Talk:Cittaslow

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Contents 1 Towns / Cities 2 "slow towns" 3 What makes a "slow city"? 4 Bias in the use of the label "Americanization"

[edit] Towns / Cities

Regarding the British towns being referred to as cities - I know the set phrase is "Slow Cities" but presumably if a town of 50 people joined the scheme it would be described as a city? I guess my point is that the scheme is, by nature, open to ridicule from some quarters anyway, and to describe somewhere like Aylsham as a city is in danger of sounding very silly indeed. Do people in Britain really refer to them as "Slow Cities"? I doubt it. Bretonbanquet 17:53, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

'fraid we do call them Cittaslow or 'Slow Cities'. "Citta" in Italian can apply equally validly to a town or to a city - it has the sense of 'Municipality'. And if you join a club, you have to be happy with the name of the club you apply to join, eh? Graeme Kidd, president of Cittaslow UK.

[edit] "slow towns"

Why does it say that cittaslow literally translates to 'slow towns.' The word citta' directly translates to city, not town. A town would be called a paese, and a city a citta'. I'm going to change this because it is wrong. ABart26 23:40, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

An urban development with less than 50,000 inhabitants (one of Cittaslow's membership requirements) is more accurately classified as a town rather than a city. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.196.108.96 (talk) 05:01, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What makes a "slow city"?

This article is very short on information; mainly just a list of cities with scant details on what the selection criteria are. Pimlottc 13:52, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bias in the use of the label "Americanization"

I removed the biased reference to "Americanization" that was inserted into the description of the slow cities movement and re-implemented the official description used from their website (http://www.slowmovement.com/slow_cities.php), that simply talks of the movement as a reaction against current global business practices. The use of the label "Americanization" is a blatant example of personal bias, which in context to the current state of global business practices, is not an appropriate description of what the slow cities movement and its goals are about. Describing current global business as being more American than Chinese, for example, is unjustified.

Money and the love of it knows no flags, IMHO. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.219.147.84 (talk) 08:44, 5 December 2007 (UTC)