The Effects of Portland's Urban Growth Boundary on Urban Development Patterns and Commuting

By Myung-Jin Jun. 2004

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This research investigates the effects of Portland's urban growth boundary (UGB) on urban development patterns and mobility. Three different methods are adopted for evaluating Portland's UGB: intermetropolitan comparisons; comparisons inside and outside the UGB; and, statistical analyses utilising regression models. Intermetropolitan comparisons do not support the conclusion that Portland's UGB has been effective in slowing down suburbanisation, enhancing infill development and reducing auto use. A significant level of spillover from the counties in Oregon to Clark County of Washington took place during the 1990s, indicating that the UGB diverted population growth into Clark County. Results from the statistical analyses also support the above findings. The UGB dummy variable was not significant during the 1980s and 1990s, indicating that the UGB had little impact on the location of new housing construction during the 1980s and 1990s. Unlike the UGB, the Clark County dummy variable is significant for both models, supporting the spillover effects of the UGB.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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Citations in the corpus

• Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data (2020, background): “Thus, the derived urban center in GHS is smaller than the boundary that is commonly used, which includes most artificial impervious areas and associated elements (e.g. parks, lakes, and infrastructures) within the boundary (Jun 2004).”
• Delineating multi-scenario urban growth boundaries with a CA-based FLUS model and morphological method (2018, background): “In recent decades, UGBs were first adopted widely in the United States (Hepinstallcymerman, Coe, & Hutyra, 2011; Jun, 2004) and then, they were gradually brought into other countries such as China (Han, Lai, Dang, Tan, & Wu, 2009), India (Venkataraman, 2013), Canada (Gordon & Vipond, 2005), Albania ”