Urban development centered on public transportPortland, Oregon,
provides a learning case of multiple strategies and achievements
from several decades of work for sustainable urbanisation,
responsible land-use, and transformative transportation. Dense
and convivial transit-oriented development (TOD) has been
substituted for new highway building, with a range of supporting
measures from city, regional, state, and national levels.
Portland is widely known for its Urban Growth Boundaries,
combatting sprawl. Keywords: transit-oriented development (TOD),
vehicle miles travelled (VMT), urban space conversions, Urban
Growth Boundaries. Starting during the Great Depression,
Portland was inspired by urbanist Lewis Mumford to make “cities
for people not cars”. The city worked to protect the human scale
of its downtown. One way Portland did this was to institute – at
the city level – both regional planning and governance for land
use and transport. These early initiatives provided a framework
that for several decades has