“How do We Get There?”
York, England, 28 June to 1 July 2010
We are pleased to announce that the ninth Towards Carfree Cities conference will be held in the historic city of York, England, from Monday 28 June to Thursday 1 July 2010.
Coming to the UK for the first time, this year’s conference is co-organised by [...]
“A new study led by Nadine Unger of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City offers a more intuitive way to understand what’s changing the Earth’s climate. Rather than analyzing impacts by chemical species, scientists have analyzed the climate impacts by different economic sectors.
In their analysis, motor vehicles emerged as the [...]
British illustrator and designer Shtig who was working for Carbusters magazine few years ago created a series of spoof Olympics logos that ridicules this ‘corporate’ event. All images are anti-copyright, so feel free to use them as you want – for stickers, websites or whatever.
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Riot police arrest 23 in night raid on peaceful protest against the destruction of Zagreb pedestrian zone
Zagreb, Croatia, 11 February 2010
At 03.30 this morning around 100 riot police arrested 23 activists from Green Action and the Right to the City initiative in Zagreb, Croatia. The raid took place just hours after 4000 people turned [...]
For your entertainment, a small non-exhaustive list of absurd driving laws:
- In Utah, US, all kinds of birds have the right of way on any highways.
- In China, drivers who stop at pedestrian crossings may receive a fine or a warning under Article 40 of the Beijing Traffic Laws.
- You can’t ride a camel in [...]
In March 2009 Martin Kaltwasser and Folke Köbberling, two artists from Berlin, Germany, took part in the car cult exhibition in Prague along with Carbusters. Their works, which include Crushed Cayenne, a white wood sculpture Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) and bicycle made from recycled car parts, depict the occupation of public space and wastefulness of [...]
As one of the world’s densest urban areas, (18 million people), the city of Mumbai, India is choking – from congestion on the roadways and footpaths, and smog that hangs in the hot, humid air. If an open space appears, it is quickly filled with variety of buildings, vehicles, people, and animals. The city presents a [...]
This week, Mayor Bloomberg announced that Broadway in Times Square (42nd St. to 47th St) and Herald Square (33rd St. to 35th St) will now be permanently closed to traffic. What initially started as an experiment to improve public safety and traffic flow in May 2009 is being widely touted as an outstanding success.
After the test started [...]
According to a new study from Quality Planning – a firm specialised in information provision for the insurance industry – drivers of Hummers receive almost five times as many more traffic tickets than the average driver. Researchers explain this difference with the mistaken feeling of invincibility induced by the Hummer’s elevated driving position. “The sense [...]
Lost for ideas on what to do with your children this weekend? The search is over: go to Diggerland, UK. This theme park offers children the possibility to ride in, and drive, different types of construction machinery. They recently opened a new programme called “Novice driver” that allows now children from nine years of age [...]
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