Private Profit Versus Public Service: Competing Demands in Urban Transportation History and Policy, Portland, Oregon, 1872-1970

Bianco, Martha J.

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“…The "growing distress experienced over the period between about 1905 and 1925" nevertheless coincided with increased usage; by 1923 "it was apparent that ridership and revenues were on a steady decline" (Bianco, 1994, 253), in part because of competition from the automobile. Bianco (1994) As is often the case with historical studies, the data in these figures appear to be collected from several sources, hence the mixing of modes in the upper graph. The overall trend, however, is clear.…”

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“…In this section of this paper, I will make the historical case for this argument by discussing how transportation use changed during this period. .. ,, (Bianco, 1994). Bianco (1994) chronicles the rise and fall ofthe streetcar in Portland in great detail.…”

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“….. ,, (Bianco, 1994). Bianco (1994) chronicles the rise and fall ofthe streetcar in Portland in great detail. Even while being constructed, the handwriting was on the wall for the streetcar system.…”

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“…Streetcar usage shows an upward trend until about 1920, then plummets. (Adapted from Bianco, 1994) Portland transportation scene, the various forms of public transportation began to diminish in importance" (Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration and Oregon State Highway Division, 1973, 6). At the same time automobile ownership and use were on the increase.…”

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Transportation and Land Use Patterns: Monitoring Urban Change Using Aerial Photography, Portland, Oregon 1925-1945

Fyfield

2000

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Special thanks go to Brian Johnson of the Stanley Parr Archives and Records Center and Elizabeth Winroth of the Oregon Historical Society for breaking with policy, and taking the time to personally transport the aerial photographs used in this thesis to my workplace, the BLM Oregon State Office, for scanning on a large format scanner, and waiting patiently. Henry Wolter, Jim Rounds and Greg Chan of the BLM all assisted in the process of acquiring and working with these images. Dr. Robert Johnston's research into the political history of Portland's eastside demonstrated to me the value of understanding past processes. What began as a notso-straightforward cartographic commission for his recently published book, and our voluminous correspondence as he explained the forces behind the patterns I was mapping, sparked an interest in the development of the city that has become my home. Of course, my greatest appreciation is reserved for my wife, Dr. Margie Fyfield, for her support as I worked towards this degree. Our promise to help one another complete our educations has taken nearly twenty years to come to fruition, but like many things that do not happen easily, it has been a worthy pursuit.

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Transportation and Land Use Patterns: Monitoring Urban Change Using Aerial Photography, Portland, Oregon 1925-1945

Fyfield

2000

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A Brief Portrait of Multimodal Transportation Planning in Oregon and the Path to Achieving It, 1890-1974

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Lowry

2010

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Excerpts: "With its statewide land use program, urban growth boundaries, Transportation Planning Rule (TPR), active (often activist) citizenry, progressivedominated government, and, in Portland, modern history of transit investment and self-consciously alternative urban self-concept, Oregon has gone further, for longer, and been more successful than most places in pushing back against automobiles' dominance of environment, lifestyle, and landscape. "Two moments in time brought particular change. In shifting away from freeway-building in the 1970s, Portland-area and state planners decided that transportation decisions and infrastructure need no longer dictate land use but could serve it. And with the 1991 TPR, Oregon became a pioneer in managing what has been called the transportation land-use connection. "The story of Oregon's 'multimodal' transportation planning must be written in such as way as to inform [the] commuter ... about the system he thinks just is, how it got there, and how and why he should appreciate its substance. As much as possible, the story, as it is begun here, relates complex subject matter to his life and times, delving into the big controversies that come from society's deep disagreement over conservation and development, aesthetics and wealth. It dips into older history, then moves more or less chronologically. In order to do justice to the various practitioners and players, it includes four stages of action: the national, the metropolitan, the state governmental and the local." "A full history to the present day would also attend to some of the less attended-to aspects of transportation planning, the ones that do not as often appear on newspapers' front pages. These include freight planning and its relationship to the business and corporate communities; the specialized work of modelers, system-design technologists, economists, and intelligent-transportation engineers; and the visions, dreams, schemes and projections of futurists, whose imaginings in bygone eras truly led to the very infrastructures we see today. Some current visions-from hydrogen highways to cycle-towns, bullet trains to electric-car cities, biofueled states to right-priced thoroughfares-will become the daily environments of tomorrow, while other visions fade away."

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Private Profit Versus Public Service: Competing Demands in Urban Transportation History and Policy, Portland, Oregon, 1872-1970

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Transportation and Land Use Patterns: Monitoring Urban Change Using Aerial Photography, Portland, Oregon 1925-1945

Transportation and Land Use Patterns: Monitoring Urban Change Using Aerial Photography, Portland, Oregon 1925-1945

A Brief Portrait of Multimodal Transportation Planning in Oregon and the Path to Achieving It, 1890-1974

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