Car Free Villages

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 ~Wikipedia