Sustainable Development And community engagement
Portland Online resources
Portland Praises. Want to keep track of People praising Portland, then check out this section of the Portland Development Commission site (Portland ranked 4th best city to have a baby in)
Demolished Buildings in Portland. Did you ever wonder what used to be there then you might want to go to Platial, the People’s atlas where there is an inventory (not complete) of demolished buildings in Portland.
Local Video Documentation. Amateur Video. Local amateur videos of Portland (check out Sandy Blvd. one)
Youtube. Or you can find other video documents on global sites like Youtube. For example, video of Portland Iraq war protests which resulted in court case.
Portland Stories, a variety of multi media stories about Portland
Portland Pattern Repository. And in case you didn’t know it the man who invented wiki software, and has established the Portland Pattern Repository lives in Beaverton
Portland history timeline, Auditor’s office
City Club Forums. The City Club www site. More and more online information.
Oregon Notables, Oregon Blue Book. (Raises interesting questions regarding who is notable. Who decides? They do have way for anyone to suggest a notable.)
Historical Photos, online through again Oregon Blue Book, example: Tad Johnson selling popcorn.
PDXhistory, webmaster, Mark Moore. Good photos and postcards
Genealogy and the men of Portland. Another History of Portland and access to genealogy information. Including a list of “men.” Again the assumed “notables” of Portland.
Radio in Portland. If you want to know all about Radio in Portland
Realty Boosterism. Your basic promotional real estate sales welcome wagon Portland pages. Or: Real Estate Trends
http://repdx.com/category/livability/
Government Online
City of Portland staff directory
Bridges of Portland. Anything you want to know about Portland Bridges
Neighborhood Additions. Ever want a list of all the additions in Portland, well look no further:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ormultno/Directories/1874/additions.htm
Online History. Of course the Oregon History Center is a wealth of information, more and more online. Check out the Oregon History Project, and just for example, “a night in china town.”
What’s Happening. What is happening in Portland according to the Oregonian,
Or you can go the dirt cheap way
And Portland’s site on the national Citysearch:
Oregon Originals Instead of notables the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission has cataloged Oregon originals
The Oregon Canon, or 100 Books of Oregon. And the State library has made a list of “the 100 Oregon books.”
COOL--Multnomah County database of Portland area organizations.
The Peoples news. If the standard news doesn’t “really” tell you what is going on in Portland then you can try sites like:
Wikipedia. These days there are different wikis, for example, wikitravel, there you can get travel information about Portland: The General Wiki Portland Page
More than Wikipedia. And if the Wikipedia entries for Portland isn’t enough information for you then you can try the Free dictionary:
And Still More. InfoPlease. An almanac, encyclopedia, atlas and dictionary of undisclosed origins with advertising. You can find out this way about the Portland man who tried to start a religion based on Nirvana’s Curt Cobain The Portland citations:
History of Portland Oregon Neighborhoods, League of Women Voters
Troubled Waters in Ecotopia, Environmental racism, Ellen Stroud. Different perspective on Portland’s environmental policies
Are People moving to Oregon? United Van Line study of u-haul rentals
Report on Charitable Giving in Oregon
Historic Land Records of Oregon
Useful Site about Portland Architecture
Want to see what your fellow Oregonians believe?
Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission, commemorating the well known and not so well known literary originals
Selected Books
The Portland Edge—including chapter by Steven Reed Johnson
The Radical Middle Class in Portland, Robert D. Johnson. Robert grew up in outer southeast Portland, this like Kim McColl’s work provides a useful supplement to usual histories of Portland.
Shot in the Heart, Gary Gilmore. No better way of understanding the soul of outer southeast Portland
Carl Abbott. Essential to understanding what makes Portland tick, including Greater Portland
The Portland Red Guide, Michael Monk. A fun guide to radical Portland.
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Chuck Palahnuik
