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45.523611, -122.675000: The city of Portland has been chosen to host the 2008 Towards Carfree Cities conference. The conference is a project of the World Carfree Network and it aims to “bring together people who are promoting practical alternatives to car dependence.”

Portland will be the first U.S. city to ever hold the conference.

Past conferences have been held in Lyon, Timisoara (Romania), Prague, Berlin, Budapest and Bogota. The 2007 conference will be held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Check out Portland Chosen for World Car-Free Day on Platial.com, originally posted by jason.

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