Category: Subjects
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Talent & Prosperity
Talent drives city success: The biggest single factor explaining urban economic success is human capital.
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Urban Form & Transportation
Density, land use patterns and the transportation system interact to determine how well cities fulfill their fundamental task of bringing people together.
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Questioning Congestion Costs
It’s frequently claimed that traffic congestion imposes high and rising costs on the economy. But is that true?
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Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Generating new ideas and creating new businesses drives city economies and national economic growth.
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Economic Opportunity
A key measure of economic success has to be whether we provide widely shared opportunities for economic advancement.
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Placemaking & the Consumer City
The quality of life in cities is an essential ingredient and contributor to economic prosperity.
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Housing Markets
The creation and allocation of living space within a metropolitan area shapes our well-being and the regional economy.
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Metro Economics
Metropolitan areas are the fundamental organizational units of our global, knowledge-based economy.
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Distinctiveness
Every city has its own unique character and strengths which shape its economic opportunities.
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Widening the I-5 Rose Quarter Freeway
Should Portland spend $800 million to widen the I-5 Rose Quarter Freeway?
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Portland
Portland is our home and a local laboratory for many interesting developments in urban living.