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DESCRIPTION:No Friends?  Blame the Traffic\n \nDriven to Excess: Impacts of Cars on Our 
 Social Lives and What Can Be Done             \nSpeakers Joshua Hart and 
 Bruce Appleyard \nThursday, December 17th 6:30 PM, in the Santa Cruz High 
 School Auditorium.\n\nAdmission is free and open to the public.\n\nPeople 
 living on streets with heavy motor vehicle traffic are experiencing a 
 considerable deterioration of their local social lives according to Joshua 
 Hart, a former Santa Cruzan who recently completed research at the 
 University of the West of England.  Results suggest that residents on busy 
 streets have less than one quarter the number of local friends compared to 
 those living on similar streets with little traffic.\nJoshua Hart, UCSC 
 graduate, former PedExer and People Power director, is back in California 
 after three years in the UK, having obtained an MSc in Transport Planning 
 from UWE Bristol.   His research, Driven to Excess, replicated the famous 
 Appleyard study from 1969 that found social decay on streets with heavy 
 motor traffic, and was covered in the international media, including the 
 BBC, Guardian, Daily Mail, Express India and Tehran Times. He maintains a 
 blog at http://onthelevelblog.com/\n\nIn the 1960’s and 70’s, Berkeley 
 Professor of Urban Design Donald Appleyard conducted research in San 
 Francisco on neighborhood life and how it can be undermined by motor 
 vehicle traffic. His seminal work Livable Streets clearly presented the 
 power struggle between automobiles, residents, pedestrians and other users 
 of our streets, exposing the ill-effects of motor traffic on people, street 
 life and communities, including people’s ability to form local 
 friendships. \n\nBruce Appleyard has followed in his father’s footsteps 
 as a planning commissioner,\nurban designer, and transportation and land 
 use advisor.  He is currently a PhD candidate in UC Berkeley’s urban 
 planning program and is working to publish a 2nd edition of Livable 
 Streets.\n\nThe speakers will present contemporary evidence of automobile 
 impacts, best practices from places where livable streets have become a 
 priority, and ask the question- in today’s carbon-intensive world, are 
 there social benefits of a human- centered city that perhaps have been 
 overlooked?\nJoshua Hart concludes, “This study shows that the 
 deterioration of neighboring in this country may well be down to our own 
 travel habits.  We created this problem, and now we have a responsibility 
 to solve it.”\n\nFor logistics and details about the event, please 
 contact Carolyn Jett at (831) 425-0667 or greenways@peoplepowersc.org, For 
 advance interviews and inquiries regarding the research, please contact 
 Joshua Hart at velorution@yahoo.com or (415) 646-5143\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/11/18632254.php
SUMMARY:Driven to Excess: Impacts of Cars on Our Social Lives and What Can Be Done
LOCATION:Santa Cruz High School Auditorium 415 Walnut Avenue
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/11/18632254.php
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