Portland, Oregon

Template:Infobox City Portland is the largest city in Oregon, and county seat of Multnomah County. It is located within the Pacific Northwest, straddling the Willamette River and at its confluence with the Columbia River. According to the U.S. Census Bureau as of July 2003, the city's population was estimated to be 538,544, a growth of 1.7% over the April 2000 census figure of 529,121.

Contents

1 City nicknames 2 History 3 Geography 3.1 The city and the region 3.2 Portland's five "quadrants" (sic) 3.2.1 Northwest 3.2.2 Southwest 3.2.3 North Portland 3.2.4 Northeast 3.2.5 Southeast 3.3 Metropolitan area 4 Transportation 5 Architecture 6 Parks 7 Beer 8 Sports 8.1 Skiing 8.2 Professional sports 9 Tourist attractions 10 Museums etc. 11 Public gardens 12 Colleges and universities in the metro area 13 Notable Portlanders 14 Demographics 15 Portland in popular culture 15.1 Books 15.2 Films 15.3 Music 16 Sister cities 17 Education 17.1 Riverdale School District 17.2 Portland Public School District 17.3 Independent schools 18 See also 19 External links 19.1 Maps 19.2 Official and non-profit websites 19.3 News coverage 19.4 Portland-related wikis 19.5 Commercial online guides 19.6 Portland-related personal websites 20 References

City nicknames

Portland has various nicknames whose popularity have ebbed and flowed over the years. The City of Roses and Rose City originated during the 1905 Lewis and Clark centennial. The climate is ideal for growing roses, and the city is home to the annual Rose Festival, the International Rose Test Garden, and the Rose Garden Arena.

One of the oldest nicknames, "Stumptown", comes from the period of phenomenal growth after 1847. The city was growing so rapidly that the stumps of trees cut down to make way for roads were left until manpower could be spared to remove them. In some areas, the stumps remained for so long that locals painted them white to make them more visible, and used them to cross the street without sinking into the mud.

Other nicknames include:

• City of Bridges, or Bridgetown, due to its numerous bridges;
• Little Beirut, so dubbed by the George H. W. Bush White House for the activism and protests that accompanied his visits;
• PDX, from the airport code of its airport;
• River City, because of its proximity to the Willamette River and Columbia River;
• Rip City, a nickname stemming from a chance remark from Bill Schonely, a long-time announcer for the Portland Trail Blazers;
• Soccer City USA, a nickname reportedly dating to the heyday of the Portland Timbers during the 1970s, and revived due to its history of supporting soccer such as the FIFA Women's World Cup games and the University of Portland men's and women's teams;
• Puddletown, because of its weather;
• P-town, presumably from "Portland" + "town"

History

Portland started as a spot known as "The Clearing" which was on the Willamette about half-way between Oregon City and Fort Vancouver. In 1843, William Overton saw great commercial potential for this land; his only problem was that he lacked the quarter needed to file a land claim. So, he struck a bargain with his partner Asa Lovejoy: for 25¢, Overton would share his claim to the 640 acre (2.6 km²) site.

Bored with clearing trees and building roads, Overton sold his half of the claim to Francis W. Pettygrove. When it came time to name their new town, Pettygrove and Lovejoy each wanted to name it after his home town. They settled the argument with a coin toss. Pettygrove won, and named it after Portland, Maine; had Lovejoy won, he intended to name it after Boston, Massachusetts.

In its early years, Portland existed in the shadow of Oregon City, the territorial capital 12 miles (19 km) upstream on the falls of the Willamette. However, Portland was located at the Willamette's head of navigation, the furthest point inland one could reliably reach by ship. This gave it a key advantage over its older peer. It also triumphed over early rivals like Milwaukie and Sellwood. By 1850 Portland had approximately 800 inhabitants, a steam sawmill, a log cabin hotel, and a newspaper, called the Weekly Oregonian.

Portland was the major port in the Pacific Northwest for much of the 19th century, until the 1890s when direct railroad access between the deep water harbor in Seattle and points east by way of Stampede Pass were built. Goods could then be transported from the northwest coast to inland cities without needing to navigate the dangerous bar at the mouth of the Columbia.

Like other west coast ports such as San Francisco, California, Astoria, Oregon, and Port Townsend, Washington, Portland was home to frequent acts of shanghaiing. Tunnels under city blocks stretching for blocks from the Willamette River, built perhaps for legitimate business reasons, became known as shanghai tunnels for their more clandestine use.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 376.5 km² (145.4 mi²). 347.9 km² (134.3 mi²) of it is land and 28.6 km² (11.1 mi²), or 7.6%, is water.

