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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan

autonomous vehicles, bike sharing, Boris Johnson, business cycle, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, clean water, congestion charging, congestion pricing, Cornelius Vanderbilt, crowdsourcing, digital map, Donald Shoup, edge city, Edward Glaeser, en.wikipedia.org, Enrique Peñalosa, fixed-gear, gentrification, high-speed rail, Hyperloop, Induced demand, Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford, Loma Prieta earthquake, Lyft, megaproject, New Urbanism, off-the-grid, place-making, self-driving car, sharing economy, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the High Line, transportation-network company, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, walkable city, white flight, Works Progress Administration, Zipcar

In 2011, the first year, eighteen neighborhoods held events; by 2013, the number had increased to twenty-four neighborhoods. Decades from now these car-free events should be as much a tradition as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the New York City Marathon. While we accomplished a lot with paint and partnerships to make changes quickly and cheaply, we also set up new administrative processes that put the power of public space and its long-term management more directly into the hands of communities. The application program for these neighborhood car-free events reflected the model of our plaza program. It wasn’t about simple empowerment—letting people ask for a plaza or a car-free street—it was necessary to establish a community management plan to keep the new spaces and events alive, and to maintain and help pay for them.

It could be an exercise in social integration.” Today, Ciclovía’s route runs more than seventy miles and attracts more than one million people to the streets every Sunday and holiday. Car-free or “open streets” events have spread around the world, from Los Angeles and Minneapolis, to Johannesburg and several cities in India, in cities with populations ranging from twenty thousand to twenty million. Peñalosa says that the automotive dominance is instantly tamed by car-free events as people have an opportunity to connect again with their streets: “All of a sudden people see that the streets are public space and belong to all of us, and things start clicking into other possibilities.”

See Fordham Road Grand Concourse bike lane, 158 Moses’s “urban renewal” projects, 16 Southern Boulevard, traffic fatalities, 220 Bronx Hub, 106 Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, 15 Brooklyn Barclays Center, 278 Bedford Avenue bike lane, 163, 164 Flatbush Avenue, 75 Fourth Avenue, 59 Gowanus Expressway, 59 Grand Army Plaza, 164, 165 Kent Avenue bike lane, 144, 162–64 Montague Street, car-free event, 120–21 Moses’s “urban renewal” projects, 16 New Lots Avenue plaza, 106 Nostrand Avenue, 75 Ocean Parkway, 152–53 Pearl Street plaza, 80–82, 81, 254 Prospect Park West, speeding on, 164–65, 169, 171–72 Prospect Park West bike lane. See Prospect Park West bike lane Brooklyn Bridge, 44, 119, 144, 266, 271–72 Brooklyn Heights bike-share dock, 197 car-free streets, 120–21 Brooklyn Navy Yard, 189 Brooklyn Nets, 168 Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 153 murals, 141, 142 Brooklyn Spoke, 198 Broome Street, 11 Bruni, Frank, 177 Bryant Park, 87 Burden, Amanda, 83 Burying highways, 65–66 Buses, 233–49 Bogotá’s TransMilenio, 234–35 Curitiba, Brazil, 234, 235 Fordham Road, 239, 248, 255 Second Avenue, 240, 248, 252 34th Street, 237–38, 240–41, 244–45 Bus rapid transit (BRT), 234–35 Byrne, David, 119, 136–37, 137, 180–81 Byron, Joan, 236 C Cairo, Tahrir Square, 3 Camden High Street (London), 50 Canal Street, 11 Cantor, Dan, 238 Cars autocentric view, 64–65 orientating streets toward people vs., 18–21 Car2Go, 284–85 Carbon footprint, of New York City, xiii, 23–25 Car-free events, 122–24 Bogotá’s Ciclovía, 116–18 Summer Streets, 118–19, 122–23 Weekend Walks, 123 Car lane widths, 49–55 Carmageddon, 106 Caro, Robert, 18 Car ownership, 26–28, 45 young people and, 183–84 Carpool lanes, 47–49 Car rentals, 184 Car sharing, 26, 183–84, 284 Central Park, 117, 146, 164 Champs-Élysées, 3 Chase Bank, 124 Chattanooga, bike share, 187–88 Chelsea Market, 83 Cheonggyecheon Creek, 65–66 Cherry Street, 135 Chicago bike lanes, xvi, 152 Dearborn Avenue, 152 China Beijing, biking, 288–89 Hangzhou, bike share, 204 infrastructure investment, 266 Chinatown (New York City), 75 Grand Street bike lane, 159, 160–61, 162, 190 Ciclovía, 116–18 Citibank, 187, 201 Citi Bikes, 179–205, 261, 292 2009 New York City study, 185, 186 Alta and PBSC and, 186–89, 200 community outreach, 191–92, 196 critics of, 196–98, 200–202 Jon Stewart’s routine, 179–80, 202 launch of, 180–82, 183, 190, 191, 197 location siting and stations, 191–98, 195, 203 locking system, 186, 198, 200 Petrosino Square sketch-ins, 181, 181 safety concerns, 190–91, 214, 221–23 sponsorship of, 185, 187 Climate change, 278, 280 Clinton, Bill, xii Clinton Street, 217 Colbert, Stephen, 198, 202 Colbert Report, The (TV show), 198, 202 Colombia.


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Mobility: A New Urban Design and Transport Planning Philosophy for a Sustainable Future by John Whitelegg

active transport: walking or cycling, Berlin Wall, British Empire, car-free, carbon tax, conceptual framework, congestion charging, congestion pricing, corporate social responsibility, Crossrail, decarbonisation, Donald Shoup, energy transition, eurozone crisis, glass ceiling, high-speed rail, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), megacity, meta-analysis, negative emissions, New Urbanism, peak oil, post-industrial society, price elasticity of demand, price mechanism, Right to Buy, smart cities, telepresence, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Spirit Level, transit-oriented development, urban planning, urban sprawl

This can be compared with dreadful, dirty, diesel operated services in the UK using vehicles that are 40 years old e.g. the Lancaster- Morecambe branch line serving a population of approximately 100,000. There is no prospect of new investment on this line. Freiburg is well known for its highly acclaimed car-free residential areas of Vauban and Rieselfeld (Folleta and Field, 2011). Vauban is not 100% car free but has very low levels of car ownership (160 cars per 1000 residents) and low levels of car use, 16% of all trips are by car. Residents must sign a legal agreement not to own a car or pay for a parking space in a shared public garage at a cost of 18,500-22,500 Euros (Foletta and Field, 2011).

Both areas are served by tram, both have exceptionally high energy efficient homes and photo voltaic installations and both are car-reduced in the sense that car free living is encouraged and “Aufenthaltsqualitaet in öffentlichen Raum” is a design principle that is actually implemented. The English translation of this concept would be “the quality of the public realm that encourages residents to spend time in that realm.” As noted earlier the concept has very little resonance with thinking in the UK. The centre of Freiburg is almost totally car-free and in a way that is significantly different to the pedestrian areas of York or Lancaster or Oxford where cars and lorries frequently invade the pedestrian areas and destroy the “Aufenthaltsqualitaet.”

A vehicle driving down a residential street at 40 mph packs more destructive energy than a bullet.” Roberts provides evidence that in circumstances where traffic volumes fell e.g. in the Middle East oil crises of 1974 and 1979 child pedestrian deaths fell. In New Zealand between 1975 and 1980 child pedestrian deaths fell by 46% in response to car free days and a weekend ban on petrol sales “but when the oil started flowing and traffic volume resumed its upward trajectory, the number of children killed and injured on the roads increased along with it…when petrol prices rise fewer children die; when they fall, more children die.” The World Health Organisation (WHO, 2004, page 7) recommends against the use of the word “accident.”


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Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality by Melissa Bruntlett, Chris Bruntlett

"World Economic Forum" Davos, active transport: walking or cycling, ASML, autonomous vehicles, bike sharing, car-free, crowdsourcing, en.wikipedia.org, fixed-gear, Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao, intermodal, Jones Act, Loma Prieta earthquake, megacity, new economy, oil shale / tar sands, safety bicycle, side project, Silicon Valley, Skype, smart cities, starchitect, Stop de Kindermoord, the built environment, the High Line, transit-oriented development, urban planning, urban renewal, wikimedia commons

Thanks to the bike–train combination, Lennart and Ruth are perfectly mobile despite being car-free, traveling to four or five cities around the country on a typical week. Even in a smaller town like Leiden, the mobility options and quality of life afforded to them exceed those of most other places in the world. “It’s the little things. On a day-to-day basis, you don’t really notice it that much,” says Nout. “But noise is one of the biggest things. I’d never realized how quiet it is here. The city center is car-free, which makes it so peaceful and quiet.” Places such as Leiden are fairly typical of the Dutch experience, perhaps more so than the urban centers of Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and Utrecht.

