In today’s Oregonian, Dylan Rivera reports that professor Bruce Podobnik just completed a study gauging social interaction among residents of urban and suburban areas. In his paper, Podobnik reports that a majority (two of three) of residents at Orenco Station, the award-winning neighborhood touted as an ideal of mass-transit oriented New Urbanism, drive personal automobiles to work. This is slightly less than some other suburbs but hardly the car-free utopia many idealists expect of the development build carefully around the MAX light-rail line. Read more at the Oregonian.