The Portland metropolitan area is located within the Willamette Valley, which follows the Willamette River and the I-5 Corridor. The valley consists of suburban municipalities sprawled around patches of farmland further south. The further north you travel, towards Portland, the thicker the population density becomes. The vast majority of Oregon's population lives in the Willamette Valley. Interstate 5 bisects the valley and a significant number of commuters travel the I-5 Corridor daily.

The city and the region

Portland is often cited as an example of a well-planned city. The credit for this starts with Oregon's proactive land use policies, particularly the establishment of an urban growth boundary (UGB) in 1974. The boundary preserved agricultural land in the mold of 19th Century farming techniques. This was atypical in an era when automobile use led many areas to neglect their core cities in favor of development along interstate highways, in suburbs, and satellite cities.

Portland's success in urban planning continues with the Metropolitan Service District (Metro for short), a regional government directly elected by voters. Metro's charter includes land use and transportation planning, solid waste management, and map development. Metro manages the UGB by coordinating with the cities and counties in the area to ensure a 20-year-supply of developable land with the infrastructure that land needs.

Portland also uses a City Agency called The Portland Development Commission to control development in the city.

Metro's master plan for the Portland region includes transit-oriented development: this approach, part of the new urbanism, promotes mixed-use and high-density development around light-rail stops and transit centers, and the investment of the metropolitan area's share of federal tax dollars into multiple modes of transportation. Metro's master plan also includes multiple town centers, smaller versions of the city center, scattered throughout the metropolitan area.

In 1995 Metro introduced the 2040 plan as a way to define long term growth planning. The 2040 Growth Concept (http://www.metro-region.org/article.cfm?articleID=231) is designed to accommodate 780,000 additional people and 350,000 jobs by 2040. This plan has created some criticism from environmentalists, but few consider it a threat to Portland's legacy of urban growth management.

An April 2004 study in the Journal of the American Planning Association tried to quantify the effects of Metro's plans on Portland's urban form. While the report cautioned against finding a direct link between any single one policy and any improvements in Portland's urban form, it showed strong correlation between Metro's 2040 plan and various west-side changes in Portland. Changes cited include increased density and mixed-use development as well as improved pedestrian/non-automobile accessibility.

Portland's five "quadrants" (sic)

As a result of a "great renumbering" on September 2, 1931, Portland is divided into five sections [1] (http://www.portlandonline.com/auditor/index.cfm?&a=bbadi&c=cheai). Burnside Street bisects it into northern and southern halves. Below Burnside are the Southwest and Southeast sections, divided by the Willamette River. Above it, are Northwest, North, and Northeast sections; a separate North section is due to a bend in the Willamette which splits what would otherwise be a northwest quadrant into North Portland and Northwest sections of town. Williams Avenue divides North Portland from Northeast Portland. Locals refer to these areas by their section names (such as "Northwest"), with the exception of "North Portland", for which the full name is typically used, although it is commonly called "The Portland Peninsula" or "The Peninsula" by the locals, and infrequently called "NoPo" by tourists from California or from the other "quadrants". The more densely populated parts of the city proper are somewhat asymmetrical, with the west side hemmed in by the West Hills, while the flatter east side stretches on for about 170 blocks, until it meets Gresham. There are some 300 city blocks that are numbered, such as 282nd street in Gresham. They extend from the beginning of East Portland, at the Willamette River, to the outer fringes of the suburbs of Gresham, one of the largest suburbs containing 100,000 residents. Beyond 300 blocks east is rural Multnomah County.

As with many cities, the various areas of Portland have developed a (generally) friendly rivalry, with "west-siders" described as high-class, refined, snobby, or elite and "east-siders" described as relaxed, comfortable, low-classed, or unrefined. As always, there are some seeds of truth to these descriptions, but generally, most Portlanders are friendly and welcoming to each other and outsiders.

Northwest

Northwest includes the Pearl District, a fairly recent name for what originally was an old warehouse area. Since the late 1980s, many of the existing warehouses have been converted into lofts, and new multi-story condominiums have also been developed. The increasing density has attracted an urban mix of restaurants, brewpubs, shops, and art galleries, though in some cases pioneering tenants have been priced out of the area. Its galleries sponsor artists' receptions on the first Thursday of every month. The Pearl District serves as a model for returning polluted land to worthwhile economic use. Classified by the Federal Government as a "Brownfield" site, the polluted land is topped by high rise buildings which feature condominiums which regularly sell in excess of six or seven figures. The pollution remediation is incentivized by full property tax abatements for one or two decades for the condominium owners.

