The Slow Cities program adopted by over 30 towns throughout Italy promotes environmental recovery, reduced noise pollution, awareness and support of the local economy, and strives for basic conditions of wellbeing for a given city’s inhabitants.

Imagine a city without car alarms, prominent tv aerials, and neon signs. Those things are outlawed in Slow Cities. Instead, these cities promote environmental restoration, build more and greener spaces for public gathering, encourage consumption of locally-grown foods, and promote the work of local artisans.

As members of this government-run program, Slow Cities pledge, among other things , to implement environmental policies that maintain and develop the characteristics of their surrounding area and urban fabric, placing the onus on recovery and reuse techniques, to encourage the production and use of foodstuffs produced using natural, eco-compatible techniques, and to promote and protect production rooted in culture and tradition, which contributes to the typification of a geographic area.

Meanwhile inhabitants of slow cities enjoy stronger community ties, 'taste education' in schools and rising property values.

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