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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/geog_fac Part of the Physical and Environmental Geography Commons, and the Urban Studies Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Citation Details Abbott, C. (1987). "The Everyday City: Portland's Changing Neighborhoods" in Larry W. Price (Ed.), Portland's Changing Landscape (pp. 69-85). This Article is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible:
[email protected]. The Everyday City: ;Portland's Changing Neighborhoods 69 Chapter 5 The Everyday City: Portland's Changing Neighborhoods Carl Abbott Department of Urban Studies and Planning Portland State University Americans like to keep tabs on the typical. Giant corporations search for average cities in which to run market tests for new brands of crunchos and fizzits. The targets tend to run to com fortable communities like Rochester, N.Y., Columbus, Ohio, or Des Moines, Iowa. Political commentators also feel the impulse to characterize typical Ameri cans. When political pundits Richard Outer Scammon and Ben Wattenberg a few Southeast years back pronounced that the average voter was a 40-year-old housewife liv ing in the suburbs of Dayton, Ohio, they were indulging in the national habit of carefully defining the middle Figure 5.1 Portland's residential districts American.