Sustainable Development And community engagement


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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

City of Portland staff directory

           State of Oregon


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.” 


Oregon biographies


What’s Happening.  What is happening in Portland according to the Oregonian,

        Oregon Live

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:

Portland Communique

News4Neighbors

Independent Media Center

Environmental Actions


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


Brief History of Oregon


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