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Welcome to the Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies. The Institute was created to better connect the university to issues of concern to communities in the six-county Portland-Vancouver Metropolitan Area, and to bring new attention to key issues of metropolitan significance.

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    Winter 2012 Metroscape is Here

    The Institute's flagship publication, Metroscape magazine, is now published online. You can view the entire issue by clicking here. If you would like to print or download individual articles, click here. We now offer the magazine as a downloadable e-pub for your digital reader--download it by clicking here.

    This issue features river crossings, climate change, an atlas of aging, and sausage!

     

     

    New Asset Mapping Project Report

    

    PDX Streetverve:  The Summer 2011 Senior Capstone asset mapping class collected high quality micro-level quantitative and qualitative data about selected Portland neighborhoods.  This pilot project also tested using GIS, internet-based and mobile/Smart Phone applications as tools to collect, analyze, and disseminate data. Buildings and lots in the study areas (Division Street, Lents, Old Town/Pearl, and St. Johns) were photographed and documented to test the ability to map and analyze this micro-level data using GIS. Students also documented the “streetscape” – what they felt was interesting or unique about the neighborhood – using digital media to provide details and depth about a place that would normally be missed using other methodologies. Their report is now available onlnine at: http://www.pdx.edu/ims/asset-mapping.

     

    Measuring Results, Inspiring Action

    Greater Portland Pulse

    Greater Portland Pulse (GPP), formerly known as Greater Portland-Vancouver Indicators (GPVI), is a growing partnership that uses both data and dialogue to encourage coordinated action for better results across the region. Visit the project website at portlandppulse.org.

     

     

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    Mapping Educational Attainment in the Metro Area

    The Metropolitan Knowledge Network illustrates how local tracts with the highest educational attainment — where upward of 75 percent of residents age 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree or higher — were exclusively on Portland’s west side, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data.

     

     

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    IMS joins the National Neighborhood Indicators Project!

    The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) is a collaborative effort by the Urban Institute and local partners to further the development and use of neighborhood information systems in local policymaking and community building. In recent years all NNIP partners have built advanced information systems with integrated and recurrently updated information on neighborhood conditions in their cities. Creation of this capacity, which did not exist in any U.S. city a decade ago, represents an important technical and institutional breakthrough. The Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies is proud to be the newest partner in the project, and we hope that this will open new avenues for expanding our work for the Regional Equity Atlas, neighborhood indicators, and Regional indicators projects.