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In the latest issue:
On the Defensive
... (more)Ferrara: Italy's City of Bicycles
By Giuseppe Caprarelli... (more)The Bike-Sharing Phenomenon
... (more)A World Possessed
Is Bike-Sharing Altering our Notions of Possession?... (more)The Financial Car Crash
The Financial Car Crash: How the Credit Crisis Alters the Car LandscapeBy Theo Haris
October 2008 was anything but kind for auto industries. At the time of writing, the following were quite indicative news: Swedish Volvo, owned by Ford, cut 3,300 jobs, amounting to 12% of its workforce; Renault fired 2,000 workers in 19 countries, while it had fired 4,000 alone in France in September; and General Motors (GM) was in such a desperate financial situation that it considered mortgaging its brand new headquarters in Detroit. What is the earthquake that is shaking the self-proclaimed “engines of the economy” to the core?
... (more)
The B:C:Clettes
Dancing Towards a Revolution... (more)From our archive:
Make Love Not Car (Carbusters #35)
World Naked Bike Ride; Towards Carfree Cities Conference VIII; Interview: J.Harry Wray
10th Anniversary (Carbusters #34)
Curitiba: Transportation Capital of Brazil; LiveBroadkast; Jaime Lerner: Interview
Street Conversion Design Contest (Carbusters #33)
Grand Agent; Michael E. Arth: New Pedestrianism; IG Fahrrad
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