參考資料：slow movement
http://www.slowmovement.com/資料來源：Slow Food Taipei 國際慢食台北會
「慢食會」由義大利人Carlo Petrini
1986年在Bra市發起推動後並迅速擴及全世界，以發行各類出版物及舉辦活動闡揚慢食之宗旨為「享用食物、宴饗、品酒之樂趣的宇宙觀，旨在喚回消費者對「生態美食」的認知，去保育可覺察到所見、所感覺、或所聞的那些旅遊的友善環境，推動高質美食生產，保護具技藝性的製造方法、及那些快要消失的各種肉類、蔬果類的栽種、烹調、與料理，並辦理品味教育期提高飲食文化標準」。
繼慢食運動後，意料之外，緩慢城市Slow Cities提倡優游生活接著成立，於
1999年10月由義大利托斯卡那省Chianti區的Greve市長Paolo Saturnini發起從享受飲食開始，提倡反急速的優游生活，又更與意大利市政聯盟合作，成立了「緩慢城市聯盟」﹐透過城市規劃和文化政策來保存當地特有的飲食和文化藝術傳統，其後在意大利有三十二個城市和克羅地亞的布爾托尼格拉均已正式申請加入共同創立『優游城市』。
「緩慢城市運動」遂成為迎刃釋解國際化所帶來的沖擊與保護歐洲小農經濟的力量，更多的城市擴大行人專用區並在廣場及公園種植更多植物。禁止汽車響號、街頭廣告、雜亂的電視天線和霓虹燈會被拆下。政府將集中使用可再生的能源，亦會引入環保運輸系統，並支持有機耕種和小規模食物生產。
Slow Cities are cities which:
1- implement an environmental policy designed to maintain and develop the characteristics of their surrounding area and urban fabric, placing the onus on recovery and reuse techniques
2- implement an infrastructural policy which is functional for the improvement, not the occupation, of the land
3- promote the use of technologies to improve the quality of the environment and the urban fabric
4- encourage the production and use of foodstuffs produced using natural, eco-compatible techniques, excluding transgenic products, and setting up, where necessary, presidia to safeguard and develop typical products currently in difficulty, in close collaboration with the Slow Food Ark project and wine and food Presidia
5- safeguard autocthonous production, rooted in culture and tradition, which contributes to the typification of an area, maintaining its modes and mores and promoting preferential occasions and spaces for direct contacts between consumers and quality producers and purveyors
6- promote the quality of hospitality as a real bond with the local community and its specific features, removing the physical and cultural obstacles which may jeopardize the complete, widespread use of a city's resources
7- promote awareness among all citizens, and not only among inside operators, that they live in a Slow City, with special attention to the of young people and schools through the systematic introduction of taste education.
