Murder & Mayhem in Portland, Oregon

 
Murder & Mayhem in Portland, Oregon
Free Download JD Chandler, "Murder & Mayhem in Portland, Oregon"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1609499255, 1540208087 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 5.1 mb
The headlines shook Portland, Oregon. The brutal Ardenwald axe murders. The retribution killings by Chinatown tongs. The fiendish acts of the Dark Strangler. In this compelling account, author JD Chandler chronicles the coverups, the false confessions, the miscarriages of justice and the investigative twists and turns of Portland's infamous crimes while providing valuable historical perspective. From the untimely end of the Black Mackintosh Bandit to the convoluted hunt for the Milwaukie Monster, join Chandler as he unveils the shadowy heart of the city, acknowledges the officers who sought justice and remembers the individuals whose lives were claimed by violence.


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Planning the Portland Urban Growth Boundary The Struggle to Transform Trend City

 
Planning the Portland Urban Growth Boundary The Struggle to Transform Trend City
Free Download Sy Adler, "Planning the Portland Urban Growth Boundary: The Struggle to Transform Trend City"
English | ISBN: 087071211X | 2022 | 272 pages | EPUB | 975 KB
In this companion volume to his 2012 book Oregon Plans: The Making of an Unquiet Land-Use Revolution, Sy Adler offers readers a deep analysis of planning Portland's Urban Growth Boundary. Required by one of Oregon's nineteen statewide planning goals, a boundary in the Portland metropolitan area was intended to separate urban land and land that would be urbanized from commercially productive farmland. After adopting the goals, approving the Portland growth boundary in 1979 was the most significant decision the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission has ever made, and, more broadly, is a significant milestone in American land-use planning.


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