I have been reading through much of www.carfree.com and am a new member to this group. The sight does well at explaining the proposed carfree utopia, but I ...
Eugene voters to decide on opening mall 09/17/01 ALICE TALLMADGE EUGENE -- Eugene voters will decide Tuesday whether to open the last three blocks of the...
This is just to let you know that this is Car Free Day season in many parts of Europe and a few other places as well. Now as you know well a single day without...
I heard this commentary from Peter Jennings yesterday...then it was e-mailed to me. I thought it should be shared & appreciated by all...enjoy ! America: The...
I can always count on my Carfree friends for another point of view! I don't take it as a slap in my face I take as part of my education. I appreciate mostly...
Hi Amanda - thought this might be of interest. I've copied it to American friends - Simon ... From: jonhunt99@... To: perrybarr@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
... =v= I think both of these cities are anomalous in that they have each endured waves of speculation-driven real estate booms that had nothing to do with...
Since people are weighing in here about recent events, I think it's important to inject a cautionary note to balance the self-congratulatory tone of "Stand...
the article (stand proud america) was written in the 1970's, before the us backed coup d'etat in chile and before 1 million people died in iraq (1/2 children)...
I'm hoping through all of this that more people will see the wisdom in having a first-rate rail system as an alternative in the transportation infrastructure. ...
I would like to share with all Americans and all fredom loving people my grief and outrage of yesterday's tragic events. Hillel Schocken [Non-text portions of...
My deep condolences to my American web-friends on this dreadful day. Simon Simon Baddeley 34 Beaudesert Road Handsworth Birmingham B20 3TG United Kingdom ...
x-post We inhabit an adversarial political culture in which debaters in legislative chambers and the courts tilt at each other before a jury. No-one will come ...
http://web.tallahasseedemocrat.com/content/tallahassee/2001/09/08/ local/0908.loc.downtown.htm The City of Tallahassee occasionally hosts "downtown getdown"...
Hi Simon, I think our motivations are all quite different and evolve from our own experience. I would hazard a guess that the Mothers Against Drunk Driving ...
It's interesting - nearly 20 years after deconstruction of texts first caused controversy in Cambridge literary circles - to find with what facility so many...
I presented the case for a carfree neighborhood in Cambridge to the city council. They are people who appreciate human scale in planning, but have not...
Hi All, I have been asked what is a Cyborg City as a concept or theory. My current ongoing research provides the following sketchy vision. Cities of the past...
Thanks Roy. It's funny but only a fortnight earlier I had actually got out my metaphoric tape measure and calculator and worked my way through an Observer...
Hi All, My name is Ian McMaster, I'm a mature postgrad. final year student studying for B.Arch and MA specialising in Urban Design. My area of interest is the...
A large tract of abandoned railyards in Cambridge, Massachusetts is being rezoned as a residential neighborhood. The site couldn't be better located: it's one...
Get the support of other organizations locally, such as a Sierra Club Chapter. Any local smart growth groups? Any other groups that might want to embrace...
As of September the University of Bath UK is banning students from bringing their cars to the university if they live in the town...it will be interesting to...
Travelling to work by train, underground or bus, even if sometimes crowded has always bestowed the benefit of being able to relax with a book, newspaper or...
Most trams seem to have around 75 seats, about the same as a double decker bus. There's lots of room for standing, but wouldn't people rather sit? Instead of...
September 1, 2001 A Down-to-Earth Solution to Airport Gridlock By MICHAEL S. DUKAKIS BOSTON -- Air traffic delays have reached epidemic proportions. With jets...
The September issue of The New Colonist Urban Living ezine is online now at http://www.newcolonist.com. *Read about the last gasp of an Arabian oilfield *See...
I'm not as concerned about this. Despite one or two fleeting references to the East Bloc and Marxist philosophers in the piece, I don't read it as any kind of...
