- Bicycle City
Bicycle City is a planned, eco-friendly,
car-free community that is planned for development in the southeastern United States in late 2008. On August 18, 2008, Bicycle City began accepting the first reservations for the community.The concept of Bicycle City has been influenced by the ideas of
new urbanism , smart growth development and healthy, active communities, as well as the work of people such asFrank Lloyd Wright ,John Naisbitt , Andreas Duany,Paolo Soleri , John Robbins, Scott Martin,Maria Montessori and Richard Register.Bicycle City sponsored, exhibited and presented at the [http://www.ecocityworldsummit.org/ EcoCity World Summit 2008] in April 2008 in San Francisco, California. They also presented, exhibited and sponsored at [http://www.carfreeportland.org Toward Carfree Cities VIII] in Portland, Oregon, June 16-20, 2008; [http://www.takingactionforanimals.org Taking Action for Animals] conference July 19, 2008, in Arlington, Virginia; [http://www.southeastwatershedforum.org/ Southeast Watershed Forum] August 12-14, in Charleston, South Carolina; and [http://www.arconference.org Animal Rights 2008] August 14-18 in Alexandria, Virginia.
Advisers to the Bicycle City project include Richard Register and Kirstin Miller of Ecocity Builders, Ann Lusk of Harvard University and Ward Allebach of the University of Pittsburgh.
ee also
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Carfree day
*List of carfree places
*Carfree Cities
*Principles of Intelligent Urbanism
*Sustainable city External links
* [http://www.bicyclecity.com BicycleCity.com]
* [http://www.worldcarfree.net World Carfree Network]
* [http://www.carfreelife.com carfreelife.com]
* [http://www.carfree.com Carfree.com]
* [http://CommunityCycles.org Community Cycles - Working towards creating car-free lifestyles]
* [http://www.mackinaw.com Mackinaw Island]
* [http://www.catalina.com Catalina Island]
* [http://www.hydra-island.com Hydra Island, Greece]
* [http://www.zermatt.ch/index.e.html Zermatt, Switzerland]
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