Those five weeks were nothing short of life changing as we pedaled along Rotterdam’s stunning Erasmus Bridge and the Maastunnel, Eindhoven’s awesome Hovenring and Van Gogh Path, Amsterdam’s bustling Vondelpark and Rijksmuseum, Utrecht’s vibrant Vredenburg and Biltstraat, and Groningen’s impressive “smart routes” and car-free city center. We also had the immense privilege of sitting down with many local experts, such as the Urban Cycling Institute’s Meredith Glaser, Dutch cycling ambassador Mark Wagenbuur, Cycling Cities: The European Experience co-authors Ruth Oldenziel and Frank Veraart, and the University of Amsterdam’s own “Fietsprofessor” Marco te Brömmelstroet.

But we have found that making most trips on foot or bike has led to very meaningful conversations with our children, because we focus more on them and not on what is happening through a windshield. It is an outcome we never could have anticipated, but we have a better understanding of their experiences and developing personalities, simply because of the human scale at which we travel through Vancouver. At the end of the day, our family doesn’t identify ourselves as “car-free,” nor are we stubborn radicals determined to save the world. We chose simple means—walking or cycling—for the majority of our daily trips because they are the most practical, efficient, and enjoyable ways to get from A to B. More families like ours will choose these healthier, happier means once our cities make them not just safe and convenient, but also delightful.


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Straphanger by Taras Grescoe

active transport: walking or cycling, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, airport security, Albert Einstein, big-box store, bike sharing, Boeing 747, Boris Johnson, British Empire, call centre, car-free, carbon credits, carbon footprint, carbon tax, City Beautiful movement, classic study, company town, congestion charging, congestion pricing, Cornelius Vanderbilt, correlation does not imply causation, David Brooks, deindustrialization, Donald Shoup, East Village, edge city, Enrique Peñalosa, extreme commuting, financial deregulation, fixed-gear, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Great Leap Forward, high-speed rail, housing crisis, hydraulic fracturing, indoor plumbing, intermodal, invisible hand, it's over 9,000, Jane Jacobs, Japanese asset price bubble, jitney, Joan Didion, Kickstarter, Kitchen Debate, laissez-faire capitalism, Marshall McLuhan, mass immigration, McMansion, megacity, megaproject, messenger bag, mortgage tax deduction, Network effects, New Urbanism, obamacare, oil shale / tar sands, oil shock, Own Your Own Home, parking minimums, peak oil, pension reform, Peter Calthorpe, Ponzi scheme, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, sensible shoes, Silicon Valley, Skype, streetcar suburb, subprime mortgage crisis, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the High Line, transit-oriented development, union organizing, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, walkable city, white flight, working poor, young professional, Zipcar

“Strictly speaking,” said Delleske, “we are not a car-free district. People with cars are still welcome, but they have to buy a parking space when they move in.” Nine solar-powered parking lots are dotted throughout Vauban, most of them less than a 300-yard walk from apartments. At €17,500, however, a parking space is expensive; most new residents decline the option, and a solid majority have chosen to sell their cars. “We have reduced car use by seventy percent. Over two-thirds of all trips are now made by bicycle,” he said. What were the advantages, I asked Delleske, to living car-free? “The main one is cost. I save easily four hundred euros a month by not owning a car.

At once cocoon and workhorse, it ingeniously reconciles two contradictory human impulses: the desire for home and security and the longing to roam and experience the world. Crucial for its load-carrying capacity in remote and rural areas, irreplaceable for many of its functions in cities, it is too useful an invention to ever completely vanish. Indeed, thanks to generations of car-centered development, living a car-free life—particularly for those raising young children—can seem like an impossible dream. Given the way most metropolitan areas are currently configured, calling for a ban on cars may seem tantamount to urging people to trade their refrigerators for iceboxes, or swap their vacuum cleaners for brooms.

On Pacific Avenue, shirtless dudes held aloft cardboard signs hawking off-street parking in vacant lots and front yards for twenty-five bucks. It took me half the morning to make the trip, and most of the lunch hour to find a parking space. The ultimate goal of all this motorized suffering, amazingly enough, was a casual stroll with other human beings along a car-free boardwalk. As I became intimately acquainted with the bumper of the Mazda ahead of me on the I-10 all the way back to my hotel, I heard the traffic woman on the AM station wonder aloud: “Where are those hovercars they promised us?” Don’t hold your breath. A driver in Los Angeles spends an average of 72 hours delayed in traffic annually, the equivalent of almost two full weeks of work.


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Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives by Chris Bruntlett, Melissa Bruntlett

15-minute city, An Inconvenient Truth, autonomous vehicles, bike sharing, BIPOC, car-free, coronavirus, COVID-19, emotional labour, en.wikipedia.org, global pandemic, green new deal, Jane Jacobs, lockdown, Lyft, microplastics / micro fibres, New Urbanism, post-work, RAND corporation, ride hailing / ride sharing, self-driving car, social distancing, streetcar suburb, the built environment, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, urban planning, white flight, working-age population, World Values Survey

It’s about refusing to sacrifice vast amounts of the public realm to the private automobile; instead reserving space for commerce, community, and social connection. The ubiquitous bicycles are simply a by-product of that larger process; a tool to achieve the end goal of what policy makers call an autoluw (low-car or nearly car-free) city. At the same time, while we had been so focused on communicating the myriad benefits of cycling, it became clear that although not the stated intention of these transport policies, the improvements to social and emotional well-being resulting from decisions play—rather discreetly—a huge role in improving the livability of cities.

This actually amplifies our experience of the stress, making it more abrasive to our system. When asked how urban planners can address the global mental health crisis, Mazumder pulls no punches: “Primarily, we need to eliminate the threat that cars pose. Whether that’s through traffic calming or car-free streets, that’s the first thing I would target.” From there, he points to high-quality infrastructure that buffers against traffic, as well as increasing access to restorative green space, opportunities for social connection, and developing a sense of community and cohesion. Mazumder, who identifies as a racialized person, also believes it is important to recognize that good infrastructure and access to nature alone won’t mitigate the stress of the city for everyone.

Soon, individual restaurants were turning over a few hundred euros per table per night, and the value of outdoor commerce became abundantly clear to everyone. Word spread up and down the Markt, and the remaining business owners approached the City to demand the same agreement. The rest is history, and Delft’s figurative “living room” became permanently car free. Ironically, one of the first events to take advantage of the fully reclaimed square in the spring of 2004 was the Delftse Autosalon (Delft Motor Show); a now-annual event that attracts automotive dealerships and 10,000 visitors from across the region. Today the square is bustling with commerce, community, and connection: tourists taking selfies in front of the New Church, children running around and playing tag, and patrons packed on the patios for dinner and drinks.


