Cittaslow

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Cittaslow (literally Slow City) is a movement founded in Italy in October of 1999. The inspiration of Cittaslow was the Slow Food organization. Cittaslow's goals include improving the quality of life in towns while resisting "the fast-lane, homogenized world so often seen in other cities throughout the world" -- as the official slowmovement.com description puts it. Celebrating and supporting diversity of culture and the specialties of a town and its hinterland are core Cittaslow values.

Cittaslow is part of a cultural trend known as the Slow movement.

Cittaslow is expanding outside Italy. As at 1 January 2006, national Cittaslow networks exist in Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom; towns and cities in other countries are working towards Cittaslow accreditation.

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[edit] Membership

Like Slow Food, Cittaslow is a membership organisation. Full membership of Cittaslow is only open to towns with a population under 50,000. To become eligible for membership, a town must normally score at least 50 percent in a self-assessment process against the set of Cittaslow goals, and then apply for admission to the appropriate Cittaslow national network. An annual membership fee is payable by towns.

Another category of Cittaslow membership, that of Cittaslow Supporter, was agreed during 2005 and is open to public bodies, businesses and towns that support the Cittaslow aims and goals but that are not eligible to become Cittaslow in their own right.

[edit] Slow Cities

[edit] List of Slow Cities in Australia

[edit] List of Slow Cities in Italy

[edit] List of Slow Cities in Austria

[edit] List of Slow Cities in the UK

[edit] List of Slow Cities in Germany

[edit] List of Slow Cities in Norway

[edit] List of Slow Cities in Spain

[edit] List of Slow Cities in Poland

[edit] List of Slow Cities in South Korea

Slow cities have been introduced not only in South Korea but in the whole of Asia for the first time.

[edit] Reference

  1. ^ http://news.sbs.co.kr/section_news/news_read.jsp?news_id=N1000348056 Slow cities for the first time as Asian nations. (아시아 최초로 '국제 슬로시티' 지정) 2007-12-10

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