Northeast Neighbors for Peace & Justice invites you to our next Friday night video/potluck at Flor y Canto:
April 15 Livable Places The mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, closed downtown streets to cars and built bus stops that load and unload passengers with the same speed as subways. In Boston, urban agriculture produces more than ten thousand pounds of vegetables each season. A livable city is one that has enough affordable homes, viable alternatives to driving alone, jobs that pay a living wage, streets that are pedestrian and bicycle friendly; and parks and plazas in every neighborhood. How can we make our city, characterized by huge economic disparities, concrete-encased rivers, and a landscape of subdivisions, freeways, and malls, into a more livable place?
This Friday we bring you 2 presentations on that question:
Local non-profit Livable Places works to facilitate pedestrian-oriented, mixed-income, mixed-use neighborhoods in areas that are well-served by transit. Vanessa Luna will let us know about her organization's efforts to encourage builders and local governments to incorporate sustainable building practices and smart growth.
Then we will screen Livable Landscapes: By Chance or By Choice? (2002, 57 minutes) which explores the connection between landscape and community in northern New England, focusing on how growth and sprawl affect quality of life. By examining the history of land use and the changes that have hit working forests, farms, village centers and urban downtowns, the film looks at how communities have tried to preserve the qualities that make them unique. The film explores five communities struggling with choices about transformations that are underway.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Northeast Neighbors for Peace and Justice Video/Potlucks almost every Friday, Gather about 8:00, movie starts about 8:30, bring food or drink to share if you can.
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