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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery

2013 Report for America's Infrastructure - American Society of Civil Engineers - 19 March 2013, Abraham Maslow, accelerated depreciation, agricultural Revolution, American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card, Apollo 11, behavioural economics, Bernie Madoff, Boeing 747, British Empire, Buckminster Fuller, car-free, carbon credits, carbon footprint, centre right, City Beautiful movement, clean water, congestion charging, correlation does not imply causation, data science, Donald Shoup, East Village, edge city, energy security, Enrique Peñalosa, experimental subject, food desert, Frank Gehry, General Motors Futurama, gentrification, Google Earth, happiness index / gross national happiness, hedonic treadmill, Home mortgage interest deduction, housing crisis, income inequality, income per capita, Induced demand, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invisible hand, Jane Jacobs, license plate recognition, McMansion, means of production, megacity, Menlo Park, meta-analysis, mortgage tax deduction, New Urbanism, Panopticon Jeremy Bentham, peak oil, Ponzi scheme, power law, rent control, restrictive zoning, ride hailing / ride sharing, risk tolerance, science of happiness, Seaside, Florida, Silicon Valley, starchitect, streetcar suburb, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the High Line, The Spirit Level, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, trade route, transit-oriented development, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban sprawl, wage slave, white flight, World Values Survey, zero-sum game, Zipcar

If you own a car, you are contractually obligated to purchase a parking spot in one of the two garages at the edge of town. (That can be a shock. Leonard’s parents bought their parking spot for 20,000 euros.) But if you don’t own a car—and you are willing to sign an intimidating “car-free” pledge—you do not have to fork out for a parking spot. Instead, you buy a share of a leafy lot on the edge of town for about 3,700 euros. (This is an investment: if the car-free culture prevails, you will share that park with everyone. If Vauban requires more parking, you stand to make a sizable return.) This rationalization of car costs means that no matter how Vaubanites get to work, they tend to walk or cycle when they are close to home.

civil war and sporadic terrorism: Martin, Gerard, and Miguel Arévalo Ceballos, Bogotá: Anatomía de una transformación: políticas de seguridad ciudadana 1995–2003 (Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2004). nobody was killed in traffic: Stockholm Challenge, www.stockholmchallenge.org/project/data/bogot&-car-free-day-within-world-car-free-day-forum (accessed January 2, 2011). While the elder proselytized: Peñalosa has influenced more than a hundred cities. On his advice, cities such as Jakarta, Delhi, and Manila have reclaimed streets from their usurpation by private cars, creating vast linear parks or handing the space to rapid bus systems modeled on Bogotá’s own.

It occurred on the afternoon that I chased Enrique Peñalosa through the streets of Bogotá. Just as he had insisted on that first ride, our cycle across what was once one of the most infamous of cities was a breeze. The streets were virtually empty of cars. Nearly a million of them had stayed home that morning. Yes, it was el día sin carro, the car-free experiment that had grown into a yearly ritual. At first the streets felt slightly eerie, like landscapes from a postapocalyptic Twilight Zone episode. All the rumble and roar of the city quieted. Gradually we expanded into the space left by the cars. I let go of my fear. It was as though an immense tension had been lifted from Bogotá, as though the city could finally shake out its exhaustion and breathe.


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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar

A Pattern Language, Adam Neumann (WeWork), Airbnb, Albert Einstein, autonomous vehicles, availability heuristic, big-box store, bike sharing, Blue Bottle Coffee, car-free, congestion pricing, coronavirus, COVID-19, digital map, Donald Shoup, edge city, Ferguson, Missouri, Ford Model T, Frank Gehry, General Motors Futurama, gentrification, Google Earth, income inequality, indoor plumbing, Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford, Lyft, mandatory minimum, market clearing, megastructure, New Urbanism, parking minimums, power law, remote working, rent control, restrictive zoning, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Seaside, Florida, side hustle, Sidewalk Labs, Silicon Valley, SimCity, social distancing, Stop de Kindermoord, streetcar suburb, text mining, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, TikTok, traffic fines, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, Victor Gruen, walkable city, WeWork, white flight, Yogi Berra, young professional

Designates Open-Air Dining Areas along 101 Freeway Median,” Onion, July 28, 2020, theonion.com/l-a-designates-open-air-dining-areas-along-101-freeway-1844531667. Go to note reference in text Yelp reported a boost: Laura Bliss, “Where Covid’s Car-Free Streets Boosted Business,” Bloomberg, May 11, 2021, bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-11/the-business-case-for-car-free-streets. Go to note reference in text “Of course, that’s more important”: The Brian Lehrer Show, “Mayoral Campaign Update; Vaccine Volunteers; Long Island Police Hiring Practices Under Scrutiny; Ask the Mayor,” aired May 28, 2021, WNYC, wnyc.org/story/the-brian-lehrer-show-2021-05-28.

It was the right note for a suburban retail architect making the transition to city planning. In Fort Worth, he was trying to bring the mall downtown. The Gruen Plan had four central elements: The downtown was exclusively for pedestrians, who would navigate via electric trams and air-conditioned passageways. Underground tunnels would carry freight and garbage. Encircling this car-free area was a freeway loop, with connections into six gargantuan parking garages. The idea was to ensure that no place downtown was more than 150 seconds’ walk from a parking spot. To swallow up downtown traffic that Gruen predicted would, by 1970, require more street space than the entire built square footage of all Fort Worth’s downtown buildings combined, the plan called for sixty thousand parking spots.

Between 1959 and 1985, 140 American cities built pedestrian malls downtown. Some evolved into civic treasures, including the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California, and the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia. But most of them failed. Kalamazoo’s project has been whittled down to a single car-free block. Fewer than a third of these walkways remain in place. Gruen’s crowning downtown achievement would come a couple years later with Midtown Plaza, an anchor mall for the center of Rochester, New York. It was a city Gruen thought ruined “by parking lots, garages, used-car lots, widened roads and other automotive facilities.”


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Lonely Planet Switzerland by Lonely Planet

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Albert Einstein, bike sharing, car-free, carbon footprint, Eyjafjallajökull, Frank Gehry, G4S, Guggenheim Bilbao, Higgs boson, Kickstarter, Large Hadron Collider, low cost airline, messenger bag, Nelson Mandela, New Urbanism, offshore financial centre, smart cities, starchitect, trade route

Continue east along the Rhône Valley, nipping up to Leukerbad to drift in thermal waters beneath soaring mountain peaks. In Visp, head south to obsessively stare at the iconic Matterhorn from the hip streets, slopes and trails of stylish, car-free Zermatt. In the second week, get a taste of the Glacier Express with a train trip to Oberwald. Stop off in Betten for a cable-car side trip up to picture-book Bettmeralp, with its car-free streets and amazing vistas of the 23km-long Aletsch Glacier from atop Bettmerhorn. From Oberwald, drive north over the Grimsel Pass (2165m) to Meiringen (eat meringues!) and west into the magnificent Jungfrau Region with its once-in-a-lifetime train journey up to Europe’s highest station; base yourself in Interlaken or Grindelwald.

Next stop is ski resort Andermatt, another perfect place to stretch cramped legs and overnight. The roller-coaster journey continues with a descent then a steady climb to the Furka Pass, enabled by Switzerland's highest Alpine tunnel (and, at 15.4km, the longest of the 91 tunnels on this journey). Next port of call is Betten, cable-car station for the drop-dead gorgeous, car-free village and ski resort of Bettmeralp. Hop off here or in neighbouring Fiesch and spend a day hiking or skiing and staring open-mouthed at the gargantuan icy tongue of the Aletsch Glacier. From here the Glacier Express swings southwest along the Rhône Valley into Valais, stopping at Brig, its eclectic schloss (castle) topped with exotic onion domes; wine-producing Visp; and – drum roll – final destination Zermatt, where that first glimpse of the Matterhorn makes a fitting finale.

Family-oriented Arosa and Lenzerheide in the next valley are scenic picks for beginners, intermediates and cross-country fans. Want to give the crowds the slip? Glide across to the uncrowded slopes of Pizol, Scuol, Samnaun or Pontresina. Valais & Vaud Nothing beats skiing in the shadow of the Matterhorn, soaring 4478m above Zermatt. Snowboarders, intermediates and off-pisters all rave about the car-free resort's 360km of scenic runs. Almost as gorgeous is Crans-Montana, a great beginners’ choice with gentle, sunny slopes, and Matterhorn and Mont Blanc puncturing the skyline. Verbier has some terrifically challenging off-piste for experts. Hard-core boarders favour snow-sure, glacier-licked Saas Fee.


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Your Money: The Missing Manual by J.D. Roth

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When you enter info about each fill-up, Fuelly computes your average miles per gallon, cost per tank, and more. There's also a version of the site you can use with mobile gadgets like iPhones. Car-Free Living The best way to save money on a car is to not own one. Each year, AAA publishes an estimate of driving costs (http://tinyurl.com/driving-costs). They figure the average American spends about $9,369 each year to own a car. That works out to over $25 a day, or $750 per month. Imagine what else you could do with that money if you ditched your car! Not everyone has the option of going car-free. But for millions of people in cities like New York, Boston, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, giving up a vehicle is a viable option.

But for millions of people in cities like New York, Boston, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, giving up a vehicle is a viable option. In Chicago, for example, you can buy a week-long pass for unlimited subway and bus trips for only $24—that's just $96 per month. Though many people like the idea of going car-free, it can be tough to actually make the leap. Still, with rising gas prices, more folks are looking for ways to live well without wheels. Most people who give up their vehicles aren't radical, anti-car environmentalists; they've simply decided they'd rather use their time and money in different ways. (For an example, see the story of Chris Guillebeau on Reduce clutter.) Even if you keep your car, just driving less can save you money.


