All Eyes on the Sharing Economy

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With more than seven billion souls already on this crowded planet, and one or two hundred thousand more joining us every day, you don' t have to be a genius  to figure out that some of the basics of the last couple of  centuries are going to have to change. One of these is the dominant (and largely unquestioned) concept of…

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Change has to take root in people’s minds (before it can be legislated)

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Professor John Adams has spent quite some years in researching, thinking, talking and writing about risk, and about risk when it comes to how people get around in their daily lives. This posting is taken from his blog “Risk in a hypermobile world”  His attraction to transport problems grew out of his involvement in the 1970s and 80s as an objector at public inquiries, on behalf of Friends of the Earth, to the British Government’s road building plans.

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New Mobility Partnerships 2013: An Invitation

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New Mobility Consult is the advisory and consulting arm of World Streets and its world-wide network of international partners, publications, programs, social media and focus groups. This open collaborative program  has been dedicated to sustainable transport policy and practice since 1988. Here are some of the ways in which this international competence can be put to work for your city, agency or firm in 2013.

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INVISIBILITY: Just because you can't see it (or prefer not to) doesn't mean . . .

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You are warmly invited to comment on all or any of these.

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World Transport Policy & Practice – Vol. 19, No. 2

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Rural access, health & disability in Africa

A Special Edition of World Transport, Spring 2013

Transport, health and disability are interlinked on many levels, with transport availability directly and indirectly influenc­ing health, and health status influencing transport options. This is especially the case in rural locations of sub-Saharan Af­rica, where transport services are typically not only high cost, but also less frequent and less reliable than in urban areas.

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Searching World Streets - An open library and toolkit at your fingertips

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World Streets is more than a collaborative blog with a very specific focus; it also offers an extensive site and collection of working materials, references and tools in support of our collective push to more sustainable cities.  At this point several thousand articles, tools,  images, and other media are assembled in the family of World Streets sustainability toolkit.

But if it is to be useful as an open library and toolset, we need to be able to offer ways to sort through all this digital chaos, so that you can have a chance to find the kind of information or support you are looking for.

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Saudi women can now legally bike in public (under certain conditions)

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Inside world: World Streets 2013 Haiku Sustainability Slam

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Sustainability is not a four letter word (but maybe it should be)

The 2013 Haiku Sustainability Slam is being organized by World Streets and its friends as a pagan celebration to the coming Rite of Spring, in part inspired by  the exhilarating  French annual speak-out program The Springtime of Poets (Le printemps des poètes) which runs this year  to the 24th of March.  

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Program Announcement: World Carshare 2013 Policy/Strategies Program for Local Government

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Carsharing has a brilliant, in many ways surprising and certainly very different future -- a future which is already well in process. Carsharing is one of the fastest growing new mobility modes, with until now almost all services occurring in the high income countries. But it is by and large new, unfamiliar and does not fit well with the more traditional planning and policy structures at the level of the city.

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Weekend musing: If you like anything at all about World Streets, please make sure you go see Wadjda.

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Can you judge a city by its street furniture?

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Street furniture.  Put it like that and it sounds a bit banal, like a detail. A choice that may or may not seem to be of much important.  Not really "necessary" and perhaps even an unaffordabel luxury for a city at a time of limited budgets. But good street furniture -- and even more great street furniture -- is a sign of a city that cares.

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SEARCH FOR A CITIZEN APP: "CLICK-TO-FIX"

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For my colleagues in the city of Lyon, I am trying to give them a reference for an app which permits citizens to identify and report on problems on the streets in very specific and convenient ways.  Here is how it might/should work:

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