World Streets Weekly Edition of 7 February 2011

Weekly Edition of 7 February 2011

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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

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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

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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?

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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 . . .

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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
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was held in New Delhi between December 3 and 5 , 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 . . .

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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.

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And in closing:

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

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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