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Towards Carfree Cities X: What happened in Guadalajara from 3 to 10 September 2011?

This year’s World Carfree Network Conference was organized by the dynamic and fast growing city of Guadalajara, under the title Towards Carfree Cities (Hacia ciudades libres de autos), and with the support and management of two local activist groups, Ciudad Para Todos and GDL en Bici. I was invited to provide the [...]

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PARK(ing) Day

One day a year, in cities throughout the country, parking spots take on a whole new meaning. Simply by paying the parking meter and rolling out some grass, residents claim these spaces as public parks—and have their say about how small but precious pieces of urban real estate are used.
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Carless Single Mother

Going carless for me was not so much a socio-political decision as it was happenstance. The transmission in my beloved 1996 Toyota Camry couldn’t take it anymore and keeled over. I had very recently become a single mother; my son at the time was just a little over a year old. [...]

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Are Cars Really Our Greatest Mistake?

Definitely.
But let me to qualify that just a little. I don’t mean Man’s greatest mistake ever. And I don’t count human foibles or innate weaknesses as mistakes.
What I am talking about is our ongoing rational choice, right now, to spend our physical resources, time and creative energy doing one thing rather [...]

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New York Summer Streets

This summer, for the fourth year in a row, Summer Streets has temporarily closed Park Avenue and connecting streets from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park to motor vehicles on three consecutive Saturdays in August (August 6, 13, & 20).

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Bangkok in Brief

In Bangkok for a short spell, I find myself frequently looking out the window of my hotel to watch the traffic moving slowly down the narrow soi (lane). There are taxis, passenger cars, tuk-tuks and motorcycles, a surprising number of vans and SUVs, vendors pushing carts loaded with rambutan, people riding bicycles, and [...]

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The Spanish Transport System

“Is there anyone who does not want a car?” 
This was the banner beside a new car displayed at the entrance of the old town pedestrian area of Santiago de Compostela last Christmas. This small city in the northwest of Spain has one hundred thousand inhabitants. It also has one hundred thousand cars entering the city [...]

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Briefly Noted: “Slow Motion: Stories About Walking”

Slow Motion: stories about walking is a collection of essays and interviews about walking in an increasingly autocentric society, this documentary project charts South African street life through the eyes of its pedestrians. The arrangement of the book is such that each piece can be read and enjoyed on its own, but the stories are [...]

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A Contemporary Art Exhibition About Bicycle Passion and Sustainable Transportation

Opening: 3 May 2011, 19:00
Gallery NTK, National Technical Library, Technická 6, Prague
4 May -24 May 2011
Curators: Lenka Kukurová (SK/CZ) & Milan Mikuláštík
The international exhibition Velocypedia will introduce works of artists, designers, and fans of cycling, inspired by the most known transport vehicle powered by human force – the bicycle. [...]

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“Ulysses Way”

The proof in picture of all that can be transported by bicycle! This year, the Armory Show, a week-long art exhibition held in March in New York City, included a bicycle.  A dishwasher, a dryer, a chair, a bucket, rolled-up blankets and other household items were stacked on an old Peugeot bicycle in a “towering [...]