Mike Houck
Portland
Mike Houck, Director of the Urban Greenspaces Institute (http://www.urbangreenspaces.org), has worked on local, regional, and national urban park and greenspace issues since 1980 when he founded the Urban Naturalist Program at the Audubon Society of Portland (http://www.audubonportland.org). He is co-founder of The Intertwine Alliance (http://www.theintertwine.org), which is dedicated to creating a world-class park, trail, and natural area system for the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region. The Alliance is also a member of the national Metropolitan Greenspaces Alliance whose members represent Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Cleveland, Milwaukee, San Francisco Bay Area, and Portland metropolitan greenspace initiatives.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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National Park City: What if your city were a National Park City, analogous to what London created? What it would be like? What would it take to accomplish?
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The Beaver, Cottonwoods, and Lucy: Preservation Is Not Enough
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Preserving Urban Nature, No Silver Bullets
Art, Biodiversity, Biophilia, Communities, Conservation, Development, Ecosystem services, Education/Knowledge/Learning, Experiencing Nature, Governance, Landscape, Livability, North America, Participation/Democracy, Planning, Policy, Stewardship, Tools, Wetlands/Rivers/Streams, What is urban nature? -
Urban Wildlife—Celebrating the Commonplace
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Anatomy of a Mural: A Seventy Foot Heron Transforms a Lifeless Wall
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Creative Place-Making—This is The Nature of Graffiti
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Reflections on “Laudato Si, On Care For Our Common Home”
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Birds: Iconic Emissaries of Urban Nature
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Imaging the urban wild: Fourteen photographers and artists show and talk about their work
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Lessons from Britain’s Urban Nature Movement
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The Emerald Necklace: Metropolitan Greenspace Planning in Los Angeles and Beyond
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Collective Impact: A New Model for Regional Open Space Planning
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Many believe that better information on the monetary value of ecosystem services is critical for getting cities to adopt more green infrastructure solutions to issues such as storm water management, heat island, storm surge, etc. True? What are the key knowledge gaps for convincing cities to invest in ecosystems services?
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Size Doesn’t Matter—Really!
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Biodiversity Planning: Finally Getting It Right in the Portland-Vancouver Metro Region
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Nature Nearby
