[lit-ideas] Re: Car culture

  • From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:05:19 -0700

> Come on up here, Carol, and we'll tour the Port of Portland.

ck: Oops.Major omission on my part. I'm sure there are others. Last I heard 
and saw, Portland had a pretty good public transportation system, too.

Carol

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Paul" <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 12:01 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Car culture


> Carol Kirschenbaum wrote:
>
>> ck: This should be filed with Mike & Erin's dubious wedding announcement. 
>> American cities, along with their, suburbs are transforming into small 
>> urban clusters. In all but a few major US cities with large buildings in 
>> an older "downtown," the concept of 'downtown revitalization' (70s, 80s) 
>> reeks of misplaced nostalgia. San Francisco and Seattle are the only two 
>> cities on the left coast that were developed around a core port, like 
>> most Eastern cities.
>
>
> 'Well, down along the river just a-sittin' on a rock
> I'm a-lookin' at the boats in the Bonneville lock.
> Gate swings open, the boat sails in,
> Toot that whistle, she's gone again.
> Gasoline goin' up. Wheat comin' down.'
>
> (Woodie Guthrie, 'Talking Columbia Blues')
>
> Actually, the locks at Bonneville are upstream from Portland, and the 
> Toyotas and so on stop here. The wheat does come down though. Portland is 
> the largest grain exporting port in the US.
>
> Reed began with a bequest from Simeon Reed, who made his fortune in 
> shipping. No relation to John Reed, also a Portland boy.
>
> Robert Paul
> The Reed Institute
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