... My answer to Uli was: This has been a specific dream of mine. Philadelphia recently demolished 20,000 (?) houses in a derelict area that could have easily...
Hi All-- New photo essay on Bicycle Fixation: "The Bicycle in Amsterdam," by Henry Cutler, proprietor of WorksCycles in that city. Beautiful photography by a...
Paving the Way Effort to Make Downtown More Walkable Takes Big Step This Week When the city's Planning Commission released a fiery memorandum in April, under...
AGING OF THE BABY BOOM: A COMMUNITY ‘BLUEPRINT FOR ACTION’ By Neal Peirce What will the aging of the Baby Boom generation mean for America’s communities?...
Mark Fleischmann sent this interesting article to me: In the first stages of its coverage of Mayor Bloomberg's proposal for congestion pricing in midtown...
hope our webmaster will fix that soon in #46 ... too bad, I`m very sorry ! Markus ... From: J.H. Crawford To: carfree_cities@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June...
Hi all German understanding people, the German version of J.H. Crawford`s "Carfree Times" is now available via the website of autofrei leben! e.V. (carfree...
This story was sent to you by: jonathan st.thomas ... MTA to add Rapid bus lines ... Touting the success of several high-efficiency routes, the transit agency...
This from ABC's web site: http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3234523&page=1 Notice that what's actually stressed in the article is the refusal of...
Two blocks away from my house, there is a 5500 sf building on a 25,500 sf lot--a FAR of 0.22. Formerly a Chinese restaurant, the building spent about two years...
Here it comes, just as we feared it would: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/business/29coal.html? hp=&pagewanted=all This is like curing cocaine addiction by...
Hi All, I get Jan Lundberg's Culture Change Newsletter quite regularly but don't often post them here. Today's is more strategic than usual and maybe worth a...
Hi All, Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/ publishes articles from newspapers around the world, most of them leading thinkers on the left, like George...
...Interesting, but we're still not at carfree, just knocking on the door... And we will not be at carfree in North America, until something catastrophic takes...
Interesting, but we're still not at carfree, just knocking on the door. http://www.celsias.com/blog/2007/05/15/designing-cities-for-people/ Designing Cities...
Notwithstanding the wisdom of the "experts," Americans *can* make longer-term decisions that will change their driving habits and fuel-buying patterns. Are...
Hi All, Carfree Times #46 is now on line but not quite in final form (one link is missing). I plan to publish it on Monday, so if you see any bloopers, please...
From the Foster & Partners web site http://www.fosterandpartners.com/News/291/Default.aspx You have to the last paragraph to see that it's carfree. 08/05/2007 ...
This new urbanism bibliography looks exciting to me: http://www.periferia.org/publications/cnubibliography.html Simon Simon Baddeley 208 Democracy Street Ano...
This project to build a Greek village as a campus site sounds promising as a design blue-print for a car free or at least walker friendly urban settlement: ...
George Monbiot, author of _Heat_, said this yesterday in the Guardian: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/01/896/ Published on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 by...
See: http://www.asla.org/land/dirt/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=4305FF61-1422-1874-817C3BBF0C655C14 But Where Will the Baron Live? Florida Development to...
Three news articles today in the mainstream press: 1. http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/832943.html Making strides for HRM Danish urban-planning expert touts...
Last week Centre for an Urban Future in NYC released a report entitled "Staten Island 2020", <http://www.nycfuture.org/images_pdfs/pdfs/StatenIsland2020.pdf>,...
Subject: [carfree_network] Istanbul conference update and welcome Hello everyone, On behalf of World Carfree Network and our hosts, we are happy to invite you...
I'm not sure if I agree totally. The demand for cycle lanes is a bit vague. You haven't defined what you mean by "cycle lane" but I assume Lela means a painted...
