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An Occupied Anniversary: Public Space One Year Later
September 20th recently brought the first year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protests in Zucotti Park, New York City. This time last year brought the Occupy movement to Portland’s doorstep in the form of a massive march through downtown, numbering over 10,000 strong, and filling Pioneer Courthouse Square before ending at Chapman and Lownsdale … Continue reading
Accelerated Blogging
Things have been quiet here at THINK.urban, as we enjoy summer, vacations, Katrina plans for her wedding, and we continue work on the fun tasks of getting our application for non-profit status, recruiting our advisory board and all that entails. We have also taken some fun and informative summer trips, so stay tuned for highlights … Continue reading
GOOD Ideas for Portland: Cycling Infrastructure
THINK.urban, recently completed the presentation of our various concepts for GOOD Ideas for Cities Portland. The team was one of six, which included Wieden+Kennedy, Ziba, Sincerely Interested, OMFGco, and ADXPortland, all tackling tough ideas. The THINK.urban concepts were developed alongside working alongside our urban leader, BikePortland.org founder Jonathan Maus, who presented the challenge: “Now it’s … Continue reading
GOOD Ideas for Cities event a blast!
We’ve been busy at work on the submittal for the GOOD Ideas for cities proposal for bike infrastructure. The event was a great success – and the conversation for new bike concepts in Portland and beyond, mixed with some luck and political will, has the potential to elevate the conversation and adopt some new infrastructure … Continue reading
Time to Think
idea. A research based non-profit that connects academic research to urban design practice through a number of means, including expertise, scholarship, interventions, publications, and consultation with professionals. potential activities Update and re-evaluate seminal urban research (jacobs, whyte, lynch – the list is endless) Keep the pulse of current research/scholarship in key areas Produce publications, web/print/scholarly … Continue reading
