Worldwide .• overview realised carfree projects: • proj. Germany - Freiburg: Vauban - Hamburg: Falkenried - Hamburg: Saarlandstreet - Cologne: Nippes / Stellwerk60 - Munich: in Riem - Muenster: Weissenburg • proj. world wide initiatives / planned carfree projects: • init. Germany • init. world wide vacation destinations & pedestrian areas: • Islands • Europe: - Austria - Croatia - Denmark - France - Germany --- Bavaria --- Lower Saxony - Great Britain - Greece - Iceland - Italy - Netherlands - Sweden - Switzerland • Worldwide - China - USA carfree services: • travel carfree: - Railway - travel in groups - Car - share the trip

Please note:
There is for most chapters no english translation, but all links to external english websites and all existing internal english pages are marked..(or with the corresponding flag to link`s language). Links without flag lead to german pages.

English comments in german pages are marked..and written in lilac letters.

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Most links are not strictly tested, therefore all statements and links without warranty.

These lists are incomplete, further details and new carfree places can be integrated gladly. Contact > M. Heller

Realised ("projects"):

• Projekte: in Germany contains:
Berlin: Life-Dream/-room Johannisthal (car-reduced); Bremen: Beginen Court (carfree / car-reduced); Bremen: Gruenenstreet (carfree); Munich: Kolumbusplace II (car-reduced); Nuremberg: Langwasser P (optically carfree); Poppau: Eco-village Seven Limes (optically carfree); Wittenberg: Workers` Settlement Piesteritz (optically carfree)

own pages (mostly there is a short english summary in it):
Freiburg: Vauban (parking-place-free)
Hamburg: Falkenried (carfree)
Hamburg: Saarlandstreet (carfree)
Cologne: Nippes/Stellwerk60 (carfree)
Munich: in Riem (several small carfree & car-reduced projects in the new development of Riem)
Muenster: Weissenburg settlement (carfree)

• Projects: worldwide contains:
AUS-Sydney: Green Olympics (carfree); CHINA-Hongkong: Discovery Bay (carfree); DK-Copenhagen: Christiania (carfree); GB-Edinburgh: Slateford Green (carfree); GB-Edinburgh: High Riggs (carfree); GB-Glasgow: Glenalmond Street (carfree); GB-London: in all Boroughs (carfree); GB-London: Camden (175 carfree projects); GB-London: Elephant & Castle 1+2 (carfree); IT-Venice: Centro Storico (carfree); NL-Amsterdam: GWL-terrein (carfree); A-Vienna: Nordmanngasse (carfree); A-Vienna: Coffin Factory & Miss Coffin Factory (carfree); CH-Bern: Wittikofen (optically carfree); USA-Arcosanti (carfree); USA-Berkeley: several (carfree)

planned / not realised ("initiatives"):

In opposite to the realised projects above it`s here mostly about initiatives for new developments. Initiatives means: They are either still planned or not realised (usually hindered for political reasons). Listed are also those initiatives in/for existing neighbourhoods. Additional, there are listed cities where a site is (or was) searched.

Mobility concepts of the projects & initiatives

Most projects are the real carfree type, means 0.0 - ca. 0.2 parking places per residential unit (for car sharing, visitors and very limited exeptions). There the residents get all advantages of their carfree way of life: They reside in a calmer, greener and safer environment - for lower costs (if not the prices are rising up, as soon as owners recognise the increasing demand due to these better qualities ...!).

There are also listed a few car-reduced projects, with a share up to 0.7 parking places per residential unit, where the interior space is usually carfree.

Listed are also several optically carfree projects. That means, there is a conventional share of parking places (according to the local law codes), but their interior space is carfree. So one cannot drive in and park there, or only for a short, limited time. The parking places are somewhere outside, or in garages underground.
These times this model is wide spread and nothing very special anymore. Therefor I selected only those projects where the question of carfree was an important point, and 
- if they are very large and/or old (example Nuremberg Langwasser), or 
- if they have some special additional qualities (example eco-village Seven Limes in Poppau), or 
- where this interior carfreedom was implemented for very special reasons like culture heritage (example Workers` Settlement Piesteritz in Wittenberg).
Even if the individual car ownership as one main reason for climate pollution is not critisised there, those projects are one first step in the right direction: The car is not that fetish like in the conventional, car-dominated quarters, and they are more family-friendly. But of course there is no financial advantage usually.

