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Book The Mount Pisgah Arboretum Master Plan

Download or read book The Mount Pisgah Arboretum Master Plan written by Mount Pisgah Arboretum (Eugene, Or.) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foundation Reporter

Download or read book Foundation Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Planning Paradise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter A. Walker
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2011-05-15
  • ISBN : 0816504784
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Planning Paradise written by Peter A. Walker and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sprawl” is one of the ugliest words in the American political lexicon. Virtually no one wants America’s rural landscapes, farmland, and natural areas to be lost to bland, placeless malls, freeways, and subdivisions. Yet few of America’s fast-growing rural areas have effective rules to limit or contain sprawl. Oregon is one of the nation’s most celebrated exceptions. In the early 1970s Oregon established the nation’s first and only comprehensive statewide system of land-use planning and largely succeeded in confining residential and commercial growth to urban areas while preserving the state’s rural farmland, forests, and natural areas. Despite repeated political attacks, the state’s planning system remained essentially politically unscathed for three decades. In the early- and mid-2000s, however, the Oregon public appeared disenchanted, voting repeatedly in favor of statewide ballot initiatives that undermined the ability of the state to regulate growth. One of America’s most celebrated “success stories” in the war against sprawl appeared to crumble, inspiring property rights activists in numerous other western states to launch copycat ballot initiatives against land-use regulation. This is the first book to tell the story of Oregon’s unique land-use planning system from its rise in the early 1970s to its near-death experience in the first decade of the 2000s. Using participant observation and extensive original interviews with key figures on both sides of the state’s land use wars past and present, this book examines the question of how and why a planning system that was once the nation’s most visible and successful example of a comprehensive regulatory approach to preventing runaway sprawl nearly collapsed. Planning Paradise is tough love for Oregon planning. While admiring much of what the state’s planning system has accomplished, Walker and Hurley believe that scholars, professionals, activists, and citizens engaged in the battle against sprawl would be well advised to think long and deeply about the lessons that the recent struggles of one of America’s most celebrated planning systems may hold for the future of land-use planning in Oregon and beyond.

Book The Foundation 1000

Download or read book The Foundation 1000 written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 2906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Foundation Grants Index

Download or read book The Foundation Grants Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Public Garden

Download or read book The Public Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fourth of July Butterfly Counts     Report

Download or read book Fourth of July Butterfly Counts Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The University of Washington Arboretum Bulletin

Download or read book The University of Washington Arboretum Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oregon Forests Report

Download or read book Oregon Forests Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who Gets Grants who Gives Grants

Download or read book Who Gets Grants who Gives Grants written by Ruth Kovacs and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Guide to Funding for the Environment and Animal Welfare

Download or read book National Guide to Funding for the Environment and Animal Welfare written by Foundation Center and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oregon Forests Report  1999

Download or read book Oregon Forests Report 1999 written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Green Afternoons

Download or read book Green Afternoons written by Amy Houchen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Green Afternoons in hand, travelers, gardeners, and plant enthusiasts now have an exciting new guide to more than six dozen gardens throughout western and central Oregon and southwestern Washington. In her tour of the region, Amy Houchen uses the word garden broadly to include not only traditional gardens but also plantings of interest in such places as parks, college campuses, farms, and community gardens. Along with providing detailed descriptions of Oregon's best-known and best-loved gardens, Green Afternoons introduces readers to such unlikely but rewarding spots as an arboretum at a freeway rest area and climbing roses dressing up the cyclone fence around a ballfield. Indexes by plant name and topic allow for ease in locating plant specialties and such features as gardens for the blind and composting exhibits. Also included is information on holding weddings and listings of special events.

Book Willamette River Basin Planning Atlas

Download or read book Willamette River Basin Planning Atlas written by David Hulse and published by . This book was released on 2002-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Willamette River Basin Planning Atlas offers a valuable resource for anyone interested in the region's past, present, and future. Using a variety of color maps, charts, and photographs, the Atlas presents a vast amount of information intended to provide a long-term, large-scale view of changes in human and natural systems within the Basin." "Five chapters provide information on current conditions and historical changes since 1850, focusing in turn on land forms and geology, water resources, plants and animals, land use, and human population." "Next, there is a detailed examination of how the Basin may change between now and 2050 under three alternative scenarios for future land and water use: one assuming a continuation of current land use and management policies, the second assuming a loosening of current policies to allow freer development, and the third assuming greater emphasis on ecosystem protection and restoration." "The final chapter demonstrates how the information and analyses presented in the Atlas can be used to prioritize and design river restoration strategies. Although the focus is on the Willamette River and its floodplain, the book's approach provides a useful model that can be applied to other regions as well." "Intended for general readers and specialists alike, the Atlas provides information to help local citizens, policymakers, and scientists make better decisions about the Willamette River Basin and its future."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book The Northwest Gardeners  Resource Directory

Download or read book The Northwest Gardeners Resource Directory written by Stephanie Feeney and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephanie Feeney has combed the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia to find the fabulous resources that make the area a horticultural paradise. This guide makes it a snap to find over 350 nurseries of all sizes, over 200 mail-order sources for gardening items, over 300 e-mail and Internet Web sites of interest to gardeners, over 200 clubs and organizations, publications, and other sources.

Book Fodor s the Carolinas   Georgia

Download or read book Fodor s the Carolinas Georgia written by Ruth Craig and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses dining, lodging, and sight-seeing in the Carolinas and Georgia