Further west is the tiny NW 21st and 23rd Avenue neighborhood and shopping area. When Portland natives say Northwest, they often mean this area, which is also called Uptown, Nob Hill and the Alphabet District. This area has a mix of Victorian era houses, apartment buildings from throughout the 20th century, and various businesses centered around Legacy Samaritan Medical Center. The Portland Streetcar connects this area to downtown.

Even further northwest lies part of what is known as Portland's "West Hills", including the majority of Forest Park. The MAX Line runs through a tunnel in the West Hills and has a full station in the center of the tunnel known as the "Zoo stop". The Zoo stop has a zoo, an arboretum, beautiful hiking trails, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Some lucky homeowners commute to downtown by walking through the Park to the Zoo stop to ride the Max. The West Hills underwent rapid expansion starting in the 1960's and continuing through the 1970's. The West Hills features many split levels which are lovingly maintained.

Portland's Old Chinatown neighborhood is marked by a pair of lions at the corner of NW 4th and Burnside, and includes the district along the Willamette River between Burnside and Union Station. Before World War II, this area also had a Japan Town.

Southwest

Southwest includes

• The heart of the city's downtown, centered on Pioneer Courthouse Square ("Portland's living room");
• The West Hills, an expensive neighborhood built among part of the Tualatin Mountains;
• Various suburban neighborhoods, including Raleigh Hills, West Slope, Multnomah Village, and Garden Home,
• Various suburban cities, including Beaverton, Hillsboro, Tigard, Forest Grove, Wilsonville, Lake Oswego, Lake Grove, West Linn, Dunthorpe, Tualatin, Sherwood, Newberg, McMinnville Dundee
• The campuses of Portland State University, OHSU, and Lewis and Clark College,
• Alpenrose Dairy, the grounds of which host track cycling and Little League sports;
• The south riverfront along Macadam Boulevard and the Willamette, over 100 acres (0.4 km²) of former industrial land.

Downtown Portland has compact city blocks and narrow streets. Each block is 200 ft (60 m) square; by comparison, Seattle's city blocks are 240 by 320 feet (70 by 100 m), and Manhattan's east-west streets are divided into blocks that are from 600 to 800 feet (180 to 240 m) long. In addition, most streets are 64 feet (20 m) wide, so the combination of compact blocks and narrow streets make the downtown more pedestrian-friendly. The 264 foot (80 m) long combined blocks divide one mile (1.6 km) of road into exactly 20 separate blocks.

The city of Portland is hoping to redevelop the south riverfront into a mixed-use, high-density neighborhood, with 2700 residential units and 5,000 high-tech jobs after build-out. It is estimated that it would cost about two billion dollars to build.

North Portland

North Portland, another working-class area, contains the St. Johns neighborhood adjacent to the St. Johns Bridge. St. Johns has been described as having an old-fashioned and slightly run-down feeling; North Portland overall has been accredited with a cozy "small town" charm by some inhabitants. North Portland is racially mixed. It is home to a large population of African Americans as well as Hispanics and Caucasians.

During World War II, a planned development named Vanport was constructed to the north of this section between the city limits and the Columbia River. It grew to be the second largest city in Oregon, but was wiped out by a disastrous flood in 1948. The old Housing Authority of Portland's Columbia Villa in the Portsmouth Neighborhood is being rebuilt; the new, $150 million community will be known as New Columbia and will offer public housing, rental housing, and single family home ownership units.

As of 2004, the area includes a new addition to the light-rail line along Interstate Avenue, which parallels Interstate 5. It is also home to the University of Portland. North Portland also has other various public transportation routes with several frequent service lines.

North Portland is also known to locals as NoPo. This is especially true online, specifically on Craigslist and other local forums.

