Published In
Metroscape
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2013
Subjects
Land use -- Oregon -- Portland Metropolitan Area, Urban agriculture -- Oregon --Portland, Sustainable development, Agricultural conservation
Abstract
The celebration of the 40th anniversary of Senate Bill 100 provides us with an excellent opportunity to reflect on metropolitan Portland’s agricultural landscape. The landmark legislation passed in 1973 has helped to protect countless acres of the region’s precious agricultural soils—some of the richest known in the world—from development. Perhaps most importantly, however, the legislation has helped to preserve the important bond between the region’s urban areas and their hinterland, and to secure the region’s local food system. A renewed interest in growing food in one’s own backyard, however, has shown in recent years that urban dwellers need not rely only on the surrounding countryside for locally grown produce. As this edition of the Periodic Atlas will show, food production today occurs not only outside the urban growth boundary, as it has for the last few decades, but within it as well—and in some cases, in the very heart of the city. Through this series of maps, we attempt to paint a picture of food production in Portland and the surrounding region in broad brushstrokes. The maps are by no means exhaustive, but rather hint at the variety of food production taking place.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/12300
Recommended Citation
Nathan McClintock, Jeremy Young, Jacinto Santos, Taren Evans, and Mike Simpson, "The Landscape of Food Production," Metroscape, Summer 2013. Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies, Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies & Planning, Portland State University
Description
Originally appeared in the Summer 2013 edition of Metroscape®, published by the Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies, Portland State University.
Forms part of the Metroscape series "Periodic Atlas of the Metroscape."