====== Car Free Villages ======

The idea is sprouting up of making cities or villages more car free. The following are some extreme examples:

==== Las Catalinas, Costa Rica ====

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[[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/realestate/costa-rica-carless-community-las-catalinas.html|Photo NY Times, 2019]]

Las Catalinas is a beach town developed in 2006 along the shores of the Pacific Ocean in the Guanacaste Province of northwest Costa Rica. The objective was to create a compact, car-free, and fully walkable town, based on the principles of New Urbanism. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Catalinas%2C_Costa_Rica|~Wikipedia]]

Discovered via new urbanist researcher [[https://twitter.com/SCP_Hughes/status/1538525957375823872|Samuel Hughes]]

  * [[https://www.lascatalinascr.com|lascatalinascr.com]]