text: In Vauban, Germany they have a suburb with nearly 5,500 residents that live car-free! These people try to keep their environment as clean as possible. In the article "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal she said "Automobiles are linchpin of suburbs, where middle-class families from Chicago to Shanghai tend to make their homes..." This meaning that to many people are relying on cars and need to stop to help us, to help earth.    If you ask a student what their favorite season is, chances are they are going to say summer. Summer to children is a time of relaxation and stress-relief from their ten hardworking months of schooling. However, schools often times leave them a project to accomplish over the summer to keep the subjects learned in their mind over the summer. It is for that goal I say that those summer projects should be teacher-designed projects, as opposed to student-designed projects, because teacher-designed projects are better organized, are time-managment friendly, and are easier on the teachers when grading.