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Eat, Drink, and Go Slow.(Europe advocates slow pace of life)(Statistical Data Included)
Between red terracotta roofs just outside the northern Italian town of Bra, there rises a church tower with a clock that is a half hour slow. In Bra, that's close enough to be right on time. Though not far from the bustle and industrial stench of Turin, Bra smells of lilacs, and leisure is the law. It is both the home of an international movement that promotes "slow food" (the opposite of American fast food) and one of 31 Italian municipalities that have joined a sister cause, the "slow cities." By local decree these cities have declared themselves havens from the accelerating pace of life in the global economy. In Bra, population 27,866, the town fathers have declared ...
- Liveability--Slow Cities and Smart Growth: Peter Jones, David Hillier, and...
- Magazine article from: Town and Country Planning Jones, Peter Hillier, David Comfort, Daphne December 1, 2003 700+ words
...contrasting, policy mirrors for the UK. Slow Cities The Slow Cities movement has its origins in the 'Slow Food' movement, (1) which began...live in a 'Slow City'. Like its Slow Food parent, the Slow Cities movement has its heartland In Italy...
- The slow cities movement. (Slow Activism).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: New Internationalist March 1, 2002 700+ words
INSPIRED BY the Slow Food movement, 32 Italian cities and towns...preserve their unique character by creating 'slow cities'. According to the Mayor of the Tuscan...principles, see www.matogmer.no/slow_cities_citta-slow
- SLOW FOOD.(Italian movement against fast food)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Alternatives Journal INOUYE, BRENDA January 1, 2001 700+ words
...lovers, Petrini founded Slow Food -- a philosophy, movement...properly appreciated. Slow Food, based in Bra, near...Italy, now has over 400 Slow Food convivia (local branches...off-shoot called the Slow Cities movement, made up of...
- SLOW FOOD JUNKIES.(life style movement in Italy)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: State Legislatures October 1, 2000 700+ words
...featuring a snail crawling past two buildings (one ancient, one modern), a promising new movement in Italy that calls itself Slow Cities has sprung up to promote home-style food, local crafts and all-around good living. To join, cities and towns must introduce...
- Are we relaxed yet?(From the Editor's Desk)
- Magazine article from: Natural Life Priesnitz, Wendy March 1, 2005 700+ words
...documents the ways that increasing (if still relatively small) numbers of us are doing just that by describing the Slow Food, Slow Cities and Slow Sex movements, as well as what could be called slow parenting, slow work, slow medicine and slow...
- Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International August 6, 2001 700+ words
...Easy Way of Life Readers of our July 2 story on the Slow Food and Slow City movements in Europe readily endorsed...possibilities are illegal. David Chenault Zwickau, Germany Slow food and slow cities are protests against American culture and globalization...
- Letters.
- Magazine article from: New Internationalist May 1, 2002 700+ words
...picture seemed to say it all. The greedy are destroying the only home we know. I relish the sound of the Slow Food Movement, the Slow Cities Movement, the Shorter Work Week and the Society for the Deceleration of Time. Wonderfully refreshing...
- Clive Hamilton on radical slowness.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Arena Magazine Lewis, C.S. April 1, 2005 700+ words
...rejected Fast in favour of Slow. He found some genuine alternatives to the cult of speed, including the slow food movement and the slow cities movement, both centred in Europe, especially Italy. But as he trawls the world in search of anything...
Source: HighBeam Research, Eat, Drink, and Go Slow.(Europe advocates slow pace of...