PLACENOTES Portland – a new way of experiencing Portland’s special places

The Architecture Foundation of Oregon and The Charles Moore Foundation are launching a new way to enjoy what is special and unique about Portland. PLACENOTES Portland is the tenth in the Moore Foundation’s PLACENOTES series of unique travel guides, and the first on the West Coast. Based in Austin, Texas, the non-profit Charles Moore Foundation is dedicated to teaching people about the value of good places. The foundation began publishing its unique travel guide, PLACENOTES, in 2006, as a way to help cities tell their “story” to a national audience.

Packaged in a magnetic-closured box, PLACENOTES consists of about fifty cards, each capturing a unique and special place in a single photo. On the reverse is an informative and poetic description with simple iconography detailing everything needed to know about visiting. For touring, it is easy to select half a dozen cards for a day’s outing, slip them into one’s pocket and be off with no heavy books to weigh down the journey. Available at the website below for $22.95.