In June, academics, city planners and campaigners from all over the world will take part in the week-long Towards Carfree Cities IX conference in York.
The Towards Carfree Cities conference is a global gathering which aims to develop practical alternatives to car-dependent lifestyles and car-dominated cities. It is an annual forum for cutting-edge, radical thinking in transport policy and car-free development. Up to 200 participants from around the world are expected, primarily from the UK and Europe.
The conference series are run by the World Carfree Network, based in the Czech capital, Prague and is being hosted by Carfree UK from 28 June to 1 July 2010. The conference will be looking at the carfree vision of cities – where amenities are within walking distances, and space is reallocated from transport back to shared community use. The question being posed is: how can we get there from here?
One of the York organisers, Randall Ghent, said "The plan to build new eco-towns is almost a distraction. Most people in the UK live in cities built long before the car became supreme. We need a plan to fix our cities, and put them back on the human scale."
Registration and conference programme details are available here.
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