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Urban Sustainability

K-12 partnerships pave pathways to college

June 12, 2013 - 4:32pm — Fletcher Beaudoin
Over the past several years, the Institute for Sustainable Solutions (ISS) has been connecting PSU’s students, faculty, and expertise with K-12 schools and helping educate young students about sustainability issues. This is an effort to build more equitable and inclusive pathways to college, and to prepare more students with the background they need to begin tackling these issues.

FRINQs in the EcoDistricts: Gateway

June 10, 2013 - 1:08pm — Christina Williams
Chet Orloff’s FRINQ class, which has studied different aspects of Portland’s history and infrastructure over the course of the year, focused its attention during spring term on the Growing Gateway EcoDistrict in northeast Portland.

PSU design students take on SoMa EcoDistrict brand

May 29, 2013 - 12:10pm — Chris North

Creating an attachment to a place can be a beautiful challenge especially when you don’t know what makes that place special. 

Vietnam and PSU: Tapping popular culture to talk climate change

April 25, 2013 - 11:34am — Christina Williams
In Vietnam, popular culture—including songs, stories, and poster art—has long been used to unite and mobilize the general public during their centuries-long struggles for national independence. The same tradition should be tapped to help the country face the challenges posed by climate change, says Khanh Pham, a Vietnamese-American Ph.D. student in Portland State University’s urban studies program

Serious gaming: adapting to urban climate challenges

April 25, 2013 - 10:22am — Laura Gleim
Portland State students and city officials from the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability gathered last week at PSU’s Institute for Sustainable Solutions to play a board game called "Broken Cities," which simulates the economic and environmental consequences of different types of urban development. The game plays like a combination of Monopoly and Sim City, but with an added twist of climate science.

Developing inclusive cities: Lessons from Sweden

April 2, 2013 - 9:28am — Jacklyn Kohon
This past fall, with the help of an Institute for Sustainable Solutions travel award, I attended the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) World Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Sustainability through a designer’s lens

November 27, 2012 - 4:50pm — Chris North
PSU graphic design students envision how their knowledge can serve SoMa EcoDistrict—and the city.

Redefining the American Dream

October 30, 2012 - 12:14pm — Grant Lynn Neely
Hailed by Mayor Sam Adams as the largest gathering in the western hemisphere focused on neighborhood-scale sustainability, last week’s EcoDistricts Summit at Portland State University was a milestone in the field of urban innovation.

Placemaking at Portland State

July 20, 2012 - 11:06am — Ridhi DCruz
On May 26, more than 40 PSU students, faculty, alumni, and community members came together for the 2012 PSU Village Building Convergence (VBC).

Rebuilding New Orleans: An urban planning challenge

May 31, 2012 - 11:13am — Lisa K Bates
Nearly seven years since Katrina hit, the recovery of the Gulf Coast is still one of our greatest urban planning challenges today.

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