Exhibit imagines sustainable transportation in New York, 9 other cities in 2030
By Karen Matthews, APThursday, June 24, 2010
NY exhibit imagines utopian, green cities in 2030
NEW YORK — Imagine no cars — or fewer, anyway.
In New York City, a two-mile stretch of the FDR Drive parkway is torn down to open lower Manhattan for parks and plazas. In Jakarta, Indonesia, bike taxis are re-engineered to be lighter and easier to steer.
These cities and eight others are featured in an exhibit on environmentally friendly transportation opening Thursday in New York.
The exhibit is titled “Our Cities Ourselves.” It’s at the Center for Architecture in Greenwich (GREN’-ich) Village through Sept. 11 before traveling to the other cities.
Organizers say if cities don’t embrace alternatives to the private car by 2030 the world will face the possibility of disastrous climate change.
The other cities are Guangzhou, China; Ahmedabad, India; Budapest, Hungary; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Johannesburg; Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro.
