Towards Carfree Cities IX - York 2010 update

Dear all

On behalf of our organising team, I just want to invite you once again to
attend the ninth Towards Carfree Cities conference, from June 28th to July
1st this year. World Carfree Network's annual meeting is then taking place
on July 2nd, followed by some optional weekend excursions.

For a summary of the programme - which is improving week by week - see
http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/programme.php

For anything else about the conference, please see the main page
http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/ and the links can be found from
there.

There is a substantial discount on registration for World Carfree Network
members, and we'd strongly recommend that you register and book your
accommodation by the end of March. (York is a busy place, and hotels/hostels
will fill up.)

We would like to ask for your help in spreading the word about the
conference. With this in mind, I'm attaching a PDF flyer. If you could pass
it along to your networks and contacts, we'd very much appreciate it.

I've also pasted below a conference announcement that you are free to
publish wherever you like.

Lastly, I'm about to start working half time on the conference, so please do
get in touch and share your ideas for the programme.

Hope to see you in June,

Randy

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Randall Ghent
WORLD CARFREE NETWORK
home address: 20 Gale Lane
Acomb, York YO24 3BB, U.K.
tel: +(44) 1904 796860
skype: randallghent
[email protected]



TOWARDS CARFREE CITIES IX - YORK 2010

We invite you to join us for this international gathering of experts,
practitioners and campaigners dedicated to promoting sustainable and
equitable alternatives to the motor car. The focus is on strategy,
collaboration and exchange, assisting the practical work of conference
participants, from organising carfree days to planning the carfree cities of
the future.

This year's conference, "How Do We Get There?", will focus on bringing
carfree communities to life, considering a range of strategies from
temporary events to permanent road space reallocation to European models of
new carfree development. We plan to carry out a real street conversion
during the conference!

We will also learn from and seek inspiration from the past, by looking at
how the medieval pedestrian city was organised spatially, and how these
principles could be applied to future settlements. The key challenges of
fostering political and public acceptability for car reduction measures will
be examined, including an exploration of the conditions under which people
willingly give up the car in exchange for the benefits of living in
traffic-free environments.

Keynote speakers:

   - Dr Barbara
Schmucki<http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/irs/irshome/about/bs.htm>(Institute
of Railway Studies and Transport History, University of York) -
   *The Quick and The Dead: A History of the Pedestrian*
   - J.H. Crawford <http://www.carfree.com/book/bio.html> (author of *Carfree
   Cities* and *Carfree Design Manual*) - *A Vision of Carfree Cities for
   the 21st Century*
   - Professor John
Whitelegg<http://sei-international.org/?p=staff&staffid=100>(Liverpool
John Moores University and Stockholm Environment Institute) -
   *Designing a Zero-Carbon Transport System: Action Speaks Louder than
   Words*

For more information, visit http://www.worldcarfree.net/conference/

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