CAR-FREE CITIES - MYTH OR POSSIBILITY? EXPLORING THE BOUNDARIES OF SUSTAINABLE URBAN TRANSPORT
The paper uses case-study material from a number of North European and UK cities to explore the types of initiatives that are being considered under the 'car-free city' movement. These are analysed using models of radical and conservative sustainable development. The paper suggests that even in municipalities actively claiming to be pursuing a 'green' agenda, only a very conservative interpretation of sustainable development is being implemented. This can, in part, be explained by exploring the changing role and function of the local state in late-modern society and, in particular, its heightened role in pursuing local economic development within a global marketplace. This, it is argued, places substantial limitations on the nature and extent of sustainable urban transport policies that are being, and can be, implemented, with important social and environmental consequences. (A)
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Corporate Authors:
MCB University Press Limited
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Authors:
- McKenzie, C
- Publication Date: 1999
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 4-10
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Serial:
- World Transport Policy & Practice
- Volume: 5
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Eco-Logica Limited
- ISSN: 1352-7614
- Serial URL: https://www.worldtransportjournal.org/journal
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Publication flags:
Open Access (libre)
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Environment; Networks; Policy; Urban areas
- Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation networks
- Geographic Terms: Europe; United Kingdom
- ITRD Terms: 2455: Environment; 8034: Europe; 1054: Network (traffic); 173: Policy; 8119: United Kingdom; 313: Urban area
- Subject Areas: Policy;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00764491
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- Files: ITRD, ATRI
- Created Date: May 28 1999 12:00AM