January-June 2024
ISSN : 2455-2380
The Slow City
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January-June 2024
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The term and the notions behind the idea of a “Slow City” are thankfully not new. Based on the concept of Slow Food (in contrast to Fast Food), the “Cittaslow” movement started as early as 1999 in Italy with Paolo Saturnini, former Mayor of Greve in Chianti, a modest town in Tuscany. His intuition that the world needed to slow down was not wrong. In essence, the Slow City seeks to revive aspects that were always part of our cities before they transformed into fast-paced accumulations – prioritizing people over cars, prioritizing nature over development, and making places that prioritize health as much as efficient performance. How do we regain this “lost balance?” this issue asks.
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