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Beyond the Automobile Age
Beyond Balanced Transport
At its opening, the automobile age was expected to produce an improved urban environment. Looking back a century later, it is hard to believe that people could ever have thought this way. The current situation is encapsulated by the title of David Banister’s 2005 book Unsustainable Transport, which catalogues the environmental problems created by autopia, including air pollution, traffic noise, accidents, degradation of landscapes by transport facilities, wastage of space and global warming from the burning of fossil fuels.1
These problems are all serious, and many have been recognized for decades. Local air pollution and the destruction caused by freeway building triggered the ‘freeway ...
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