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Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling by Carlton Reid

1960s counterculture, autonomous vehicles, Beeching cuts, bike sharing, California gold rush, car-free, cognitive dissonance, driverless car, Ford Model T, Haight Ashbury, Jane Jacobs, Kickstarter, military-industrial complex, peak oil, Ponzi scheme, Silicon Valley, Skype, Steve Jobs, Steven Pinker, Stop de Kindermoord, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Traffic in Towns by Colin Buchanan, urban planning, urban renewal, Whole Earth Catalog, Yom Kippur War

There are bike paths on the campus and in the city, the civic symbol of which is a penny-farthing. Cycling in Davis is not cultish—it’s ordinary, no special clothing required. In most American cities, the modal-share for cycling struggles to reach 2 percent; in Davis, it’s 20 percent. The campus—cheek-by-jowl with the city—is car-free. There are excellent rail connections to Sacramento, San Jose, and San Francisco, and with a free bus service for students and university staff it’s easy to live without a car in Davis. It’s even easier when all of your urban travel can be done swiftly and safely on a standard bicycle. In the 1960s and 1970s, when the rest of America was building only for automobiles, Davis built for bicycles.

Gentlemen of education and position in their fast motorcars would be less likely to be dastardly and caddish if they were given free rein on roads, he felt. And for that to happen the only solution would be for a separation of transport modes. Perhaps instructively, Tripp preferred the word segregation. Tripp developed his ideas in his 1942 study, Town Planning and Road Traffic, recommending car-free, pedestrian-only shopping precincts, and bridges and underpasses in town centers to keep pedestrians and cyclists apart from motorists. Critics complained that this would mean drivers would get ground-level access to the streets, but all other users would have to climb into the sky or creep underground.

The CTC members’ magazine Cycletouring was intrigued by this new radical breed of eco-activism, and described for its readers the formation of a bicycle protest group linked to the Young Liberals: Commitment is the name of a new group whose activities have gained press recognition in the past few months as a result of “bike-in” demonstrations in London. One newspaper described how supporters had swept down Oxford street, wearing slogans like “bike power,” and had delivered a letter to the Greater London Council demanding a network of car-free cycleways. “We will concentrate on bikeways for commuters, not only within central London but through arterial routes to the suburbs,” says a Commitment spokesman. “Bikeways for pleasure, linking parks, theatres, concert halls and railways stations, are also planned. We believe we are fighting not only cars on the road, but cars in the head.”


Switzerland by Damien Simonis, Sarah Johnstone, Nicola Williams

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Albert Einstein, bank run, car-free, clean water, financial engineering, Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao, haute couture, haute cuisine, indoor plumbing, Kickstarter, low cost airline, Nelson Mandela, offshore financial centre, the market place, trade route, young professional

However, excellent 0 0 NORTHEASTERN SWITZERLAND GERMANY Engen Meersburg Schaffhausen Diessenhofer Constance (Konstanz) Stein am Rhein Rhine Falls Steckborn Friedrichshafen Kreuzlingen Lake Constance (Bodensee) Romanshorn Arbon THURGAU Wil Wittenbach E60 Heiden St Margrethen St Gallen N1 ZÜRICH Uetliberg Gais Stein Appenzell Maur Gonten Reu Küsnacht ss Adliswil Brülisau Kronberg (1663m) Wattwil To Innsbruck (170km); Salzburg (340km) APPENZELL Herisau Zürich Hohenems Hoher Kasten (2003m) Wasserauen Standing in the middle of the Rheinfall (p250), Europe’s largest waterfall AUSTRIA Schwägalp St Gallen Ziegelbrücke Sihlsee Walenstadt LIECHTENSTEIN Niederurnen Murg Wägnalen See Sargans Glarus Mels Braunwald N2 Klöntaler See Schwyz Bad Ragaz SCHWYZ Lake Uri (Urnersee) Braunwald GLARUS n Tun Linthal el Altdorf NIDWALDEN LANGUAGE: GERMAN OBWALDEN ss AREA: 4418 SQ KM Reu POPULATION: 865,855 Klausen Pass URI Chur GRAUBÜNDEN in Rh e To St Moritz (86km) NORTHEASTERN SWITZERLAND N4 Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstättersee) Vaduz Walensee Quinten Näfels Lucerne Discovering car-free Braunwald (p260) in one of the country’s least-visited regions Buchs ZUG Lake Zug (Zugersee) Ägerisee N14 Hitting the books in St Gallen’s Stiftsbibliothek (p252), a superb rococo masterpiece ST GALLEN N3 Zug Appenzell Feldkirch Säntis (2503m) Rapperswil Lake Zürich (Zürichsee) Wädenswil Letting every Swiss stereotype come to life in mouth-watering Appenzell (p255) NORTHEASTERN SWITZERLAND Bregenz Rorschach Winterthur HIGHLIGHTS Rheinfall Lindau Frauenfeld Gossau Stein am Rhein To Munich (160km) Mainau Island SCHAFFHAUSEN Perhaps the car-free resort of Braunwald sums up the region’s symbolic position within the country.

GLARNERLAND & AROUND At the bottom of eastern Switzerland, connected to the centre of the country only by the narrow Klausenpass, this little pocket gets relatively little attention. That doesn’t mean it’s undeserving, however, just that you have more of it to yourself. Besides the car-free resort of Braunwald and the dramatic Churfirsten mountains, Glarnerland offers breathtaking hiking, low-key skiing and snowboarding, and plenty of climbing and adrenaline sports. For more information, contact Glarner Tourismus (%055 610 21 25; tourismus@glarusnet.ch). BREGENZ elevation 1256m BRAUNWALD Car-free Braunwald basks in sunshine on the side of a steep hill, gazing at the snowcapped Tödi mountain (3614m) and the pastures in the valley below.

Broken Bar Disco (%027 967 19 31; Bahnhofstrasse 41; h10pm-4am) Down in a vaulted cellar of the Hotel Post, this is a popular dance dive where you can jive on a keg and expend any energy left over after the day on the slopes. The Hotel Post is home to various bars and eateries in the one complex. Getting There & Away CAR Zermatt is car-free. Dinky little electric vehicles are used to transport goods, serve as taxis and so on around town. At the moment, drivers have to leave their vehicles in the huge open parking area in Täsch (Sfr7.50 per day), or in one of the several covered garages there and take the train (Sfr7.80, 12 minutes) into Zermatt.


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How Cycling Can Save the World by Peter Walker

active transport: walking or cycling, bike sharing, Boris Johnson, car-free, correlation does not imply causation, Crossrail, Donald Shoup, driverless car, Enrique Peñalosa, fixed-gear, gentrification, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Ken Thompson, Kickstarter, meta-analysis, New Journalism, New Urbanism, post-work, publication bias, safety bicycle, Sidewalk Labs, Stop de Kindermoord, TED Talk, the built environment, traffic fines, Traffic in Towns by Colin Buchanan, transit-oriented development, urban planning

EPILOGUE 1 Carlton Reid, Roads Were Not Built for Cars: How Cyclists Were the First to Push for Good Roads & Became the Pioneers of Motoring (Washington, DC: Island Press), 2015. 2 Agence France-Presse, “Oslo Moves to Ban Cars from City Centre within Four Years,” The Guardian, October 19, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/19/oslo-moves-to-ban-cars-from-city-centre-within-four-years. 3 “Swedish Capital to Go Car Free in September,” The Local, July 20, 2015, http://www.thelocal.se/20150720/swedish-capital-to-go-car-free-for-a-day. 4 Adam Greenfield, “Helsinki’s Ambitious Plan to Make Car Ownership Pointless in 10 Years,” The Guardian, July 10, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jul/10/helsinki-shared-public-transport-plan-car-ownership-pointless. 5 Stephen Moss, “End of the Car Age: How Cities Are Outgrowing the Automobile,” The Guardian, April 28, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/28/end-of-the-car-age-how-cities-outgrew-the-automobile. 6 Interview with the author. 7 Interview with the author. 8 Interview with the author. 9 Interview with the author. 10 Interview with the author.

