[SustainableTompkins] Auto-City or Eco-City presentation

[GayNicholson at aol.com]

Auto-City or Eco-City? 
South  Hill School, Tuesday, March 25th, 7:00-9:00  PM 




Robert Morache, chair of  Connect Ithaca, will give a PowerPoint presentation 
in the South Hill Elementary  School Cafeteria, Tuesday, March 25th, 
7:00-9:00 PM. The presentation will  consider how our un-wavering accommodation of the 
automobile as the primary  means of urban mobility has become a limit to 
Ithaca's growth and development,  and is eroding urban quality of life. The 
presentation will offer an alternative  vision of urban mobility and real estate 
development which sheds light on the  pivotal role that re-thinking 
transportation inside and outside the city can  play in moving Ithaca towards a more 
environmentally sustainable, economically  competitive and socially vibrant future. 
The presentation will also consider the  urgency with which our community 
needs to re-arrange its transportation  priorities, in order to cope with 
escalating energy costs, the peaking of world  oil production and global climate 
change. 


An open discussion will  follow. 


Robert Morache is an  Ithaca resident, architectural and green building 
design consultant, and has  taught design at Syracuse University. He is chair of 
Connect Ithaca, a group  committed to forwarding fresh thinking about 
transportation and urban  design. 


Connect Ithaca thanks TCLocal for its help, and especially  thanks the South 
Hill Civic Association for sponsoring this  presentation.  


Contact person: John Graves, Tel. 272-6415
 
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Gay  Nicholson, Ph.D. 

607-533-7312 (home office)
607-279-6618  (cell)

1 Maple Avenue
Lansing, NY  14882
gaynicholson at aol.com

Sustainable Tompkins 
Program  Coordinator 
w_ww.sustainabletompkins.org_ (http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/) 

Southern Tier Energy$mart Communities
Regional  Coordinator
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
615 Willow  Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850
agn1 at cornell.edu




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