Northeast

Northeast contains a diverse collection of neighborhoods, both sociologically and ethnically, and is one of the most diverse areas of the city. For example, while Irvington and the Alameda Ridge boast some of the most expensive homes in Portland, nearby Albina is a more working-class neighborhood. Because it is so large, Northeast Portland can essentially be divided into two sections ethnically, culturally, and geographically. There is an inner Northeast Portland and an outer Northeast Portland. The inner Northeast neighborhoods that surround Martin Luther King jr. Blvd. (MLK) are predominately African American. These neighborhoods resemble typical urban inner-city environments found in most U.S. major cities. Outer Northeast is mostly Caucasian, but is also integrated with Asians, Hispanics, and Blacks. The further you go into inner Northeast, the more segregated it becomes with African Americans. New thousand-unit high-rise public housing projects are currently being constructed in this area. Inner Northeast includes several shopping districts such as the Lloyd and Hollywood Districts. The city plan targets Lloyd District as another mixed-use area, with high-rise residential development. Developers are waiting for the success of a seed project before intensive development occurs. No development occurs anywhere in Portland without significant involvement and approval by the city and one of its major agencies, the Portland Development Commission (PDC).

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Rose Quarter is another district within the area. It is named after the Rose Garden, which is the home of the Portland Trail Blazers, and includes the Blazers' former home, the Memorial Coliseum. The Rose Quarter was created by the city using eminent domain to acquire the houses and eliminating a full neighborhood of middle income people of color. The Memorial Coliseum is the home to Portland's hockey team, the Winterhawks, though many of their games are played at the Rose Garden. The city still holds the lease to the land, but the buildings were owned by private business interests until they went into receivership. During both teams' home games, the area is quite active, with spectators for the game mixing with local restaurant and bar patrons (particularly when both teams play the same night at the same time). The city hopes to expand this area beyond game-time entertainment, by promoting a major increase in residential units in the quarter using zoning and tax incentives, but the easy accessabilty of the MAX Lines (rapid transit) as well as numerous bus lines clears this quarter pretty quickly after events.

Southeast

Southeast stretches from the warehouses by the river, through the historic Ladd's Addition, to hippie/Generation X Hawthorne and Belmont districts over Mt. Tabor. Then the area extends into miles of "working-class" neighborhoods beyond 82nd Avenue. Southeast is also an ethnically diverse neighborhood home to many Russians and Hispanics.

Farther south, the Brooklyn, Sellwood, Woodstock, and Brentwood-Darlington neighborhoods and wealthy areas near Reed College are close to the Willamette, with Clackamas Town Center acting as a hub for business further east, where I-205 splits the region. Mall 205 attracts numerous Washington residents daily, taking advantage of Oregon's lack of sales tax and easy access from Vancouver's eastern suburbs.

St. Phillip Neri Church, located at SE 18th and Division, just South of Ladd's Addition, is one of Portland's many architectural treasures. Constructed in the 1920's, the main church building features Deco and characteristics of the great movie houses of the Western US of that period. The Church has won awards for Environmental Design.

Between the 1920s and the 1960s, Southeast was home to Lambert Gardens.

Southeast Portland is usually regarded as the home of many of Portland's more colorful characters (of which there are no shortages). Portland features a myriad of active political movements including a chapter of the IWW (Wobblies), as well as other more mundane Socialist, Socialist Workers, Communists, Environmental Socialists, etc. In some neighborhoods, getting coffee at Starbucks is considered a "right-wing" act.

Southeast Portland also features Mt. Tabor, which is known for its beautiful walking paths.

Metropolitan area

The Portland metropolitan area spans Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties, as well as parts of Columbia and Yamhill counties in Oregon, and Clark County in Washington. The immediate metropolitan area has a population of 2,016,357 as of July 2003, which is 5.2% more than the 2000 census figure for the area. The area includes the neighboring cities of Beaverton, Gresham, Hillsboro, Milwaukie, Lake Oswego, Oregon City, Fairview, Wood Village, Troutdale, Tualatin and Tigard, as well as Vancouver, Washington.

Transportation

See Transportation in Portland

Architecture

See Architecture in Portland

Parks

Portland is proud of its parks and its legacy of preserving open spaces. In fact, it has one of the highest parks-per-capita ratios among cities in the United States.

Forest Park is one of the largest wilderness park within city limits in the United States, with over 5,000 acres (20 km²).

Portland is also home to Mill Ends Park, the world's smallest park (being a two-foot diameter circle, its area is only about 0.3 square meters). Washington Park (web site) (http://www.portlandparks.org/Parks/Washington.htm) is west of downtown, home to the Oregon Zoo, a Japanese Garden, the International Rose Test Garden, all accessible from a MAX stop which is the deepest subway station in the country.

Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park runs along west bank of the Willamette for the length of downtown. The 37 acre (150,000 m²) park was built in 1974 after a freeway was removed. Today it plays host to large events throughout the year, including the Waterfront Blues Festival, Oregon Brewers Festival, Bite of Oregon, and several Rose Festival events.