Similar to those optically carfree quarters are the parking-place-free projects. The difference is: Here it is possible to drive through the area at lowest speed, but not to park in it for a longer time, and there are (financial) incentives for an individual carfree way of life. Under certain conditions carfree households are not obliged to buy or rent a parking place. The good example is Vauban, a large eco-quarter in Freiburg, where households with car and those without live side by side in the same area. In Vauban one can drive through and stop for a few minutes, but parking is allowed only in two garages at the edge of the area.

More definitions of mobility concepts could be set up in terms of 
- car ownership: only residents (or other selected groups) are allowed to have a car and/or to drive through the area (this modell is used eg on a few islands in the Netherlands),
- the speed of car traffic: sometimes areas are named as carfree, if there are only a few rules (and/or built elements) to reduce the speed of cars, but that should be called precisely "traffic-reduced", not carfree or car-reduced, or
- the time: the street is closed for cars in the evening for a few hours, when the children are coming home from school, or there is a special regular event, or
- a mixture of (elements of) the types described above, in the same area, or in several areas side-by-side.

Not to forget the well-known pedestrian zones all over the world, usually pedestrianised shopping areas in the inner cities, or carfree since all times due to limited space (like the old Medinas in Morocco): They may have very different rules, from "100% vehicle-free 24/7", where even riding a bicycle is not allowed, up to "access allowed for residents and deliveries only" or "access only for special (small or non-polluting) vehicles", in a special time corridor, or even without time limit for defined purposes - the options are endless: depending on local circumstances, and sometimes very creative.

  In the following lists you will find carfree places, some with short descriptions, and most with links to the destinations’ website, or to articles on that carfree area. Sorry, most of these links are in German, but there are more and more available in English or other languages. In any case, the list may be helpful to give you ideas of keywords to start "googling" for further information.

   "Carfree vacation destinations, carfree islands" means:
Listed are carfree places, e.g. islands, regions, valleys, health or tourist resorts. Allover these places are people living without car. They manage it without any problems and enjoy this better lifestyle ...

   "Pedestrian area" (german: Fußgängerzone - FGZ) means: 
Listed are only those cities and villages with large pedestrian areas / zones.

• Islands contains a general overview; the links in it go to the islands in the countries named in the different lists (only internal links).

• Europe contains the other european countries not listed below: Belgium, Estonia, Ireland, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Hungary.

Further european countries listed in own pages:
Austria
Croatia
Denmark
Germany with sub-pages for Bavaria & Lower Saxony
France
Great Britain
Greece
Iceland
Italy
Netherlands
Sweden
Switzerland

• Worldwide contains Australia, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Kampuchea, Kenya, Marocco, Mexico, Panama, Seychelles, Vietnam.

Further worldwide countries listed in own pages:
- China
- USA

Some comments about the experiences of implanting new pedestrian areas / zones in towns:

   A good example is Munich in Germany: After changing the main shopping street Ludwigstrasse (in historical center) into a pedestrian zone the pedestrian traffic rised up for ~450% ! Another good example is Copenhagen, Denmark. At Metropolis Magazine (issue Aug02) you find a good description in 10 steps how they developped more and more pedestrian areas in this northern city, see .Learning from Copenhagen (even though the weather there is often cold, windy and rainy: today nobody wants to miss these new urban culture!)

   So more and more cities perceive the convincing benefits of pedestrian areas and carfree places. Holiday villages and health resorts do offensive PR with the term of "carfree": There is more attraction for tourism, more sale and a better, sustainable image - which may be a good help for the next UNO-funding distribution ...

   See also the guidelines of .Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Canada: "How to Create a Pedestrian Mall".

how to travel carfree

It contains the following:

• some private railway travel agencies in Berlin with best knowledge about the complicated german railway tariff system (empfohlene Bahn-Reisebüros in Berlin).
The first one gets fun in its private competition in finding out cheaper tariffs than the offical german railway Die Bahn - DB by itself ...
The second one is connected to german NGO VCD, so there you`ll get contact to people with knowledge allround sustainable transportation aspects in Germany,

• private CarSharing via Internet,

• informations & links about Climate-ticketing (compensation for air-pollution),

• contact to german NGOs for sustainable transportation (e.g. big german bicycle club ADFC),

• more links around "mobility" allover the page.

