This video highlights some of Portland's recent transportation, heritage preservation, green building and urban design initiatives. These images were taken in February/March, 2009 by CUI staff. The accompanying article below was published in last year's Ontario Planning Journal and was used as a case study for some of the Institute's recent Value Planning initatives. The article by Iain Myrans, a Senior Planner with the Canadian Urban Institute, was published last year in the Ontario Planning Journal (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2009). We have included it in this post to compliment the the above video.

What is Value Planning? 

Value Planning is an emerging approach to investment and policy planning designed to help governments identify priorities that will have the most substantive benefits to citizens. Through its three distinct but related stages, Value Planning helps governments of all levels to: