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

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    Authors
    Kenworthy, Jeffrey
    Newman, Peter
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Book
    
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    Kenworthy, J. and Newman, P. 2015. The End of Automobile Dependence: How Cities are Moving Beyond Car-Based Planning. Washington DC: Island Press.
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    http://islandpress.org/book/the-end-of-automobile-dependence#sthash.OIyHpZyc.dpuf
    ISBN
    9781610914628
    School
    Sustainability Policy Institute
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26342
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    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 and cycling are growing in many cities, along with ubiquitous bike sharing schemes, which have contributed to new investment and vitality in central cities including Melbourne, Seattle, Chicago, and New York. We are thus in a new era that has come much faster than global transportation experts Peter Newman and Jeffrey Kenworthy had predicted: the end of automobile dependence. In The End of Automobile Dependence, Newman and Kenworthy look at how we can accelerate a planning approach to designing urban environments that can function reliably and conveniently on alternative modes, with a refined and more civilized automobile playing a very much reduced and manageable role in urban transportation. The authors examine the rise and fall of automobile dependence using updated data on 44 global cities to better understand how to facilitate and guide cities to the most productive and sustainable outcomes. This is the final volume in a trilogy by Newman and Kenworthy on automobile dependence (Cities and Automobile Dependence in 1989 and Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence in 1999). Like all good trilogies this one shows the rise of an empire, in this case that of the automobile, the peak of its power, and the decline of that empire.

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