{"id":1613,"date":"2014-07-28T11:49:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T08:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2014-07-28T11:49:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T08:49:39","slug":"hamburg-announces-plans-to-become-a-car-free-city-within-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"Hamburg Announces Plans to Become a Car-Free City Within 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamburg<\/a>\u00a0is currently working on a plan that would eliminate the need for cars within the next 15-20 years, making the city a greener, healthier and more pleasant place to live. The city\u2019s proposed\u00a0Gr\u00fcnes Netz<\/a>, or \u201cGreen Network\u201d will create pedestrian and cycle paths to connect the city\u2019s existing, substantial green spaces, and provide safe, car-free commuter routes for all residents.<\/p>\n

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Hamburg\u2019s Green Network will be constructed over the next 15-20 years, and it will create car-free paths between all major parks, playgrounds, community gardens, and cemeteries in Hamburg. The resulting network will cover 40% of Germany\u2019s second-largest city, and it should enable commuters and tourists alike to navigate the once-car-dependent city entirely by\u00a0bicycle<\/a>\u00a0and on foot.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0goals of the Green Network<\/a>\u00a0are multiple. On one end, Hamburg recognizes the need to change in the face of global warming; in the past 60 years they city\u2019s median temperature has increased by\u00a01.2 degrees Celsius to 9 degrees Celsius<\/a>, and sea levels have risen by 20 centimeters\u2014and they\u2019re expected to increase another 30 centimeters by 2100. While a car-free city will undoubtedly do much to lower C02 emissions, the expanded green spaces that will fall along the new, green paths will also help to alleviate flooding in the event of heavy rainfall or superstorms.<\/p>\n

Additionally, such a network will contribute to the overall health of the city and its inhabitants.\u00a0The Guardian<\/a>\u00a0explained that Hamburg \u201cenvisions a network that doesn\u2019t just help residents get from point A to point B in a sustainable fashion,\u201d with city spokesperson Angelika Fritsch adding \u201cIt will offer people opportunities to hike, swim, do water sports, enjoy picnics and restaurants, experience calm and watch nature and wildlife right in the city. That reduces the need to take the car for weekend outings outside the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamburg\u2019s Green Network is part of a growing trend, particularly within Europe, to create comprehensive cycle networks that encompass not only city centers and ring-roads, but that also connect the city with the suburbs.\u00a0Copenhagen<\/a>\u00a0has undertaken perhaps the most ambitious of these plans with the construction of\u00a026 bicycle \u201csuperhighways,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0that extend out from the city center as part of the city\u2019s goal to become carbon neutral by 2050.
\nRead more:\u00a0Hamburg Announces Plans to Become a Car-Free City Within 20 Years | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hamburg\u00a0is currently working on a plan that would eliminate the need for cars within the next 15-20 years, making the city a greener, healthier and more pleasant place to live. The city\u2019s proposed\u00a0Gr\u00fcnes Netz, or \u201cGreen Network\u201d will create pedestrian and cycle paths to connect the city\u2019s existing, substantial green spaces, and provide safe, car-free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[151,235,240,167,237,146],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staliy-rozvitok","tag-veloinfrastruktura","tag-energozberezhennya","tag-misto-bez-avtomobiliv","tag-misto-dlya-lyudey","tag-misto-maybutnogo","tag-pishohidniy-prostir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}