The urban mobility community will fondly remember the unique social experiment staged by the City of Suwon, South Korea, in 2013 where, upon a proposal by ICLEI, an entire neighbourhood abandoned the car and adopted an ecomobile lifestyle for a whole month.
For the first time, Korea’s car-centered society witnessed how 4,300 residents collectively enjoyed the reclaiming of street space from cars for social and recreational use and the opportunity for children, the elderly and the physically impeded to move safely in the streets.
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