Transportation
Land Use/Urban Form
Housing
Environment/Climate
Civic Commons
Opportunity/Equity
Economic Development
Talent/Human Capital
Innovation/Entrepreurship
Miscellaneous
- Affordability
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Bikes
- Biotech
- Carmaggedon
- City Observatory
- civic
- Civic commons
- Climate
- clusters
- Concentrated poverty
- Congestion
- Congestoin
- Consumption
- Conventions
- Cost Overruns
- Covid
- Crime
- Data and Tools
- Detroit
- Development Strategies
- Distinctiveness
- Economic development
- Economic Opportunity
- Entrepreneurship
- Environment
- Equity
- Federal Policy
- Food
- Food deserts
- Freeway Fighting
- Freight
- Gentrification
- Groceries
- Homeownership
- Housing
- Housing Affordability
- Housing Finance
- Housing Prices
- Housing Trends
- Human capital
- Inclusionary Zoning
- Induced Travel
- Inequality
- Innovation
- Insurance
- Integration
- Interstate Bridge Project
- Interstate Bridge Replacement
- Kids in Cities
- Land use
- Localism
- Metro Economics
- Missing Middle
- Model
- Models
- Mortgage
- Neighborhood Change
- ODOT
- Opportunity
- Orwell
- Parking
- Placemaking
- Portland
- Pricing
- pushback
- Race
- Ride Hailing
- Ride Hailing
- Rose Quarter
- Safety
- Segregation
- Strategies
- Strategy
- Talent
- Talent and Prosperity
- Tranport Equity
- Transport Equity
- Transport Finance
- Transportation
- Transportation Equity
- Transportation Finance
- Travel Trends
- Trends
- Urban Form
- Walkability
- Young and Restless
ODOT’s claim that Oregon spends less on roads than neighboring states was a key talking point in trying to sell a higher transportation tax in the 2025 Legislature Based on...
What City Observatory Did This Week Repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. The I-5 Rose Quarter project is over budget at $2.1 billion, just lost more than $400...
Testimony to the Oregon Transportation Commission July 24, 20225 Joe Cortright City Observatory Editor’s note: On July 24, 2025, the Oregon Transportation Commission voted to continue work on the I-5...
The Oregon Department of Transportation finds itself in serious financial trouble, aggravated by an increasing dependence on borrowing. In the last two fiscal years, the agency has added about $700...
What City Observatory Did This Week Oregon’s transportation agency has driven itself into a fiscal brick wall of its own making. After the Legislature rejected a $14 billion transportation package,...
ODOT is still failing to come to grips with the reality that it doesn’t have the funds to proceed with bloated megaprojects. ODOT’s financial problems stem largely from a handful...