Clinton and 34th Neighborhood Food Store
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Posted: September 01, 2006
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Urbanists, new and old, take note. This food store is situated on a corner, mingled with single family dwellings, in the middle of a neighborhood which was built out between 1900 and 1920. There was no assumption that every household would have a car, and so a neighborhood corner grocery was an important amenity. The older neighborhoods of Portland, built before 1945, have many of these structures, still serving their original purpose.
This is what a walking neighborhood looked like, and in the world of the future, after the oil begins to run out, it is neighborhoods like these that will be worth living in.
Urbanists, new and old, take note. This food store is situated on a corner, mingled with single family dwellings, in the middle of a neighborhood which was built out between 1900 and 1920. There was no assumption that every household would have a car, and so a neighborhood corner grocery was an important amenity. The older neighborhoods of Portland, built before 1945, have many of these structures, still serving their original purpose.
This is what a walking neighborhood looked like, and in the world of the future, after the oil begins to run out, it is neighborhoods like these that will be worth living in.
