[sustran] World Streets Weekly Edition for 7 February 2011

[eric britton]

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WORLD STREETS 2010: ASPIRATIONS, ACCOMPLISHMENTS, BUILDING BLOCKS, AND WORK
STILL NEEDED TO MOVE AHEAD 
The most significant accomplishment over this last year has been that World
Streets has somehow managed to continue publication on a weekly basis, and
step by step to improve the journal and steadily build up our international
readership and contributions. And all this really quite against the odds and
with less than modicum of the necessary financial support. But good cause,
high commitment and fair performance carry the day, with the result that
each week 


PUTTING SOCIAL MEDIA TO WORK ON WORLD STREETS (PART II) 
World Streets Social Media/Networking Game Plan in Brief (Working notes)
Target: Let's see if and how we can best select and apply a batch of
hopefully synergistic available social media tools to extend readership,
content and support for World Streets in 2011. We do not at this point know
enough about how all these things work to develop anything like a structured
game plan -- but we are ready to play around a bit to determine how we might
put to work one or some combination of these 


PUTTING SOCIAL MEDIA TO WORK ON WORLD STREETS (PART I) 
Question: Is there some way (or good reason) to integrate, link, make talk
to each other usefully, whatever, the various social media to which we are
trying to hook World Streets in some way. We at present have created two-way
links between World Streets, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. We are seeing
some utility in the individual hookups (but not all that much thus far),
however I am baffled when it comes to figuring out how to orchestrate them
in some useful way. Are we wasting our time or is there a creative fit? And
what might that be? 


DÍA SIN COCHES EN BOGOTÁ XI : Carlosfelipe Pardo reporting live from the
street on occasion of the city's 11th Car Free Day 
This just in from our fearless embedded reporter on the streets of Bogotá
Día sin coches XI. Carlos refers in his email to the seminal project which
kicked off the basic structure for organizing days without cars back in 1994
under the title "Thursday: A Breakthrough Strategy for Reducing Car
Dependence in Cities" . Later Thursday provided a part of the blueprint for
the first Car Free Day to be organized in Bogotá under the exceptional
leadership of then-mayor Enrique Penalosa on the first Thursday of . . . 


REVIEW: URBAN MOBILITY INDIA 2010 
The annual “flagship event” of the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) of
India’s federal government, Urban Mobility India 2010 was held in New Delhi
between December 3rd and 5th, 2010 with the aim of creating “Accessible and
Inclusive Cities”. This article reviews the main themes and happenings of
the event, and though it may appear to nit-pick, it does appreciate the
effort of the organisers in organising the event, and holds that perhaps the
biggest achievement of the event was to be able to have a serious debate on
controversial topics . . . 


THE STATE OF WORLD STREETS: 2010, 2011 & YOUR IMAGINATION (PART I) 
With the new year of 2011 World Streets is entering its third year of
publication and we thought that you might possibly  like to have this short
report on its status, outlook, and in closing a few points to which you may
wish to give some thought for your own personal new mobility agenda in the
year ahead. 


AND IN CLOSING: 

*   *  *  Here is this week's one minute movie (Just in case you missed it.)


Bodhisattva in the metro - at
http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/bodhisattva-in-the-metro/ 
The Sanskrit term Bodhisattva is the name given to anyone who, motivated by
great compassion and wisdom, has generated bodhichitta, a spontaneous wish
to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings. What makes
someone a Bodhisattva is her or his spontaneous and limitless dedication to
the ultimate welfare of others


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