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It is urgently necessary nowadays to build and to promote new models of urbanism less car-dependant that can allow one to choose freely his mode of transportation. Therefore there is a need to think about new systems of urban planning, but also to think about possibilities to convert existing places into carfree areas. Over the [...]
A Diet Recommended by Carbusters
Obesity is a growing problem and it may keep on growing if nothing is done to fight it. Car culture plays a role in this phenomenon with drivers and passengers having unhealthy diets and lacking physical activity. This is another reason to promote new models of urban planning and transportation. We [...]
“If you were to design the ultimate system, you would have mass transit be free and charge an enormous amount for cars.” Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York.
We are standing at a crossroad: in order to reduce our oil dependency and make our cities climate smart, we have to change our ways of traveling. It [...]
Public transport is essential to the quality of life of its passengers, both as a means to move around but also to achieve a sustainable environment. Hans-Liudger Dienel, Director of the Nexus Institute for Cooperation Management in Berlin, Germany, and co-editor of Public Transport and its Users: The Passenger’s Perspective in Planning and Customer Care [...]
Liberating oneself from false belief may be one of the most powerful freedoms. It is also something which carfree cities advocates should be used to doing: escaping from the myth that cars are necessary for movement opens a whole new world of possibilities and makes many otherwise obscured truths evident.
Can eco-towns stop the sprawling suburbs? Urban sprawl is a modern phenomenon most prominent in the United States and spreading into parts of Europe, it has many consequences which include the rising carbon emissions from modern consuming habits such private car use.
Climate change is one of the major challenges being faced by mankind in the 21st century. The dramatic effects of climate change are already being felt and include wide-spread melting of glaciers and ice caps, rising sea levels, changes in rainfall patterns, heat-waves and extreme weather events. Climate experts are warning that future effects will [...]
What do the cities of Lusaka (Zambia), Manila (Philippines), Hanoi (Vietnam), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Kathmandu (Nepal), and Bangalore (India) have in common?
Visually different as they are in many respects, any attempt to move about the streets makes it clear that pedestrians are not valued, and that the tiny elite minority in cars – or in some cases, the majority on motorbikes – rule the streets.
In Groningen, the Netherlands’ sixth largest city, the main form of transport is the bicycle.
The city is famous for having the highest percentage of bicycle usage in the world. How has Groningen done it? Cycling in Groningen, and indeed much of the Netherlands, is just the norm.
Models of high-density, largely carfree urban development are being achieved without fanfare in Guangzhou, China.
This is an updated and edited version of the article Sustainable China by Karl Fjellstrom. He takes us on a tour through a place which is setting the standard for sustainable transportation and liveability in towns and cities across this rapidly developing nation. Here we see that elements of globalisation – industrialisation, consumption, population growth, and mass-movement of people – can be successfully balanced to create places with sustainability, liveability, sociability and profitability.
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