Ray Delahanty of CityNerd pushes back on doomsday conservative portrayals of Portland, Oregon by taking a bike tour of the city, showing lots of vibrant street life, urban redevelopment, and some great safe streets interventions for people walking, rolling, and biking. It’s important to center accurate information about American cities, rather than propaganda designed to stoke fear and drive a backward agenda.
Doug Trumm is publisher of The Urbanist. An Urbanist writer since 2015, he dreams of pedestrian streets, bus lanes, and a mass-timber building spree to end our housing crisis. He graduated from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington in 2019. He lives in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood and loves to explore the city by foot and by bike.