View of Vauban

Vauban is a new carfree neighborhood of 5000 inhabitants and 600 jobs 4km to the south of the town center in Freiburg, Germany. It was built as "a sustainable model district" on the site of a former French military base. New Carfree neighborhood in Freiburg (photo by Forum Vauban) This work is copyrighted. ... New Carfree neighborhood in Freiburg (photo by Forum Vauban) This work is copyrighted. ... Venice (J.H. Crawford) Auto-free zones are also known as car-free zones and pedestrianised zones. ... Freiburg city from Schlossberg Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the Breisgau region, on the western edge of the southern Black Forest (in German language: Schwarzwald) with about 200,000 inhabitants. ...

Construction was begun in the mid-1990s, and by the beginning of 2001, 2000 people had moved in. 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Sustainable building

All houses are built to a low energy consumption standard, with 100 units designed to use only passive heating to meet or exceed their heating requirements). Other buildings are heated by a combined heat and power station buring wood chips, while many of the buildings have Solar collectors or photovoltaic cells. Cogeneration (also combined heat and power or CHP) is the use of a power station to simultaneously generate both heat and electricity. ... Solar Panel made by BP Solar The solar panels (photovoltaic arrays) on this small yacht at sea can charge the 12 V batteries at up to 9 Amps in full, direct sunlight. ... A solar cell, or photovoltaic cell, is a semiconductor device consisting of a large-area p-n junction diode, which, in the presence of sunlight is capable of generating usable electrical energy. ...

Transport

Vauban is connected to the town center by a tramway, which is also within 15 minutes by bicycle, while are car sharing scheme is in operation. A modern tram in the Töölö district of Helsinki, Finland a historic postcard showing electric-powered trolley streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank J. Sprague successfully demonstrated his new system on the hills in 1888 For modern innovations aimed at increasing the capacity and speed of tramway systems, see... This racing bicycle is built using lightweight, shaped aluminum tubing and carbon fiber stays and forks. ...

Around 40% of the households have agreed to live without their own cars, while others have to leave their vehicles in at the edge of the development. Consequently most streets are pedestrian friendly and suitable for kids to play, and have a 5km/hour speed limit. A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ...

History of the site

The site was originally developed as a military base in 1936, and was occupied after World War II by the French forces occupying the region. The military finally left in 1992. 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• Green building
• sustainable design
• sustainable development
• List of carfree places

Green building is the practice of: increasing the efficiency with which buildings and their sites use and harvest energy, water, and materials, and reducing building impacts on human health and the environment, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal — the complete building life cycle. ... Sustainable design is the art of producing objects using only renewable resources, and which themselves, in operation, deplete only renewable resources. ... Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, according to Our Common Future, a 1987 report from the UN. One of the factors which sustainable development must overcome is environmental degradation. ... The main square of Siena, Italy This is a list of noteworthy carfree areas. ...

External link

• Vauban Information