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is an appropriately named movement within the history of American city development. It celebrates the good things that make cities vibrant, comfortable and healthy places to live, work and play. The movement has made people more aware of what they like about cities and how we can do a better job of planning to achieve much more livable communities. That it came from the urban design part of the profession, which includes architects and landscape architects, is a good message about how working with other related professional groups can greatly enhance the outcomes of city planning (Let鈥檚 keep that thought in mind as we continue this conversation over the next few months).

In the Portland-metropolitan area, the evolution of how our region thinks about planning at the neighborhood and city level as well as at the regional level took a dramatic and transformational turn at the same time New Urbanism was emerging. In the early 1990s, the was under development at Metro 鈥� significantly influenced by new urbanist thinking and the complementary concept known as 鈥渢ransit-oriented development.鈥�

It鈥檚 interesting to note that the 2040 Plan鈥檚 driving concept for how the metro area would develop was actually first proposed by the local urban design community back in 1972 in the Portland Downtown Plan. Subsequent work done as a foundation for the city of Portland鈥檚 1980 Comprehensive Plan carried that approach forward. Affectionately referred to then as 鈥渘odes and noodles鈥� and now more formally as 鈥渃enters and corridors,鈥� this concept is still the region鈥檚 guiding urban development principle. The key idea is to focus growth in distinct transit-served centers and along transit-served corridors in order to hold the tight and minimize expansion at the periphery of the urban area. Over the next few weeks I want to spend some time discussing these ideas further.

Transit Oriented Development – Arlington, Virginia, Washington DC Metro stops