Sandy River to Springwater Multimodal Corridor Feasibility Study
| dc.contributor.author | Xian Chen, Leona | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ribe, Rob | |
| dc.contributor.author | Eischeid, Mark | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-27T18:17:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-07-27T18:17:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description | 113 pages ; illustrations | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The City of Gresham, Metro, Multnomah County and the City of Troutdale collaborated with the U.O. Sustainable Cities Initiative in executing a trail planning and feasibility study reported here. Students of landscape architecture conducted the study. It investigated the problem of “closing Portland’s 40- mile Loop” in its biggest gap along its eastern edge through Gresham and Troutdale. The “40-mile loop” was originally proposed by John Charles Olmstead in 1903. It intended to link Portland’s open spaces and greenways to create a public accessible trail system. That loop has grown to a much more extensive contemporary trail system and the eastern gap is arguably the most challenging part of today’s 40-mile Loop system to complete. Unlike most of the rest of the system, there is no existing right-of-way or river or other landscape corridor to follow. A new trail here must traverse the suburban landscape though parks, along roads, along unused rights-of-way, near creeks, or along the edge of private properties. This report summarizes the planning and urban design processes the students undertook, and the proposed solutions for creating a path from the Sandy River waterfront in Troutdale to the Springwater Trail though southeast Gresham.The class first did regional studies of many potential trail links and their good and bad impacts as candidates to assemble into alternative trail alignments. Proposed better alternative trail alignments were then mapped. The class then developed more detailed designs for segments of alignments selected by city and Metro planners. 7 The project began with field studies of many existing trails in the Portland region and a combination of field and GIS analysis of the study areas. During the field trips that visited trails, students recorded trails’ layout and construction, site furnishings, trail experience, access, and context. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/22542 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Trails | en_US |
| dc.subject | Greenways | en_US |
| dc.subject | Land use planning | en_US |
| dc.title | Sandy River to Springwater Multimodal Corridor Feasibility Study | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |