Metropolitics

Reflections on Four Years of Housing-Justice Support Work with Mapping Action Collective

Sachi Arakawa & Tim Hitchins — 2021-04-13T05:00:00Z

Mapping Action Collective, based in Portland, Oregon, leverages mapping and data to support housing-justice organizing, using GIS to dismantle systems of oppression, and grounding its work in the needs of the communities and movements with which it works.
---- Series: Contemporary Housing Struggles: Crises, Activism, and Critical Research As the interwoven US crises of homelessness, evictions, displacement, and housing instability reach catastrophic levels, students, scholars, practitioners,

- From the Field / housing, housing justice, mapping, cartography, data, community organizing, Portland (Oregon), Oregon, United States, homelessness, evictions

Saving Ivy Island: A Civil War in North Portland

Lauren Everett — 2019-01-15T08:13:58Z

Lauren Everett examines two different approaches by community activists confronting change in a tight-knit Portland neighborhood, and the struggle that ensued. She considers how official decision-making processes may or may not include mechanisms for considering community input, and the challenges of working with a community plan that leaves room for interpretation.
The community plan for the neighborhood of St Johns in the north of Portland, Oregon, prioritizes both neighborhood

- From the Field / participation, public space, United States, neighborhood, consultation, community, Portland (Oregon), neighborhood preservation

“Portlandia” in Portland: Curated Life in the Utopian City

Jeff London — 2015-04-07T04:50:00Z

Popular among educated creatives, hipsters, foodies, and other crunchy urbanites, the US television show Portlandia revels in pointing out the absurdity of earnest living and lifestyles in the postindustrial city through the lives of Portland's quirky characters. In this review essay, Jeff London, who has done research on the city, discusses how the series depicts tensions between the “ideal” and “real” versions of life in Portland.
Spoiler alert: this article reveals hidden-in-plain-sight

- Essays / gentrification, utopia, United States, TV series, Portland (Oregon)