CoolTowns on housing types

Re: CoolTowns on housing types

Tom Bloxham

Re: Amtrak Illinois Ridership is Growing

Re: Tom Bloxham

On Mar 4, 2007, at 8:04 AM, Simon Baddeley wrote:

> Interesting?
>
> http://www.prideofmanchester.com/interviews/TomBloxham.htm
>
> Not directly carfree but an entrepreneur keen on making city centres
> habitable – and more.
>
Very good.  I put a scribble and link about it on New Colonist.

Many thanks, Simon.

Richard
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US Public Transport Usage Hits Fifty-Year High

Hi,

This hopefully adds some useful information to the positive report 
"Transit News from the USA" in Carfree Times #45... see: 
http://www.carfree.com/cft/i045.html

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*US Public Transport Usage Hits Fifty-Year High*

THE number of passengers using public transport in the United States has 
topped 10 billion for the first time in 49 years, according to the 
latest figures from the American Public Transportation Association 
(Apta). Apta says public transport use rose by 30% between 1995 and 
2006, more than double the rate of population growth (12%) and greater 
than the increase in car journeys, which rose 24% in the same period.

Light rail witnessed the highest percentage increase of all modes in 
2006, with passenger numbers increasing 5.6%. The highest increases 
occurred in San Jose (36.6%), Minneapolis (18.4%), and New Jersey (20.1%).

Passenger numbers on the country’s metro networks also saw healthy 
growth, with an increase of 4.1% nationally. Los Angeles saw a 10.8% 
rise in passenger numbers, New Jersey had a 10.1% increase, and Atlanta 
carried 6.3% more passengers than in 2005.

Commuter rail posted the third largest increase at 3.2%. The largest 
increases were recorded in the Miami (21.3%) and Harrisburg, 
Pennsylvania (18.9%) areas.

from: <http://www.railjournal.com/latenews.html>

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carfree quarter "Nippes" in Cologne in the German Radio

Hi all german-understanding group-members,

today the new carfree quarter "Nippes" in Cologne (still under construction)
was in the national radio DLF. This is really great, because DLF is heard by 
decisionmakers.

As part of a larger development they are building ~400 carfree housing
units, some of them as pure eco-houses, (and more car-conventional)
At the rim they will add ~80 parking places (so with this key of 0,2
the project is still carfree by definition), also they provide a mobility
agency. First residents are moving in.

The initiators demanded zero parking places, but the investor refused that,
and unfortunately the city followed him. The investor said in the beginning
(some years ago), without those parking places he would get marketing
problems, but the truth is (what isn`t said in the radio), that the
investor`s prices are much higher compared to the Cologne situation.
However, that didn`t stop the whole thing, now there are enough people who
want to live carfree in Nippes. Seems the car garages at the rim will be
used from car-owners in the neighbourhood.

And, btw, the eco-buildings were sold first.

websites (all in german only):
- from the initiators:
http://www.autofreie-siedlung-koeln.de/

- from the first carfree residents:
http://www.nachbarn60.de/

- from the investor:
http://www.stellwerk60.de/

more links to Nippes:
http://www.autofrei-wohnen.de/InitiativenD.html#Koeln-Nippes

cheers,
Markus
http://www.autofrei-wohnen.de/homeEngl.html

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Die autofreie Siedlung Köln

Audiofile (950 kb):
http://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2007/03/20/dlf_200703201417.mp3

Sendezeit: 20.03.2007 14:17
Autor: Denecke, Axel
Programm: Deutschlandfunk (DLF)
Sendung: Deutschland heute
Länge: 04:02 Minuten

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Die im Beitrag von Hans-Georg Kleinmann erwähnte Studie wurde in Nürnberg
durchgeführt. Nach dieser vergleichenden Wohnumfeld-Studie* sind die Kinder
des autofreien Wohnquartiers "P" in ihrer Entwicklung den Kindern des
konventionellen Nachbarquartiers "U" um  knapp 2 Jahre voraus:

(...) Besonders hervorzuheben ist die Feststellung, daß das Alter, in dem
Kinder regelmäßig ohne Begleitung in das Wohnumfeld gehen, in P wesentlich
niedriger als in U liegt. In P verläßt ein Kind im Durchschnitt mit 3,8
Jahren, in U mit 5,6 Jahren das Haus allein! (...) Eine ergänzende Frage
ergab, daß viele Kinder in P die ganze Nachbarschaft besuchen dürfen,
während Kinder in U häufig von den Eltern einen Baublock als maßgebende
Grenze gesetzt bekommen. (...)*

* Quelle:
Margit Nützel: "Nutzung und Bewertung des Wohnumfeldes in Großwohnsiedlungen
am Beispiel der Nachbarschaften U und P in Nürnberg-Langwasser"
Hrsg. Prof. Dr. Rolf Monheim; Reihe: Arbeitsmaterialien zur Raumordnung und
Raumplanung, Heft 119; Universität Bayreuth 1993, Abteilung Angewandte
Stadtgeographie, Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften.

*

Der Stellplatzschüssel von ca 0,2 (ca 80 Stellplätze auf ca 400 autofreie
Wohnungen) entspricht noch gerade der üblichen Definition für autofreie
Siedlungen:
http://www.autofrei-wohnen.de/Definition.html

*

http://www.land-der-ideen.de/CDA/ort_des_tages,1987,1,,de.html?action=detail&id=1646

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[GTZ-SUTP] Carfree Development Module (3e) now in Chinese

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