His vision for bikes was rational, a direct response of his awkwardly named PlaNYC, a 2007 document that sought to prepare the city for the expected arrival of another million residents in the coming years. Bloomberg’s commissioner for transport and, for good or ill, the public face of the city’s new bike lanes and associated car-free public plazas, was Janette Sadik-Khan. While a technocrat rather than a politician, Sadik-Khan talks in similarly free market ways about the city’s previous overreliance on the car and how this meant it was “getting diminishing returns” from its infrastructure. “Transportation is not an ideology, it’s not a left or right thing,” she told me.

They guessed 58 percent, when the real figure was about half that.10 Studies from places including Copenhagen have shown that while shoppers on a bike will tend to purchase less per trip than those in a car, they visit more often, and so tend on average to spend more overall.11 All this, you might argue, is all very well in a Graz or a Copenhagen, but what about really big cities? New York is a fascinating example here. When the city started to earmark certain streets for the first protected bike lanes and car-free plazas, some shops and other businesses along the routes complained vociferously. How would customers get to them? they asked. They claimed it would be disastrous for trade. They were completely wrong. In 2013, the city’s transport department commissioned a series of detailed studies about the impact on businesses along some of the city’s new bike routes, and the findings were striking.


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Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America by Angie Schmitt

active transport: walking or cycling, autonomous vehicles, car-free, congestion pricing, COVID-19, crossover SUV, desegregation, Donald Trump, Elaine Herzberg, gentrification, global pandemic, high-speed rail, invention of air conditioning, Lyft, megacity, move fast and break things, off-the-grid, Ralph Nader, Richard Florida, Ronald Reagan, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, Skype, subprime mortgage crisis, super pumped, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, Unsafe at Any Speed, urban planning, urban sprawl, white flight, wikimedia commons

Maria Angelica Perez Avendaño and Gustavo Jimenez, “Mexico City’s Car Congestion Slows Economic Growth, Costs Businesses,” World Resources Institute, April 28, 2015, https://www.wri.org/blog/2015/04/mexico-city-s-car-congestion-slows-economic-growth-costs-businesses. 35. Cáñez, telephone interview. 36. Alissa Walker, “Watch Oslo Transform into a Car-Free Utopia,” Curbed, April 24, 2017, https://www.curbed.com/2017/4/14/15301558/transportation-oslo-bike-lanes-cars-streetfilms. 37. Adele Peters, “What Happened When Oslo Decided to Make Its Downtown Basically Car-Free?,” Fast Company, January 24, 2019, https://www.fastcompany.com/90294948/what-happened-when-oslo-decided-to-make-its-downtown-basically-car-free. 38. Feargus O’Sullivan, “In Madrid, a Car Ban Proves Stronger Than Partisan Politics,” Citylab, July 24, 2019, https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/07/madrid-car-ban-street-map-city-politics-mayor-court-decision/594487/. 39.

Madrid, a leader on this front, banned most cars from its center city in 2018. Despite signs of backlash, the decision has proved popular and enduring. When a far-right government won power in the city the following year and called for reversing the ban, tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets38 and were successful in winning political support to continue the car-free zone. In addition, both Paris and London have long-term plans to phase out cars from central areas and streets. Already London has imposed congestion pricing to limit traffic in its central area. In addition, the city imposes steep fees on high-polluting vehicles within its designated Ultra Low Emissions Zone.

None of these policies would be possible without generous support for transit and years of work building bike facilities and other supportive infrastructure. These European cities also benefit from a housing stock that predates the auto era and a built environment that is dense and pedestrian friendly. Car-free zones, and other measures, have helped produce dramatic reductions in air pollution, which is a leading killer in many of these cities. In addition, they have helped Western Europe, along with Japan, become the world leader on traffic safety. Norway now has just 2.7 traffic fatalities per 100,000 residents—or less than one-fourth of the United States’ per capita fatality rate.


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Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars by Samuel I. Schwartz

2013 Report for America's Infrastructure - American Society of Civil Engineers - 19 March 2013, active transport: walking or cycling, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card, autonomous vehicles, bike sharing, car-free, City Beautiful movement, collaborative consumption, congestion charging, congestion pricing, crowdsourcing, desegregation, Donald Shoup, driverless car, Enrique Peñalosa, Ford Model T, Ford paid five dollars a day, Frederick Winslow Taylor, high-speed rail, if you build it, they will come, Induced demand, intermodal, invention of the wheel, lake wobegon effect, Lewis Mumford, Loma Prieta earthquake, longitudinal study, Lyft, Masdar, megacity, meta-analysis, moral hazard, Nate Silver, oil shock, parking minimums, Productivity paradox, Ralph Nader, rent control, ride hailing / ride sharing, Rosa Parks, scientific management, self-driving car, skinny streets, smart cities, smart grid, smart transportation, TED Talk, the built environment, the map is not the territory, transportation-network company, Uber and Lyft, Uber for X, uber lyft, Unsafe at Any Speed, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, walkable city, Wall-E, white flight, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration, Yogi Berra, Zipcar

Less useful for commuting, but even better loved by the city’s residents, he expanded the city’s ciclovías, which close seventy-five miles of Bogotá’s streets each Sunday and transform the temporarily car-free streets into plazas full of street entertainers, group exercise classes, and of course walkers and cyclists. It gets even better: ever since 2000, on the first Thursday in February, the entire city, rich and poor, goes car-free. Peñalosa went further still. Those sidewalks that had been commandeered as de facto parking lots by the city’s traditional buses and cars? Peñalosa ordered them cleared, and then built a network of curbs and bollards to keep the vehicles off them permanently.

The first four chapters of Street Smart describe the huge implications for cities and suburbs in a world in which the private automobile is a less and less dominant component of a modern transportation network—though I may as well say it here clearly: the private automobile isn’t going to disappear from the landscape of the industrialized world, and Street Smart isn’t a recipe for doing away with it. It wouldn’t be practical even if it were desirable, which it isn’t. A car-free future is a myth: seductive but unreachable. A dozen other myths, plausible but misleading, pervade the world of transportation. It’s widely believed, for example, that building new roads parallel to congested ones will relieve congestion. Or that wider lanes are safer than narrower lanes. Planners and politicians regularly contend that the more lanes you add to an intersection, the more traffic it can handle; that moving a city’s traffic faster will make that city function better; or that closing a congested street or knocking down a highway leads inevitably to gridlock.

The only hour when I found a measurable impact was between three and four in the afternoon. I knew, however, I had to come up with something more or I’d be bypassed in the process. So I proposed that we should open the Sixth Avenue entrance to the park but only as far as 72nd Street. Essentially the park would remain car-free north of 72nd Street and on the entire West Drive. I produced a rigorous report and it worked. The park remained closed from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (we lost the 3–4 p.m. hour) and the Sixth Avenue entrance remained open (a vestige that remains today). The Central Park incident was a reminder that New York had a less environmentally conscious executive running things.


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An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy by Marc Levinson

affirmative action, airline deregulation, Alan Greenspan, banking crisis, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, Boycotts of Israel, Bretton Woods, business cycle, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, car-free, Carmen Reinhart, central bank independence, centre right, clean water, deindustrialization, endogenous growth, falling living standards, financial deregulation, flag carrier, floating exchange rates, full employment, George Gilder, Gini coefficient, global supply chain, Great Leap Forward, guns versus butter model, high-speed rail, income inequality, income per capita, indoor plumbing, informal economy, intermodal, inverted yield curve, invisible hand, It's morning again in America, Kenneth Rogoff, knowledge economy, late capitalism, Les Trente Glorieuses, linear programming, low interest rates, manufacturing employment, Multi Fibre Arrangement, new economy, Nixon shock, Nixon triggered the end of the Bretton Woods system, North Sea oil, oil shock, Paul Samuelson, pension reform, Phillips curve, price stability, purchasing power parity, refrigerator car, Right to Buy, rising living standards, Robert Gordon, rolodex, Ronald Coase, Ronald Reagan, Simon Kuznets, statistical model, strikebreaker, structural adjustment programs, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, Thomas Malthus, total factor productivity, unorthodox policies, upwardly mobile, War on Poverty, Washington Consensus, Winter of Discontent, Wolfgang Streeck, women in the workforce, working-age population, yield curve, Yom Kippur War, zero-sum game

As storage tanks were drained, the Belgians, the Swiss, the Italians, the Norwegians, even the auto-obsessed West Germans soon faced car-free Sundays of their own. Speed limits were lowered, thermostats turned down, diesel supplies rationed. Indoor swimming pools in Stockholm were closed to save the energy required to heat them, and the Tour de Belgique auto race was called off. Permits for Sunday driving became coveted status symbols. West Germany, imagining itself to be a socially conscious market economy, was challenged by a gas station manager’s brusque explanation of her method for allocating petrol: “People I don’t know don’t get any.”2 Across the Atlantic, there were no car-free Sundays. Instead, there was panic.

