Comments on: Vauban, the German Suburb without Cars

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Tripoli Goes Car Free, If Only for a Day or Two | Green Prophet — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:59:32 +0000

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By: Urbanites Stoned on Carbon Monoxide | Green Prophet

Urbanites Stoned on Carbon Monoxide | Green Prophet — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:53:06 +0000

[…] dream about living in a car-less city like Vauban. But my love affair with the Middle East keeps me dreaming. Rampant with air pollution, every fall […]

By: Devon Childress

Devon Childress — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:50:39 +0000

This town blows

By: secret

secret — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:18:21 +0000

WOW cities like these are the best and help the enviroment!!!!!!!!

By: joe

joe — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:42:20 +0000

USA is woefully inadequate when it comes to having a variety of transportation.It is very hard without a car.It is very hard for a blind person.

By: Daniella

Daniella — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:38:14 +0000

It would be really neat to have a new Vauban. It’s funny, Israeli cities – even most of the intermediate suburbs like Kfar Saba, Holon, Ra’anana – have lots of apartment blocks, some mixed use areas and decent links to public transportation. The real issue is the lack of bike-friendly infrastructure, which would disappear or be reduced if there were Vaubanized districts.

On another note, I think we could introduce a new word to Israeli life to mean taking any form of transportation that isn’t a private car.

“Want a ride to the supermarket?” “No thanks, I’m Vaubanning.”

By: Karin Kloosterman

Karin Kloosterman — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:31:53 +0000

I lived in a Swiss village for a year. A group of about 30 of us shared a car for weekend trips, and jaunts to the grocery store. We paid per km used, and not gas, which was factored into the per km tariff. (The Swiss are very good at calculating fair prices… )

Most of the time the car sat idle.

Mainly I rode my bike everywhere (even around mountains), and took the ever accessible and cheap train everywhere, even to the teeniest tiniest villages. It was a beautiful thing. I dream of such a train for Israel. I dream that Tel Aviv and Jaffa could become Vauban….

By: greenprophet

greenprophet — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:05:57 +0000

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Lisa Damast — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:52:21 +0000

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