In addition, within Portland's downtown, two groups of contiguous city blocks are dedicated for park space; they are referred to as the North and South Park Blocks.

Portland is also home to Portland Classical Chinese Garden, an authentic representation of a Suzhou-style walled garden. Local construction workers provided the site preparation and foundation and dozens of workers from Suzhou, using material from China, constructed its walls and other structures, including a tea house.

The only state park in the area is Tryon Creek State Park; its creek still has a run of steelhead.

Beer

Portland and certain other Oregon cities (like Hood River and Bend), are well-known for their good beer. It is often said that Portland is the home of the microbrew revolution. Some illustrate Portlanders' interest in the beverage by an offer made in 1888, when local brewer Henry Weinhard volunteered to pump beer from his brewery into the pipes of the newly dedicated Skidmore Fountain. However, the renown for quality beer dates to the 1980s, when microbreweries and brewpubs began to pop up all over the city. Their growth was supported by the abundance of local ingredients, including two-row barley, over a dozen varieties of hops, and the pure water from Bull Run and other watersheds of nearby Mount Hood.

Today, the city has more craft brewers than any other city in North America, and for that matter, more breweries than any other city in the world. The McMenamin brothers alone have over thirty brewpubs scattered throughout the metropolitan area, many in renovated theaters and other old buildings otherwise destined for demolition. In 1999, Michael Jackson (the beer hunter, not the musician) called it a candidate for the beer capital of the world because the city had more breweries than Cologne, Germany.

Portland hosts a number of festivals throughout the year in celebration of beer. One of them, the Oregon Brewers Festival, is the largest gathering of independent craft brewers in North America.

Sports

Skiing

Portland is served by a number of local resorts located on nearby Mount Hood: Timberline, Mt. Hood Meadows, Ski Bowl, Cooper Spur, and Ski Bunny. Timberline allows skiers to reach the Mt. Hood Glacier area and allows skiing year round. In the summer months there are many ski and snowboard camps. Timberline remains one of only two resorts in North America to have year-round skiing, Whistler in British Columbia being the other.

Professional sports

Portland is an annual circuit on the Champ Car World Series. It also features the following professional sports teams:

• Portland Trail Blazers, NBA
• Portland Beavers, Minor league baseball
• Portland Winterhawks, Western Hockey League
• Portland Timbers, United Soccer Leagues

Portland will have a National Lacrosse League team for the league's 2006 season.

Tourist attractions

See Tourist attractions in or around Portland, Oregon

Museums etc.

Public gardens

Colleges and universities in the metro area

• Home Page (http://www.aipd.artinstitutes.edu/) --- Art Institute of Portland
• Home Page (http://www.cascade.edu/) --- Cascade College
• Home Page (http://www.capstone.edu/) --- Capstone College
• Home Page (http://www.clark.edu/) --- Clark College
• Home Page (http://www.cu-portland.edu/) --- Concordia University
• Home Page (http://www.georgefox.edu/) --- George Fox University
• Home Page (http://www.lclark.edu/) --- Lewis and Clark College
• Home Page (http://www.law.lclark.edu/) --- Lewis and Clark Law School
• Home Page (http://www.linfield.edu/) --- Linfield College
• Home Page (http://www.marylhurst.edu/) --- Marylhurst University
• Home Page (http://www.multnomah.edu) --- Multnomah Bible College
• Home Page (http://www.ncnm.edu/i) --- National College of Naturopathic Medicine
• Home Page (http://www.ocom.edu/) --- Oregon College of Oriental Medicine
• Home Page (http://www.ohsu.edu/) --- Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).
  • --- Recently merged with Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI) to create current name: Oregon Health & Science University
  • --- Formerly Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU)
  • --- Formerly University of Oregon Medical School (U of O-Med School)
• Home Page (http://onprc.ohsu.edu/) --- Oregon National Primate Research Center
• Home Page (http://www.pnca.edu/) --- Pacific Northwest College of Art
• Home Page (http://www.pacificu.edu/) --- Pacific University
• Home Page (http://www.pdx.edu/) --- Portland State University
• Home Page (http://www.pcc.edu/) --- Portland Community College
• Home Page (http://web.reed.edu/) --- Reed College
• Home Page (http://www.up.edu/) --- University of Portland
• Home Page (http://www.warnerpacific.edu/) --- Warner Pacific College
• Home Page (http://www.wsu.edu/) --- Washington State University at Vancouver
• Home Page (http://www.wschiro.edu/) --- Western States Chiropractic College

Notable Portlanders

See: List of Portlanders

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 529,121 people residing in the city, organized into 223,737 households and 118,356 families. The population density is 1,521/km² (3,939.2/mi²). There are 237,307 housing units at an average density of 682.1/km² (1,766.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 77.91% White, 6.64% African American, 1.06% Native American, 6.33% Asian, 0.38% Pacific Islander, 3.55% from other races, and 4.15% from two or more races. 6.81% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Portland is becoming increasingly diverse. Recent trends have more young people moving into the city as older, more established white families with children move to the suburbs. Although the overwhelming majority of the city's population is still White, 60% of people moving to Oregon are minorities.

