Scenarios about 'urban growth boundaries'
Urban growth boundaries are designated limits established by governments to control urban sprawl by restricting development beyond certain geographic areas. These planning tools aim to concentrate development within existing urban areas, preserve surrounding agricultural land and natural spaces, and encourage more efficient infrastructure use. In alternate history scenarios, different approaches to urban growth boundaries can dramatically alter settlement patterns, environmental outcomes, and the economic development of regions.
What If Oregon Implemented Different Environmental Policies?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Oregon pursued a drastically different environmental policy approach in the 1960s-70s, potentially reshaping the American conservation movement and the state's development.