Why is Portland so hot?
The media is obsessed with Portland. Why? The city’s own Willamette Week is on it:
Yeah, we know Portland’s hot shit. But we wanted to prove it to the world. So we did a search of all things Portland on LexisNexis, a really powerful search engine that looks for content from newspapers, magazines, and anything news-related. Our intuition was correct—Portland is in the news a hell of a lot. In fact, when we tried to search for how many times “Portland, Oregon” appeared in the news over the past year, we broke LexisNexis (well we didn’t exactly break it, it just stopped working due to information overload). But we were able to think up a few things Portland may be known for and find out how many times those words have shown up in the news in conjunction with Portland since September 2006…(hint: beer, sustainable, and gays top the list).
Add bicycles to that list: today the New York Times’ obsession with the city manifested itself as a story about Portland’s bicycle culture.
Photograph by samgrover.
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