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Jul. 18, 2013 / Gordon Price

Portraitlandia – 4

For Kirk Crippens, Portraitlandia was also an experiment with new equipment. Using a loaned 4×5 camera with an array of…

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Jul. 17, 2013 / Gordon Price

Portraitlandia – 3

From Wired: Kirk Crippens, a photographer from San Francisco, made 45 portraits for his series Portraitlandia. Crippens struggles to name a…

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Jul. 16, 2013 / Gordon Price

Portraitlandia – 2

Kirk Crippens, a photographer from San Francisco, made 45 portraits for his series Portraitlandia. Although Wired presents only 20 of the…

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Jul. 15, 2013 / Gordon Price

This Week: Portraitlandia – 1

From Wired: When Kirk Crippens, a photographer from San Francisco, was granted a month-long artist residency at Newspace Center for…

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Feb. 20, 2013 / Gordon Price

Origins of Post-Motordom: Portland, 1971

“Paradigm shift” is a hackneyed phrase, but if there was a moment in urban history when one happened, it was in the…

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Jan. 18, 2013 / Gordon Price

Article of the Day: “The Myth of Portlandia”

Metroscape interviews Urban Studies professor and author, Carl Abbott, and Theater & Film department chair, Karin Magaldi, both of Portland…

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Dec. 07, 2012 / Gordon Price

Offset Indulgences Update: Portland – 2

A few weeks ago, I gave a lecture in Portland – and gave away a few bucks for some Small…

Nov. 26, 2012 / Gordon Price

Post-Motordom in Portland (and more Motordom in B.C.)

More evidence of the decline in vehicle use: … .the Metro (Portland) travel behavior survey data shows … vehicle miles…

Nov. 21, 2012 / Gordon Price

Vancouver demolishes Portland: A transit comparison

YVR Lutyens, in a comment to the post below, provided a lot of great data that might otherwise be missed…

Aug. 25, 2009 / Gordon Price

Is a jail also a home?

You may have seen, heard or read about the Great Vancouver Versus Seattle Debate, held by the SFU City Program…

Oct. 24, 2006 / Gordon Price

Kids in the city

Now Seattle, like Portland, is wondering whether it’s possible to raise children downtown. The Post-Intelligencer explored the issue in this article:…

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