The End of Automobile Dependence: How Cities Are Moving Beyond Car-Based Planning

by Peter W.G. Newman and Jeffrey R. Kenworthy

Book Overview

Cities will continue to accommodate the automobile, but when cities are built around them, the quality of human and natural life declines. Current trends show great promise for future urban mobility systems that enable freedom and connection, but not dependence. We are experiencing the phenomenon of peak car use in many global cities at the same time that urban rail is thriving, central cities are revitalizing, and suburban sprawl is reversing. Walking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610914635
• ISBN13: 9781610914635
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 9.9"