I guess we know all this, but it bears repeating.
How Copenhagen rejected 1960s modernist 'utopia'
Research on global transport released in 2015 found that building new roads (pdf) does little more than breed more cars, increase traffic and impact residents’ health and wellbeing. The dystopian outcomes of designing cities for cars can be seen in the likes of Stockholm and Birmingham.
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Next stop for Gehl is Moscow, where he is returning to check up on a number of public space projects that began in 2011. He talks of the “efficient democracy” that allows leaders to implement changes almost overnight in places such as Russia and America – removing on-street parking, widening pavements and creating public squares: “If the mayor says ‘car parking must go’, you come back two weeks later and it’s gone.”
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