Car Free Cities?? Worlds out of oil??

whater border city (The Country)Rem Koolhaas just designed, an island within a newly built city in which there will be no car and will accommodate 90.000 people. Ironies of life to do so in a desert area, gaining on the sea, and in a country living oil. Feeling for a bright side, to see if the model works and something we can copy us.
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/isla/ecologica/Rem/Koolhaas/elpepucul/20080609elpepicul_1/Tes



And along with oil, two events, one that does not invite us and another that yes. The 29 on June 3 July in Madrid meet different spokesmen both governments as managers of the most representative of the oil industry, at the 19th World Petroleum Congress. Basically will talk about how to keep the lucrative business they have mounted, and in which our lives are a tod @ s. Parallel, has organized the Social Meeting Alternative to Oil, under the slogan "No blood for oil", brings together over sixty collective, platforms and social movements united by a common goal: expose the true face of large transnational sector, directly involved in wars, depredations to indigenous and ecological disaster by mobilizing and show that they are not welcome.

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