Cohousing-L Mailing List: Sustainable neighborhoods + communities = cities

[Thomas Lofft (tlofft]

I want to share the following articles about the Vauban District in Germany 
which has recreated a surplus military district into a traffic free residential 
community with many shared resource ethics at an urban scale. 

http://cereplast.com/blog/2011/02/03/vauban-district-germany-when-environmental-planning-gives-birth-to-sustainable-communities/
 
http://sustainablecities.dk/en/city-projects/cases/vauban-an-environmentally-friendly-and-almost-car-free-city
 
Thanks for reading.
Tom