From Eindhoven in the south to Groningen in the north, the streets of the Netherlands were nearly free of cars—aside from those of German tourists and of clergy, who, by special dispensation, were allowed to drive to church. Abandoning her Cadillac limousine, Queen Juliana, age sixty-four, cheerfully hopped on a bicycle to visit her grandchildren. To those uninvolved with the difficult decisions behind it, Holland’s first car-free Sunday of 1973 was a bit of a lark.1 Four weeks earlier, Egyptian and Syrian armies had burst through Israel’s defensive lines, routing Israeli troops and threatening to overrun the entire country in what became known as the Yom Kippur War. When the United States and the Netherlands funneled weapons to Israel, Arab oil-producing countries retaliated.

Storage tanks at European ports were overflowing, and tankers lined up in the Atlantic waiting their turn to dock at US refineries. Higher prices and conservation measures had cut demand, so some oil exporters, desperate for cash, set their pumps at top speed to raise production and keep their incomes steady. January 1974 brought the last of Europe’s car-free Sundays. In February, Nixon released gasoline from government stockpiles, and the lines at gas stations went away. On March 18, the Arab producers, eager for US help in mediating the withdrawal of Israeli troops, officially abandoned the embargo and turned their attention to averting a price collapse as oil flooded the markets.


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Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design by Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Steve Tiesdell, Taner Oc

"hyperreality Baudrillard"~20 OR "Baudrillard hyperreality", A Pattern Language, Arthur Eddington, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, big-box store, Broken windows theory, Buckminster Fuller, car-free, carbon footprint, cellular automata, City Beautiful movement, Community Supported Agriculture, complexity theory, deindustrialization, disinformation, Donald Trump, drive until you qualify, East Village, edge city, food miles, Frank Gehry, Future Shock, game design, garden city movement, gentrification, global supply chain, Guggenheim Bilbao, income inequality, invisible hand, iterative process, Jane Jacobs, land bank, late capitalism, Lewis Mumford, longitudinal study, Masdar, Maslow's hierarchy, megaproject, megastructure, New Urbanism, peak oil, Peter Calthorpe, place-making, post-oil, precautionary principle, principal–agent problem, prisoner's dilemma, profit motive, Richard Florida, Seaside, Florida, starchitect, streetcar suburb, systems thinking, tacit knowledge, technological determinism, telepresence, the built environment, The Chicago School, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Great Good Place, the market place, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Traffic in Towns by Colin Buchanan, Tragedy of the Commons, transaction costs, transit-oriented development, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, vertical integration, zero-sum game

Evolution thus shows how radical change can happen through incremental change, as is also shown by the well-documented experience of Copenhagen’s pedestrianisation (Gehl & Gemzoe 1996, 2000). Much of central Copenhagen became pedestrianised and car-free but it happened incrementally, at a pace that allowed people to adapt and respond to the change (Box 9.2). BOX 9.2 Car-Free Streets and Squares in Copenhagen The area of car-free streets and squares in Copenhagen has growm significantly in the last 40 years, increasing from 15 800m2 in 1962 to nearly 100 000 m2 in 1996. The programme began in 1962 with the pedestrianisation of the city’s main street, Stroget.

Furthermore, although it was expected that the Danish climate would severely limit the potential to develop public life, the season for outdoor seating at cafés has gradually been extended from a summer season of three or four months, to one lasting from April until November (Gehl & Gemzoe, 2000: 57). Gradual expansion of the city’s system of car-free and almost car-free spaces had three main advantages:• City residents had time to develop a new city culture and to discover and exploit the opportunities. • People had time to change their travel practices. Car owners, for example, gradually became accustomed to the idea of driving and parking in the city centre being more difficult: parking in the city centre was consistently reduced by 2–3% per year.

Murphy (2001: 24) highlights the proliferation of ‘exclusion’ zones (i.e. zones designed to be free of some undesirable social characteristics). This is a broad phenomenon. There are, for example: smoke-free zones; campaign and politics-free zones; skateboard-free zones; mobile or cell-phone-free zones; alcohol-free zones; and car-free zones (Figure 6.11). Figure 6.11 Love Square, Philadelphia (Image: Steve Tiesdell). Skateboarders had colonised an underused space; when the city authorities wanted to upgrade the space, the skateboarders were moved out Although public spaces may be regulated through a series of bylaws and other regulations, the existence of explicit controls on behaviour and activity is more pronounced and evident in quasi-public space.


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How to Retire the Cheapskate Way by Jeff Yeager

asset allocation, car-free, employer provided health coverage, estate planning, FedEx blackjack story, financial independence, fixed income, Pepto Bismol, pez dispenser, rent control, ride hailing / ride sharing, risk tolerance, Ronald Reagan, Zipcar

As we saw in the profile of Lys and Dan Burden, one of the primary reasons they chose the retirement location they did was that it will allow them to live car-free or at least “car-lite,” saving them an estimated $11,500 per year. Whether or not you’re relocating in retirement, thinking through your options when it comes to transportation is an extremely high priority. Can you downsize from owning two cars to just one? Can you live without a car completely—or at least keep it parked in the garage more often—by relying on public transportation, community-provided transportation for seniors, or car/ride-sharing programs? An excellent book on the topic about how to live car-free or car-lite is, ironically, entitled How to Live Well Without Owning a Car, by Chris Balish.

It even hosts its own annual kinetic sculpture races!” (Me: clueless expression.) “Just Google it, Jeff!” she laughs. I subsequently did, and you should too. Very high on the Burdens’ list of prerequisites for potential retirement locales was a place where they could live “car-lite” or even entirely “car-free.” That’s not surprising since Dan is the cofounder and executive director of the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute (www.walklive.org), a nonprofit organization dedicated to “working to create healthy, connected communities that support active living and that advance opportunities for all people through walkable streets, livable cities and better built environments.”

That allowed Dan and Lys to make the monthly mortgage payments and build equity in the home, all while enjoying essentially a free place to live while they both attended the University of Montana. When the couple moved to Florida nine years later, they sold the house and managed to repay each of the shareholders twice the amount each had “invested.” “At that time we were considered well below the poverty line, but we lived like kings and queens,” Dan says. “We were living car-free and eating really healthy by buying in bulk for everyone living in the house. It worked out to about $30 per person per month for all of our food. So for a total of $60 a month, including utilities, everyone was getting room and board, while their original investment in the house was growing. Not bad, eh?”


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If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities by Benjamin R. Barber

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Aaron Swartz, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, American Legislative Exchange Council, Berlin Wall, bike sharing, borderless world, Boris Johnson, Bretton Woods, British Empire, car-free, carbon footprint, Cass Sunstein, Celebration, Florida, classic study, clean water, congestion pricing, corporate governance, Crossrail, crowdsourcing, David Brooks, desegregation, Detroit bankruptcy, digital divide, digital Maoism, digital rights, disinformation, disintermediation, edge city, Edward Glaeser, Edward Snowden, Etonian, Evgeny Morozov, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, feminist movement, Filter Bubble, gentrification, George Gilder, ghettoisation, global pandemic, global village, Hernando de Soto, Howard Zinn, illegal immigration, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, income inequality, informal economy, information retrieval, Jane Jacobs, Jaron Lanier, Jeff Bezos, Lewis Mumford, London Interbank Offered Rate, Mark Zuckerberg, market fundamentalism, Marshall McLuhan, Masdar, megacity, microcredit, Mikhail Gorbachev, mortgage debt, mutually assured destruction, new economy, New Urbanism, Nicholas Carr, Norman Mailer, nuclear winter, obamacare, Occupy movement, off-the-grid, Panopticon Jeremy Bentham, Peace of Westphalia, Pearl River Delta, peer-to-peer, planetary scale, plutocrats, Prenzlauer Berg, profit motive, Ralph Waldo Emerson, RFID, Richard Florida, Ronald Reagan, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, SimCity, Skype, smart cities, smart meter, Steve Jobs, Stewart Brand, technological determinism, technological solutionism, TED Talk, Telecommunications Act of 1996, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, The future is already here, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Tobin tax, Tony Hsieh, trade route, UNCLOS, UNCLOS, unpaid internship, urban sprawl, Virgin Galactic, War on Poverty, zero-sum game

For decades, China’s urban transportation was heavily dependent on bicycles (including three-wheeled, one-ton load flatbeds), but today in the new age of automobiles, Chinese cities have come back to bike-share as a way to fight urban congestion and pollution in a newly car-crazed country. Formal intercity organizations and enlightened urban officials continue, of course, to play a leading role. Leoluca Orlando, recently elected to a third term in Palermo, inaugurated a “car-free cities club” that brings together cities supporting extensive car-free pedestrian zones—of which there are now thousands worldwide. Founded in 1997, his association operated for a decade as the European Union’s Car Free Cities Network. Such networks add momentum to civil society programs targeting emissions and congestion, although many, like the Sustainable Cities Collective, are today primarily web based.

