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<http://networkdispatches.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/the-story-of-the-helsinki
-equitytransport-project/> The story of the Helsinki equity/transport
project


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-equitytransport-project/> 9 May 2012 by
<http://networkdispatches.wordpress.com/author/worldstreets/> Eric Britton,
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Nothing is more attractive to me than a muddled
discussion awaiting its first theory.

- E. O. Wilson, Biophilia, Harvard University Press, 1984

In the very first days of 2012 and looking to the year ahead  I followed up
on a long standing conversation with Mrs. Leena Silfverberg, whom I have
known for some years and worked with on several occasions on sustainable
transport projects of various sorts in Finland and who in her day job is
head of the Regional Planning Unit in the City Planning
Department/Transportation of the city of Helsinki.  Our on-going exchanges
had to deal with our shared concern that new forms of mobility were coming
online in cities across the world and  in the process changing the generally
accepted view that transport in cities is provided either by people driving
cars or taking public transportation. (Article continues)

 

For article and information on how to obtain report: http://wp.me/p1fsqb-NW 

 

 

PS.  Please note new address and phone number as of 24 April 2012

 

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