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Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues in Toronto.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This week’s World Wide Wednesday is dedicated to automobile liberation (as in our liberation from the car… not the car’s movement for sovereignty). \u00a0Look out for my follow up piece later this week, discussing cycling diversity (or lack there of) in Toronto.<\/p>\n

• New York has revived their Summer Streets<\/a> initiative for a second year,\u00a0closing Park Avenue and connecting streets\u00a0from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park\u00a0to car traffic for three consecutive Saturdays this month. Along New York’s route are activities such as dance and fitness classes; arts and music events; and cycling-related workshops, such a\u00a0demonstrations from bike share programs<\/a> from around the world, including Montreal’s Bixi. Oh, and rapper-entrepreneur-extraordinaire\u00a0Jay-Z was on hand to launch the program this past Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

• Summer Streets can be traced back to “Ciclovia,” an initiative introduced in Bogot\u00e0\u00a1, Colombia, where Mississauga’s own Gil Pe\u00e0\u00b1alosa (of Walk and Bike for Life) was then\u00a0Commissioner of Parks, Sport and Recreation for the City. The project\u00a0sees 91 km of street closed to traffic every Sunday, with an estimated 1.5 million participants.\u00a0A <\/a>2007 video on streetfilms.org<\/a> highlighting Ciclovia features Pe\u00e0\u00b1alosa, who will be meeting with Ontario Minister of Health Promotion Margaret Best in upcoming weeks, recently hinted, “we should try that in Ontario.”<\/p>\n

• Other cities that have been inspired by Bogot\u00e0\u00a1’s Ciclovia <\/em>include Portland, Oregon, where participants’ stories are being posted online<\/a>; Paris, where participants have been regulated to cover-up<\/a>; and Quito, Ecuador, where this Sunday, Ecuadorian singer\u00a0Fernando Pacheco will be filming a video at Ciclopaseo <\/a><\/em>(Quito’s version of the initiative)<\/a>, inviting the public to participate. Unfortunately, an experiment in car-free Sundays in Vancouver, dubbed “Summer Spaces,” was recently cancelled due to complaints from business owners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

• Former Talking Heads frontman and long-time cycling advocate, David Byrne has a new book coming out, chronicling his experiences as a cyclist in cities across the globe.<\/a> Look for its Canadian release in September.<\/p>\n

• Google Street View has taken its cameras off of cars and remounted them on tricycles in order to capture off-road locations. The trikes have recently been spotted\u00a0traversing the British countryside<\/a>, visiting such tourist attractions as Stonehenge and Loch Ness.<\/p>\n

•\u00a0And just for good measure\u00a0—\u00a0more lessons in road safety to be learned from the Dutch<\/a>. \u00a0This piece from the Sustainable Cities Collective on the “Forgiving Highway” highlights nicely how theory can only get us so far\u00a0—\u00a0\u00a0but only appropriate application will take us the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

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