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?"
Labels: sustainable land use and resource planning, transit, transportation planning
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