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Colin Leath | 13 Mar 2006 23:27

Quarry Village - proposed carfree development near Hayward, CA

http://quarryvillage.org/

Quarry Village is in the Hayward hills, with views of San Francisco
Bay, near the California State University campus.

Quarry Village offers a life-style which is convenient, friendly,
healthy and affordable, yet less dependent on cars. We are looking for
people to sign up and be counted, to show that there is a market for a
more enjoyable place to live and a new style of life.

You can help make Quarry Village a reality.

Check us out. Take our survey. Join the list of those interested.

Number of those qualified and interested to date:
04 of 1000 planned homes

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Just passing on the wonderful word!

Here's where I heard about it:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.politics.activism.buildacarfreecity/121

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Colin Leath | 24 Mar 2006 01:47

The "carfree" patch is available!

Here it is:
http://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/patches/1690/

And the related article:
http://carfreeuniverse.org/Members/colin/carfreechic/

I have yet to buy any, but plan to eventually.

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Todd Edelman | 27 Mar 2006 20:15

City+transport+social interaction analogies needed

Hi,

I am trying to get the "mobility mob" ;-) (rail and public transport
associations such as www.uitp.com, www.uic.asso.fr and www.cer.be) to not
only be more carfree in their thinking BUT also think more about how the
city relates to their missions and agendas. (So the question is kind of
theoretical BUT the answers dont have to be - see below - so I included
this on Carfree Network list since it is about connecting our network with
the other ones... read on...)

They all do great jobs but the problem is that in general these
organisations are way too compartmentalised. And World Carfree Network has
no representation of, for example, the public transport/rail manufacturing
industry, on its Steering Committee or Advisory Board.

It sounds simplistic but working together we can all do a better job, right?

What this means of course is convincing these organisations that things
like carshare cars MAY indeed be public transport but a city that allows
or encourages them also by its very design makes cars more desirable,
which means less trips on PT or rail, and fewer contracts for the rail and
PT manufacturing industry.

I once sat in an office with the communications team from the Polish
railways infrastructure company, and they said they did not want to
discourage people from driving IN cities. This statement made over the din
of crazy Warsaw traffic right outside the window.

So, it seems so simple:
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J.H. Crawford | 29 Mar 2006 14:18
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Re: The Slums in the World's Teeming Cities Need an Urgent Solution


Hi All,

Patrick Collins replied to postings on Carfree_Cities regarding
the urgent need for housing for the poor in shanty-towns around
the world:

>I witnessed this first-hand, when living in Johannesburg, South
>Africa.  Throughout the city there are large unused tracks of land,
>mostly belonging to mining concerns, that have now been completely
>overrun by so-called "squatter camps".  The residents come to the big
>city from the farms, but also from across the continent.  Many of the
>people that I met and spoke to came from as far afield as Zambia,
>Congo, Ivory Coast and Nigeria.
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>There have been some low-cost housing projects, but these are poorly
>implemented.  Each identical tiny house is built on a tiny parcel of
>land, not touching the buildings next to it, with a great wide road to
>accommodate cars that they don't own.  Also the construction is
>sub-standard, with many of these "houses" literally falling apart, or
>being condemned before they have even been lived in.
...
>I think that Mr Crawford's solution is by far the best - 3 / 4 story
>buildings, close together, with some open space reserved for parks.

Can we not get together with UN Habitat and maybe Habitat for
Humanity and try to come up with a real, workable solution to
this problem? It means thinking outside the box. It means NOT
including "a great wide road to accommodate cars that they don't own"
and probably never will. All that is REALLY required is a cheap
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