Food trucks and carts in downtown PDX.
Food trucks and carts in downtown PDX. Joshua Rainey Photography/Shutterstock.com

Portland is really freaking out about a massive development that will not only completely change its downtown but remove or relocate a number of beloved food cart lots. This is a classic city soul versus new city showdown. The development will add an astounding 11 new towers to Portland's modest skyline. The development will make the city bigger and increase density in the core. These excellent urban attributes will once again be at odds with notions and feelings of soul. The question Portland and Seattle must solve is how to reconcile density, development, and soul.