   Additional there are two sub-chapters about traveling:

• Railway - travel in groups:
the complicated German railway tariff system gives a lot of reduction to groups, so there have started a lot of internet services to find a partner for group-ticket-sharing.

• Car - share the trip
several internet services: find a partner for private car transits.

   There are projects with sustainable transportation concepts (low car housing, car-reduced quarters, projects with integrated car sharing services, etc.), even if they don`t go so far up to the carfree model. Some examples:

D-Berlin:
Quarters which have been planned formerly carfree, but have been realized only visually carfree, or have been hindered totally, also other eco-quarters and historical urban structures without cars:
• ..../projectsberlin.html (introduction Berlin chapter, overview)
• ..../b-opticalcarfree.html (optically carfree quarters in Berlin)

D-Hamburg - Eimsbuettel: City House Schlump 
Existing old building; inner city; ~0,8 Hektar; 44 residential units; realized 1996; car-sharing project
• .report by Jan Scheurer, Murdoch University (2001)
• more german links see here

D-Tuebingen-South city: Stuttgarter Street / French Quarter 
New development (formerly french military base); complete quarter with all necessary facilities incl. car sharing; inner city; ~60 Hektar; partly realized, partly still in progress; integration of private building-residential-groups, supported by the government with a special administration task force (direct sold by the city)
urban masterplan, mobility concept: "low car housing", means with cars, but less traffic (car-reduced).
• self description by G. Steffen, city councilor for urban design
• ILS Dortmund: short summary (table)
• report www.difu.de
• report www.werkstatt-stadt.de
• concept short summary
• buergerforum-tuebingen.de: Forum French Quarter
• residential housing offer of Investor
private building-residential-groups:
• "CasaNova"
• "An der Blaulach"
• "Wintersonne i.Gr." (planning Zero Energy Building for some families)
• "Französische Allee 23" (site (still?) under construction)

german links

Wohnen ohne Auto - W.o.A., München 
living without car, Munich
• www.wohnen-ohne-auto.de

Büro "Fedora 108"
Office "Fedora 108"
• http://home.germany.net/101-177152/fedora.htm (not up-to-date)

autofrei leben! e.V., Berlin
carfree living!, Berlin
german carfree club, main subject are carfree conferences (e.g. .1997, London), carfree lifestyle & lobbying, lawsuits against car dominance 
• www.autofrei.de
Links to carfree places and organisations:
• www.autofrei.de/links/index.html
contact see also .../Net/Net/Netzwerk.html#al

autofrei-wohnen, Berlin
(you are in)
... have a look in the carfree-network-page also, some NGOs have useful link lists:
• .../Net/Netzwerk.html

.english links

• .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_carfree_places

Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Canada
contains carfree planning, how it is implemented, benefits and costs, street design guidelines, how to create a pedestrian mall, large list of links to best practices examples / case studies and resources for further information:
•.www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm6.htm

Bikes At Work INC. - The Carfree Census Database
check out how many carfree households live in your city !
• .www.bikesatwork.com/carfree/
• .www.bikesatwork.com/carfree/carfree-census-database.html

Initiative, Berkeley
list of links:
• .www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~britt/carfree.htm

Car Free
contains large lists of links around carfreedom:
• .www.car-free.org

The Car-Free Society
designing a carfree city:
• .www.xs4all.nl/~rigolett/indexfr.htm

Initiative "Auto-Free", Ottawa
some carfree Cartoons and useful list of links:
• .www.flora.org/afo/links.html

A Carfree Homepage
Carfree Quotations of Ilya Ehrenburg, Jane Holtz Kay, Jack Kerouac and others:
• .http://home.earthlink.net/~jakre/carfree/index.html

Europe: Car Free Cities Coordination Office, Bruessel/Bruxelles
Unfortunately, it is not what its name promises:
• .www.edc.eu.int

Pedestrians, England
• .www.Pedestrians.org

Citystreets, New York
pedestrian advocates:
• .www.citystreets.org