CREATIVE CITY NEWSLETTER: NOVEMBER 2001

ISSUE 4: GROWTH

ISSUE IN FOCUS: Smart Growth
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Bohemian Index
CREATIVE CORNER: Slow Cities
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: Marquette County, MI
September 11: Creative City Participants Respond
Research and Public Policy Outline
Creative City Participants' Updated Agendas


CREATIVE CORNER: SLOW CITIES

Want to take it slow? Travel to Italy's 33 towns that have made a deliberate decision to remain "Slow Cities." They have banded together to "preserve Italy's languid pace" and resist Americanization. No Starbucks. No McDonald's. USA Today reports that Slow Cities is a spinoff from an 11-year-old anti-fast-food movement called "Slow Food." Italy's Slow Cities include Todi, Asti, Orvieto and Positano. (Coletta and Co., Smart City)

For an article related to the Slow City movement, see "At a Snail's Pace: Italian Cities Aim for La Dolce Vita."