Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Car free in the U.S.

(note that I am not adamantly "against" cars. I do believe that if you can have that "20 minute" community that you can reduce the "need" for cars significantly. And that optimal mobility generally isn't automobile-based, on a mass scale, although it can be for many people in terms of the scale of an individual household. But it's all about the integration of land use and transportation planning in ways that support transit, walking, and bicycling.)

Yesterday's New York Times article on the car free development of Vauban ("In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars") led the Times to ask six experts--

Witold Rybczynski, professor of urbanism
D.J. Waldie, author of “Holy Land”
Dolores Hayden, professor of architecture
Christopher B. Leinberger, real estate developer and author
J.H. Crawford, author of “Carfree Cities”
Marc Schlossberg, professor of public policy

to comment about the possibilities for such in the U.S. See "Car-Free in America?"

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