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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 has expanded broadly beyond Italy. By 2006, national Cittaslow networks existed in Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom; By mid-2009, fourteen countries have at least one officially accredited Cittaslow community. In July, 2009, the small seaside village of Cowichan Bay ([1]), on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada became Canada's and North America's first Cittaslow town.

1 Membership
2 Slow Cities
3 References
4 External links

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.

Slow Cities

List of Slow Cities in Australia

List of Slow Cities in Austria

Enns, Upper Austria

List of Slow Cities in Canada

List of Slow Cities in Denmark

Svendborg, Fyn

List of Slow Cities in Germany

Hersbruck, Bavaria
Waldkirch, Baden-Württemberg
Überlingen, Baden-Württemberg
Schwarzenbruck, Bavaria
Lüdinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Marihn, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Deidesheim, Rheinland-Pfalz
Wirsberg, Bavaria
Nördlingen, Bavaria
Bad Schussenried, Baden-Württemberg

List of Slow Cities in Italy

List of Slow Cities in The Netherlands

Midden-Delfland

List of Slow Cities in Norway

List of Slow Cities in Poland

List of Slow Cities in Spain

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.

Cheongsan Island, Wando, South Jeolla Province
Jeungdo, Sinan County, South Jeolla Province
Cheongpyeong town of Damyang , South Jeolla
Akyang town of Hadong,South Gyungnam

Province^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b http://www.cittaslow.org.au/ Cittaslow.org.au
^ 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

External links

Cittaslow in Italy. Homepage of the Cittaslow movement (in Italian)

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