He has continued to serve in the Italian Parliament and has also been a deputy to the European Parliament (with a first term from 1994 to 1999). In the summer of 2012, Orlando won an unprecedented third term as Palermo’s mayor. In the interim he held many regional and European offices, including chair of the Car-Free Cities Network. He quickly achieved a global reputation as a European civic organizer, a writer, and an actor. He has written a dozen books and legal treatises and has won the European Parliament’s European Civic Prize (in 2000) for “his struggle against organized crime and his engagement in favor of the civic renewal of his city.”

City-to-city cooperation takes place not only at the municipal level but at the civil society and citizen level, where borrowing, imitation, and shared experimentation are as important as formal governmental networking. In 1997, with a push from Mayor Leoluca Orlando of Palermo, the European Union founded “The Car-Free Cities Network.” Figure 1: Alpha and Beta city network membership. The intercity association UCLG estimates that “70 percent of the world’s cities and their associations participate in city-to-city international programs.” At the same time, “less than one percent of global development funding is channeled through local governments.”


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This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Extinction Rebellion

3D printing, autonomous vehicles, banks create money, biodiversity loss, bitcoin, blockchain, Buckminster Fuller, car-free, carbon footprint, carbon tax, circular economy, clean water, Colonization of Mars, CRISPR, crowdsourcing, David Attenborough, David Graeber, decarbonisation, deindustrialization, digital capitalism, Donald Trump, driverless car, drug harm reduction, Elon Musk, Ethereum, ethereum blockchain, Extinction Rebellion, Fairphone, feminist movement, full employment, Gail Bradbrook, gig economy, global pandemic, green new deal, Greta Thunberg, ice-free Arctic, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jeremy Corbyn, job automation, mass immigration, negative emissions, Peter Thiel, place-making, quantitative easing, Ray Kurzweil, retail therapy, rewilding, Sam Altman, smart grid, supply-chain management, tech billionaire, the scientific method, union organizing, urban sprawl, wealth creators

We simply need to lock down city car culture: privatized, corporate-led, fossil-fuel-hungry automobile dependency, and growth-based planning. This is not about merely addressing the technical issues of designing and building the low-hanging fruit of sustainable-mobility options like bike lanes and mass rapid transit, although of course these are essential first steps. We need to unlock car-free, socially just, zero-carbon, common-owned mobility. Getting rid of cars means getting rid of the conditions that makes us need cars. It’s a new mobility paradigm based on responding to climate breakdown, social inequality and living well. This is all absolutely achievable. In only just over one hundred years, we have witnessed the rise of only a handful of cars to a number approaching a billion.

But cities full of Google and Tesla driverless cars will not stop the descent into alienated street life, status anxiety and debt-fuelled, corporate-controlled consumerism. The driverless-car city is the next step in the great car take-over of the urban world. Putting ourselves front and centre of the car-free city is one of the most crucial but difficult tasks ahead. We are not stuck in traffic. We are the traffic. Recognizing our own personal implication in car culture and the damage it is doing is personally threatening. So much is invested in it that it is easier to ignore it. For many of us, perhaps the car represents the only crumb of sanity, freedom and control in an otherwise out-of-control world.

The Cleveland Model, Co-operation Jackson, the shack-dwellers movement, renters’ unions, housing cooperatives, open-source digital manufacture and crowd-sourced city plans are all showing how to reverse-engineer city communities and democracies to become places of safety and equality. Saving the city requires building a common city, which can put into reverse the pro-growth capitalist city. So what’s the overall place that this points to? A car-free, negative-emissions, commons-based bio city. This needs to be a positive vision of a beautiful place, thriving communities, abundant commons, pleasurable mobility, sufficient energy, a climate-safe future together. But we have to be realistic. We need to acknowledge and unravel the structural conditions that drive urban unsustainability.


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Tuscany Road Trips by Duncan Garwood, Paula Hardy, Robert Landon, Nicola Williams

call centre, car-free, haute couture, low cost airline, Skype

Slowly Lounge, Bar map Google map (www.slowlycafe.com; Via Porta Rossa 63r; 6.30pm-3am Mon-Sat, closed Aug) Sleek and sometimes snooty, this lounge bar with a candle flickering on every table is known for its glam interior, Florentine Lotharios and lavish fruit-garnished cocktails – €10 including buffet during the bewitching aperitivo ‘hour’ (6.30pm to 10pm). Ibiza-style lounge tracks dominate the turntable. 6 Santa Maria Novella Shake Café Cafe map Google map (055 29 53 10; www.shakecafe.bio; Via degli Avelli 2r; 7am-8pm) Handily close to the train station, this self-service juice bar has a perfect people-watching pavement terrace on car-free Piazza Santa Maria Novella. Its juices and smoothies include fabulous combos such as pineapple, fennel, celery, mint, chicory and liquorice. Unusually for Florence, Shake Café also makes cappuccinos with soya, almond or rice milk. Salads, wraps, sandwiches and gelati stave off hunger pangs. Sei Divino Wine Bar map Google map (Borgo d’Ognissanti 42r; 6pm-2am Wed-Mon) This stylish wine bar tucked beneath a red-brick vaulted ceiling is privy to one of Florence’s most happening aperitivo scenes.

Lucca 1 Sights 1 Cattedrale di San Martino D4 2 City Wall C1 3 Museo della Cattedrale D4 4 Torre Guinigi D3 4 Sleeping 5 Alla Corte degli Angeli C2 6 Piccolo Hotel Puccini C3 5 Eating 7 Da Felice C3 8 Local Food Market A3 9 Ristorante Giglio C4 1 Sights Stone-paved Via Fillungo, with its fashion boutiques and car-free mantra, threads its way through the medieval heart of the old city. East is one of Tuscany’s loveliest piazzas, oval cafe-ringed Piazza Anfiteatro, named after the amphitheatre that was here in Roman times. Spot remnants of the amphitheatre’s brick arches and masonry on the exterior walls of the medieval houses ringing the piazza.

Blue lines indicate where anyone can park (€2 per hour). 8 Getting Around Rent wheels (ID required) to pedal the 4.2km circumference of Lucca’s romantic city walls from a couple of outlets on Piazza Santa Maria, or try the following: Tourist Center Lucca (0583 49 44 01; www.touristcenterlucca.com; Piazzale Ricasoli 203; bike per hour/3hr/day €4/8/12; 8.30am-7.30pm summer, 9am-6pm winter) Exit the train station and bear left to find this handy bike rental outlet, with kids’ bikes, tandems, trailers and various other gadgets. It also has left-luggage facilities. Pietrasanta Pop 24,237 Often overlooked by Tuscan travellers, this refined art town is an unexpected and beautiful surprise. Its bijou historic heart, originally walled, is car-free and loaded with tiny art galleries, workshops and fashion boutiques – perfect for a day’s amble broken only by lunch. Founded in 1255 by Guiscardo da Pietrasanta, podestà of Lucca, Pietrasanta was seen as a prize by Genoa, Lucca, Pisa and Florence, all of whom jostled for possession of its marble quarries and bronze foundries.


