Civic Story-Link
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Description
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Date
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Reconstruction of Civic Life in Portland WW II to 2000
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Summary of the transformation of civic life in Portland between World War II and 2000
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2003
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Civic Profile, 1950--1970
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Description of the organizations and types of activities that made up Portland's civic life between World War II and the late 1960s. What I refer to as traditional civic life
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2003
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Civic Profile, 1970--1980
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Description of the organizations and types of activities that made up Portland's civic life between the late 1960s and 1970s. What I refer to as the civic reconstruction period.
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2003
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Civic Profile, 1980--1990
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Description of the organizations and types of activities that made up Portland's civic life between the late 1970s and 1980s. What I refer to as the Populist Pluralism period.
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2003
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Civic Profile, 1990--2000
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Description of the organizations and types of activities that made up Portland's civic life between the late 1980s and 2000. The primary condition of this period is the reach for a new consensus through civic innovations.
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2003
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Bicycle Movement
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Describes the role bicycle advocates since the early 1970s have had on developing Portland's alternative transportation policy
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2003
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Albina Neighborhood
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A history and analysis of the reconstruction of civic organizations and practices in this northeast area of Portland, an area with a high level of urban renewal and displacement.
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2003
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Johnson Creek Watershed
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A history and analysis of the movement to save this urban watershed in southeast Portland.
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2003
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Neighborhood Democracy
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A history of neighborhood activism in Portland, including the origins of the Office of Neighborhood Involvement.
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2003
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Brief History Housing and Community Development
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A brief history of citizen activism around housing and community development issues since World War II
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2003
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Origins of Cafe Society in Portland
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Cafes were important places for disenfranchised young people to meet in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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2003
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Evolution of Women's Organizations
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In the 1950s there were hundreds of women's clubs, in effect providing primary social services. But, that all changed in the 1970s and 1980s
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2003
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Vocations for Social Change and CETA in the 1970s
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Veterans of the social movements of the 1960s struggled to earn a living and change the world. CETA was one of the key bridge employers of the period.
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2003
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The Environmental Movement in Portland
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Today there are 350 enviornmental organizations in the Portland area. In 1960 there were 15, and those were mostly Industrial-sponsored.
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2003
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From Juvenile Delinquents to Hippies
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Portland was used to juvenile delignquents, rebels without causes, but then in the late 1960s rebels with causes appeared.
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2003
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Citizen's Role in Planning
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The reputation of Portland as a well-planned city is due in much part to everyday citizens
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2003
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Mt. Hood Freeway and other Freeway Issues
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There were many many freeways planned for Portland and if the civic elite had there way we would today be encircled by them.
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2003
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Citizen's Role in Downtown Planning
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The downtown business leaders had a different vision for downtown then the citizens
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2003
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New Organizational Forms in the 1970s
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Boomers denied entry into traditional civic groups created their own. Some have passed away, others still exist. Desciptions of the Learning Community, Outside In, KBOO, Saturday Market, and others.
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2003
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Roots of Portland's Sustainability Movement
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Interest in sustainability in Portland didn't happen overnight. Grassroots groups back in the early 1970s brough sustainability issues to the forefront.
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2003
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