by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek · 21 Oct 2025 · 330pp · 85,349 words
because we all live in New York—one of the few US cities with enough density, bike lanes, and good transit to enable a comfortable car-free lifestyle—we can’t possibly understand the way “real” Americans live. “Besides,” people will say, “Americans have a love affair with cars. Good luck trying
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about the potential these changes represented for the movement to reduce car use in cities. “Is the world witnessing the wrenching, difficult birth of the car-free city?” we asked. “Or are we merely living in the brief moment before cities snap back into even deeper automobile dependence?” Mike Lydon, an urban
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Bogotá, since 1974, the tradition known as Ciclovía opens seventy-five miles of the city’s streets to bicyclists and pedestrians every Sunday, offering citizens car-free public space. In Oslo, incentives for driving electric vehicles have reduced air pollution in the city center by 35 percent. In Seoul, a highway removal
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get the kids to the dentist—to be looking for a paradigm shift. A lot of people aren’t in Europe on vacation, marveling at car-free streets, because a lot of people can’t afford to even think about taking a vacation at all. And in many parts of the world
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just building some bike lanes and patting yourself on the back. The stick gets harder when we talk about congestion pricing or traffic circulation or car-free or low-car city centers, but they’re necessary to really achieve the things that we want to achieve in terms of building great places
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Socialist Party who took office in 2014, this city of 2.16 million has created hundreds of kilometers of new bike lanes and huge new car-free green spaces along the River Seine, with a strong emphasis on improving public health and quality of life. A recent study found that in central
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, the more human and sustainable future. How can you be a part of it? Here are a few steps we can take together toward a car-free future. Learn to see cars. As big as they are, cars have become essentially invisible to us because they are such a deeply ingrained feature
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a few bags of groceries thinks those places would be better with cars. Talking about and sharing the relatable joy we find in societally approved car-free or car-light spaces like European cities or theme parks can be the beginning of that guy becoming less oblivious to the harm cars do
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-truck-hit-her. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT finally banning it in 2018: Jeffery C. Mays, “Central Park’s Scenic Drives Will Soon Be Car-Free,” New York Times, April 20, 2018, nytimes.com/2018/04/20/nyregion/central-park-car-ban.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “Just say
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.com.au/travel/europe/a-proper-ghent-ng-b881613941z. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT He was under police protection for three weeks: Tamsin Rutter, “Car-Free Belgium: Why Can’t Brussels Match Ghent’s Pedestrianised Vision?,” The Guardian, November 28, 2016, theguardian.com/cities/2016/nov/28
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/car-free-belgium-why-cant-brussels-match-ghents-pedestrianised-vision. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Cédéric De Clercq, a mobility: Cédéric De Clerq, interview with Doug
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.gent/en/mobility-ghent/cycling-policy. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT The impacts of Ghent’s traffic circulation plan: CoMoUK, “Shared Mobility and a Car-Free Centre in Ghent—a People Focussed Approach,” CoMoUK, January 2021, cdn.prod.website-files.com/6102564995f71c83fba14d54/618d2b5889c4361b1d79f42a_CoMoUK%20Mobility%20hubs_Ghent%20case%20study_Jan%202021
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TEXT “the best orchestral composer”: Carlton Reid, “How a Belgian Port City Inspired Birmingham’s Car-Free Ambitions,” The Guardian, January 20, 2020, theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/20/how-a-belgian-port-city-inspired-birminghams-car-free-ambitions. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “The dominant paradigm of our streets”: Meredith Glaser, interview
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until the early twentieth century most of this area was still farmland, so between that and the fact that piety had temporarily rendered the area car-free I was almost able to delude myself into thinking it was the nineteenth century. For the first time since leaving College Point I also saw
by Lonely Planet · 21 Oct 2019 · 201pp · 33,620 words
-trip from historical Arnhem and cycle across Hoge Veluwe National Park to admire Van Goghs at the Kröller-Müller Museum. • Explore Groningen’s cosy and car-free city centre, where bars don’t have a closing time and the countryside is just a bike ride away. © RON BUIST / 500PX Last daylight falls
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farmstay for accommodation, then keep the family’s legs moving by cycling, hiking and swimming in Weissensee. Make time for a visit to Werfenweng: a car-free, playground-rich lakeside town with green vehicles for visitors. Vienna has a large number of playgrounds, some fantastic museums for children and the splendid Schloss
by Lonely Planet · 26 Oct 2021 · 147pp · 33,578 words
-trip from historical Arnhem and cycle across Hoge Veluwe National Park to admire Van Goghs at the Kröller-Müller Museum. • Explore Groningen’s cosy and car-free city centre, where bars don’t have a closing time and the countryside is just a bike ride away. © RON BUIST / 500PX Last daylight falls
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farmstay for accommodation, then keep the family’s legs moving by cycling, hiking and swimming in Weissensee. Make time for a visit to Werfenweng: a car-free, playground-rich lakeside town with green vehicles for visitors. Vienna has a large number of playgrounds, some fantastic museums for children and the splendid Schloss
by Stephen O'Shea · 21 Feb 2017 · 322pp · 92,769 words
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