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| ====== Car Free Villages ====== | ====== Car Free Villages ====== |
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| * [[https://www.lascatalinascr.com|Las Catalinas, Costa Rica]] Las Catalinas is a beach town developed in 2006 along the shores of the Pacific Ocean in the Guanacaste Province of northwest Costa Rica.[1] The objective was to create a compact, car-free, and fully walkable town, based on the principles of New Urbanism.[2] Las Catalinas was founded by Charles Brewer (businessman), who was intrigued by the affect walkable towns have on the health, happiness and well being, of humans [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Catalinas%2C_Costa_Rica|~Wikipedia]] | The idea is sprouting up of making cities or villages more car free. The following are some extreme examples: |
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| | ==== Las Catalinas, Costa Rica ==== |
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| | {{:las-catalinas-plaza.jpg?nolink&400|}} |
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| | [[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/realestate/costa-rica-carless-community-las-catalinas.html|Photo NY Times, 2019]] |
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| | 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]] |
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| | Discovered via new urbanist researcher [[https://twitter.com/SCP_Hughes/status/1538525957375823872|Samuel Hughes]] |
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| | * [[https://www.lascatalinascr.com|lascatalinascr.com]] |
car-free-villages.txt · Last modified: 2022/06/20 09:40 by maus