Papers and Presentations

Coming soon.

Wild in the City, Exploring The Intertwine Launched!

Wild in the City, Exploring The Intertwine has launched!

Go to Audubon Society of Portland website

Ross Island Vision Team: Envisioning Ross Island

The Institute has produced, with its partners at the Willamette Riverkeeper, Audubon Society of Portland, Greenworks landscape architecture, architects, and landscape architects a plan for Ross Island, Envisioning Ross Island (.pdf)

Bi-State Trail Plan

Unveiled The long awaited Bi-State Trail Plan was released at a meeting of The Intertwine Alliance on April 9th in downtown Vancouver, Washington.

Oregon Public Broadcasting features Portland Memorial Mausoleum mural project

On April 15th OPB's Art Beat Program ran a 10 minute special feature on the 50,000 square foot wetland mural that the Urban Greenspaces Institute collaborated with ArtFX Murals to produce on the Portland Memorial Mausoleum overlooking 160-acre Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge. Click here to view OPBs video.

Metro Urban and Rural Reserves planning map

A coalition of nonprofit organizations representing the region's agricultural industry, nurseries, and conservation organizations including the Urban Greenspaces Institute released a consensus map that outlines areas this unique coalition considers appropriate for consideration as future Urban Reserves and areas

The belief that the city is an entity apart from nature and even antithetical to it has dominated the way in which the city is perceived and continues to affect how it is built. The city, the suburbs, and the countryside must be viewed as a single, evolving system within nature.

~ Anne Whiston Spirn, The Granite Garden, Urban Nature and Human Design, 1984

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