However, though the population of the city is increasing, the total population of children is diminishing, which has put pressure on the public school system to close schools. A recent New York Times story noted that Portland is now educating fewer children than it did in 1925, and the city will have to close the equivalent of three to four elementary schools each year for the next decade.

Portland's public school system has remained rather segregated. Three of its high schools (Cleveland, Lincoln and Wilson) are over 80% white, while three other high schools (Jefferson, Marshall and Roosevelt) are over 70% non-white. The remaining four schools are more ethnically balanced.

Out of 223,737 households, 24.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.1% are married couples living together, 10.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 47.1% are non-families. 34.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.3 and the average family size is 3.

In the city the population is spread out with 21.1% under the age of 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 34.7% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 11.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 97.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 95.9 males. Portland is very lesbian friendly.

The median income for a household in the city is $40,146, and the median income for a family is $50,271. Males have a reported median income of $35,279 versus $29,344 reported for females. The per capita income for the city is $22,643. 13.1% of the population and 8.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 15.7% of those under the age of 18 and 10.4% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line. Oregon has a 9% income tax which tends to suppress accurate reporting. Figures delineating the income levels based on race are not available at this time.

Portland in popular culture

Portland has been the setting or background for books, films, and music, including the following:

Books

• Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk

• Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

• The Clan of the Cave Bear series by Jean M. Auel

• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and other children's books by Beverly Cleary

• The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

Films

Music

Sister cities

Portland has the following sister cities:

Education

Riverdale School District

• Riverdale High School

Portland Public School District

• Lincoln High School

Independent schools

The Catlin Gabel School is a high school

See also

External links

Maps

• Portland Maps (http://www.portlandmaps.com/), a geographic information system site by the City of Portland

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Official and non-profit websites

• Multnomah County Library (http://www.multcolib.org/)
• City of Portland (http://www.portlandonline.com/)
• Portland Oregon Visitors Association (http://www.pova.com/)
• Oregon Tourism Commission's Portland entry (http://www.traveloregon.com/regions/portland.html)
• Portland Police Bureau (http://www.portlandpolicebureau.com/)

News coverage

• OregonLive's website (http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/) for The Oregonian (run by a private subsidiary of the paper's owner, Advance Publications)
• Portland Tribune (http://www.portlandtribune.com/) - semi-weekly local newspaper
• Willamette Week: Willamette Week (http://www.wweek.com/), a weekly mainstream-alternative newspaper
• Portland Mercury (http://www.portlandmercury.com/) - another local weekly
• Portland Indymedia (http://portland.indymedia.org/) - Portland affiliate of Indymedia (http://www.indymedia.org/)
• News4Neighbors.net (http://www.news4neighbors.net/) - a Portland focused, user submitted, news site with a focus on truly local stories and events.

Portland-related wikis

• WikiWikiWeb (WardsWiki) (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors), the Portland Pattern Repository
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Commercial online guides

• Portland Connected (http://www.portlandconnected.com) - Community Information Portal
• Welcome to Portland (http://www.el.com/to/portland/) - Essentix's Guide to Portland
• Portland Communique (http://communique.portland.or.us/), a weblog on local issues

Portland-related personal websites

• Dirt Cheap Guide to Portland (http://web.pdx.edu/~nac/pdxdirtcheap/), a website by a Portland State University student
• Portland Ground - Logging the Photons of Urban Oregon (http://www.portlandground.com), a photographic guide to its neighborhoods

References

• Stewart Holbrook, The Far Corner. Comstock Editions ISBN 0-89174-043-0 (1952).
• E. Kimbark MacColl, The Shaping of a City: Business and Politics in Portland, Oregon 1885 to 1915. Portland: Georgian Press, 1976.
• E. Kimbark MacColl, The Growth of a City: Power and Politics in Portland, Oregon 1915 to 1950. Portland: Georgian Press, 1979. ISBN 0960340815

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