# Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Transport

**Published by:** [The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman](https://nickgrossman.xyz/)
**Published on:** 2008-06-17
**Categories:** cities, portland
**URL:** https://nickgrossman.xyz/big-ideas-for-a-small-planet-transport

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The opening keynote speaker at the Towards Carfree Cities conference is Mia Birk, from a bike/ped planning firm here in Portland called Alta Design. Check out the short episode of "Big Ideas for a Small Planet," above, featuring Mia talking about the pedestrian & bicycle planning movement in Portland -- she's very eloquent and the makes the argument for bike- and pedestrian-friendly cities in a very accessible way.

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