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By: Pick Your Place and Let The Rest Fall Into Place | Small Hands, Big Ideas

Pick Your Place and Let The Rest Fall Into Place | Small Hands, Big Ideas — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:02:53 +0000

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By: Grace Boyle

Grace Boyle — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:00:02 +0000

@Roxanne I like your point that we shouldn't eliminate small cities. I think it's important to have cities co-existing with small towns (maybe who are 'slow') as well. Yes, Boulder has the potential because we're already environmentally friendly and largely a local, organic small city. Thanks for sharing, I would be happy to continue the conversation when you find out more or if you try to implement something in Bellingham!

By: Grace Boyle

Grace Boyle — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:00:02 +0000

By: Roxanne Nelson

Roxanne Nelson — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:57:22 +0000

I enjoyed your article about slow cities and I've wondered the same thing myself. Is the US ready for this? I noticed that you live in Boulder, Co, which is roughly the same size as the town I live in–Bellingham, WA. Both are places surrounded by natural beauty and I think potential to be Slow-ish cities (both a little too large for the certified slowcities movement). I had heard of slow food, but never slow cities until today, when I read an article about it by chance, and then spent some time browsing the Internet for more info–which brought me to your blog post.

I would like to do something in my town. The foundation for Slow-ness is already there. I really don't think it is fair to eliminate larger cities, because I think that is where the need for “slow” is strongest.

By: Grace Boyle

Grace Boyle — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:29:33 +0000

@Vicki I think you're right. Maybe if we focused more on local, sustainability and also slowed down we could get close to the slow city ideal. I can't really see it happening in a city in the U.S. but like their Charter outlines, it has to be a small town and have certain parameters. Maybe little towns could adopt pieces of this because they're more 'slow' moving in general.

Thanks for sharing!

By: vickikb

vickikb — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:37:50 +0000

I love this idea, but I don't know if it would ever be viable in the United States given how different the concept of time in the US from Europe and other parts of the world. Take even the first concept of slow eating: in the US a 1.5 hour lunch is considered suspicious by your boss, to the point where many eat at their desks so they can always be available through e-mail. In Israel, where I interned at a large bank, it's not much of a problem and everyone enjoys their food and the waiters at restaurants never try to rush you out the door (I'm sure it's similar in Italy.) Would it be great if we could all slow down and appreciate more? Yup. Does it make economic/cultural sense? Not so sure.

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Slow Cities | Small Hands, Big Ideas | Italyt Today — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:27:53 +0000

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