net outmigration that totaled 86,000 from 1980 to 1986. Stagnant population meant little demand for new housing and few pressures for land conversion, leaving the assumptions of most local plans unchallenged. Local planning activities xviii Planning the Oregon Way want. Oregon policy makers and planners are actively exploring ways to intervene in this trend and to effect greater densities. The transportation rule is an outgrowth of frustrations with the historical separation of land use and transportation planning. As SyAdler indicates, the hoped-for integration of land use and transportation should achieve more purposeful urban form and a land use pattern that provides a range of mobility alternatives. Similarly, a gradual convergence of land use planning and economic development policy is occurring. Especially in major urban areas, as John DeGrove points out, large economic interests ackno...

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Exurban Commuting Patterns: A Case Study of the Portland Oregon Region

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

‘… Silver in the Stars and Gold in the Morning Sun’: Non-farm Rural Landowners' Motivations for Rural Living and Attachment to their Land

‘… Silver in the Stars and Gold in the Morning Sun’: Non-farm Rural Landowners' Motivations for Rural Living and Attachment to their Land

Communities and bushfire hazard in Australia: More questions than answers

Planning the Oregon Way: A Twenty-Year Evaluation

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