PSU Magazine Winter 1992

~Lin : ~~ I ·.n r-1:-1 1 .,lr /;, _1ur - -::: .:'i...r j I L ........ 1 n, - lfll.--- -- . u - .u ,_-, - ~ . un ,, --" 111 ., {J' ..r ,....., n .--. ~1n ;-L r L :- - r-;1.:-~ n r ' r-1 _r-1 1 : L.. I J ~ n r ~;:T.,/~ -~~ jl~ 11 -,J. 1.:LI ff .::;:___r-ITT-- J I :..Jr I (""1 "HrJry~fi] IR - rn - ~-.:-.:t"-:---~·m-•-......:;$ ... r _,'itt/fli",,...,.. r r - I - ~-rn w. ....... --- ~ , • r-i r=-~~ I ;;: =:..=-.--a - r - - I r ~LLUSTRATION BYCllRISTOPl lER STINE The urban sprawl of Los Angeles may be a coming reality for parts of Oregon unless we plan for the future. By John R. Kirkland Dean Nohad Toulan • Califo rn ia. - sk any regonian "What i your bigge t nightmare?" and the an wer likely would be that this state becom another Southern Los Ange les is synonymou with sprawl. Ir's a place of unfettered growth and two-hour freeway commutes. Ir's a place where ca rs and pavement are as essent ial to life as air-and the air leaves much to be de ·ired. And it's just like O regon will be in a few short yea rs, ays NohaJ Toulan, dean of the School of U rban and Public Affair , unle the rate's govern– ing bodies deve lop a blueprint fo r what they want the tate to look like in the d istant future. Toulan , an internationall y re peered urban planner, presented thi call fo r a broad planning vis ion in a paper titled "Oregon 2100: Urban Form and ettle– ment Patterns," which he pre ·en ted in eptember to the O regon Progres · Board , a governor-appointed group that help mold po licy for the state' future. In it, he shows where we are go ing based on where we have been. What he ees for the future i a rate with more than double its curren t p pulat ion of 2.8 million, all pread ing out from the places where we have already ettl ed, while vast expanses of untouched land to the east- land p u 11