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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck

A Pattern Language, active transport: walking or cycling, benefit corporation, bike sharing, car-free, carbon footprint, carbon tax, congestion charging, congestion pricing, David Brooks, Donald Shoup, edge city, Edward Glaeser, Enrique Peñalosa, food miles, Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao, if you build it, they will come, Induced demand, intermodal, invisible hand, it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it, Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford, meta-analysis, New Urbanism, parking minimums, peak oil, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Florida, skinny streets, smart cities, starchitect, Stewart Brand, tech worker, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, transit-oriented development, Upton Sinclair, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, walkable city, white flight, white picket fence, young professional, zero-sum game, Zipcar

Between walking, biking, and our extensive Metro transit system, driving was rarely the most convenient choice. And the parking lot beneath my apartment building charged a small fortune in fees. Add to that the availability of Zipcar car sharing in my neighborhood and it soon became apparent that going car-free was the most convenient option. Back in my Miami days, the idea of selling my car would never have occurred to me. My apartment was in the heart of South Beach’s art deco district. My job was on the mainland, in Little Havana, about a twenty-minute drive away. My gym was in Coral Gables, twenty minutes further afield.

Lunch, unless I wanted Cuban food every day—a decided health risk—required another twenty minutes of driving. All told, I was spending close to ninety minutes each weekday in traffic, about normal for an American. And I was OK with that. But, in Washington, it soon became apparent that there were other benefits to my new car-free lifestyle, besides just convenience. Six months into my autoless diet, I had lost ten pounds through walking and biking, and reduced my stress levels by avoiding traffic. I had gained thousands of dollars in transportation savings and also developed a deeper understanding of my city by experiencing it at a walking and biking pace.

The city has also completed about twenty blocks of the spectacular High Line project, a former elevated railway that has been converted to a linear park, perhaps the most delightful piece of civic art to have been created since midcentury. You’ve probably seen the pictures, and they don’t lie: these public amenities are a real boon to the livability of their neighborhoods and are well used in all but the worst weather. These car-free successes provide a powerful lesson that unfortunately does not apply to most American cities. It is a mistake to think that similar designs will produce similar results in vastly dissimilar places. Face it: you aren’t Copenhagen, where cyclists outnumber motorists.33 You aren’t New York, where pedestrian congestion can actually make it almost impossible to walk south along Seventh Avenue near Penn Station at 9:00 a.m.


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Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis by Leo Hollis

Airbnb, Alvin Toffler, banking crisis, Berlin Wall, Big Tech, Boris Johnson, Broken windows theory, Buckminster Fuller, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, cellular automata, classic study, clean water, cloud computing, complexity theory, congestion charging, creative destruction, credit crunch, Credit Default Swap, crowdsourcing, Deng Xiaoping, digital divide, digital map, Disneyland with the Death Penalty, Donald Shoup, East Village, Edward Glaeser, Elisha Otis, Enrique Peñalosa, export processing zone, Firefox, Frank Gehry, General Motors Futurama, Geoffrey West, Santa Fe Institute, Gini coefficient, Google Earth, Great Leap Forward, Guggenheim Bilbao, haute couture, Hernando de Soto, high-speed rail, housing crisis, illegal immigration, income inequality, informal economy, Internet of things, invisible hand, Jane Jacobs, Jevons paradox, Kickstarter, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, Leo Hollis, Lewis Mumford, Long Term Capital Management, M-Pesa, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Zuckerberg, Masdar, mass immigration, megacity, negative equity, Neil Armstrong, new economy, New Urbanism, Occupy movement, off-the-grid, openstreetmap, packet switching, Panopticon Jeremy Bentham, place-making, power law, Quicken Loans, Ray Oldenburg, Richard Florida, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Skype, smart cities, smart grid, spice trade, Steve Jobs, technoutopianism, the built environment, The Chicago School, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Great Good Place, the High Line, The Spirit Level, the strength of weak ties, The Wisdom of Crowds, Thomas Malthus, trade route, traveling salesman, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, walkable city, white flight, Y2K, Yom Kippur War

It is for this reason that when we think about cities we must concentrate not just on the design of buildings but the encouragement of life between the buildings. This is exactly what the Danish architect Jan Gehl thinks. Gehl has long campaigned to redesign the city by putting the pedestrian first. Starting in his home city, Copenhagen, he was the driving force behind the Stroget Car-Free Zone, the longest pedestrian area in Europe, devised in the 1960s. Like Whyte, Gehl believes that the city can rediscover its original functions in the hypermobile world: the city as a place for discourse, for bumping into strangers and old friends, for the exchange of information and goods, for formal occasions like feasts and festivals as well as private pleasures.

While new technology has allowed us to do many of these things remotely, they do not replace the human urge to be where other people are. As he writes: ‘Life in buildings and between buildings seems in nearly all situations to rank as more essential and more relevant than the spaces and buildings themselves.’24 Stroget – the joys of a car-free city centre It started off as an experiment. At Christmas time it was customary to cut off the central street, Stroget, that ran through the middle of Copenhagen, for a couple of days. Yet in 1962 they extended the closure to engage public reaction. For some the plan could only lead to disaster, with complaints that ‘we are Danes, not Italians!’

Here the emphasis is on incremental change from the bottom up, with a focus on five main goals: A deliberate phased approach to instigating change The offering of local solutions to local planning challenges Short-term commitment and realistic expectations Low risks, with a possibly high reward The development of social capital between citizens and the building of organisational capacity between public-private institutions, non-profit and their constituents.28 Such tactical urbanism can be found in many places: Depave is a group from Portland, Oregon that tears up unwanted asphalt and returns the land to gardens. The Open Street Initiative has pedestrianised thoroughfares for the weekend to open up American cities to walkers and cyclists; the scheme now runs in over forty cities across the US. The mayor of New York has turned Times Square into a car-free plaza. The change in legislation on food trucks has allowed a new vibrant culinary culture in many US cities. Guerrilla gardening has turned forgotten corners of the city into blooming borders. Making a city for the people makes a difference. After a century of architectural visionaries and their dreams of transforming human nature to the destructive nightmares of autopia that ripped up the old neighbourhoods in the name of efficiency and cleanliness, we have learnt that if we do not take account of the people who use them, it has every chance of failing.


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One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility by Zack Furness, Zachary Mooradian Furness

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For example, outdoor bike racks are generally scarce or inconveniently located, indoor parking facilities are almost nonexistent in U.S. cities, makeshift bike racks like parking meters are gradually disappearing from urban spaces (replaced by digital boxes), and most employers do not allow employees to bring their bicycles inside their place of work, much less provide facilities to shower and/or change clothes.23 One can add to this any number of issues, including the prevalence of road hazards, a decreasing number of independent bike shops nationwide, and a relatively hostile street environment in which it is not uncommon for male drivers to sexually harass women on bikes and to intimidate, taunt (getting called “faggot” is all-too-typical), and occasionally kill male cyclists.24 Even seven-time Tour de France champion lance armstrong is not immune from these general trends; he was threatened and almost run over by a vengeful driver following a verbal exchange on the road in the late 1990s.25 Whether one chooses to ride a bicycle or does so out of necessity, daily mobility quickly becomes an issue when some of the most mundane, routine experiences one has as a bicyclist are fraught with a degree of hassle that one rarely experiences as a driver. Sara Stout, a prominent bicycle advocate and car-free activist in portland (Oregon), describes how this everyday sensibility begins to transform one’s perspective about bicycle transportation and the need to effect some sort of change: “at first bicycling is utilitarian, it’s just how you choose to get around . . . but it becomes political really quickly because it’s hard to get around.

Halloween rides, for example, consistently feature some of the most elaborate festivities and parade themes. Critical Mass has also been used to pay tribute to cyclists killed by automobiles, and occasionally integrated into political protests and reclaim the Streets events: guerilla street parties thrown to celebrate both car-free space and the act of celebration itself.8 Without a charter, a centralized network, or formal affiliation with any organization, the event spread to more than three hundred cities throughout the world with rides featuring as many as eighty thousand participants, or “Massers.”9 Critical Mass is essentially a direct action, anarchic event in that rides are unsanctioned by city officials and riders are motivated by self-determination, self-rule, and non-hierarchical organization.

The Dutch provo, who aligned themselves with anarchists, antiwar activists, beatniks, freaks, and the like, actually articulated this punk disposition in the 1960s when describing their allies as a worldwide provotariat who dwell in “carbon-monoxidepoisoned asphalt jungles”: they are the people who “don’t want a career, who lead irregular lives, who feel like cyclists on a motorway.”10 While an apt metaphor, this sentiment is also a truism for many dissidents who, like the provo, do not simply feel like cyclists on the motorway, they are the cyclists on the motorway. Thus, it is hardly surprising that the Diy punk underground has spawned an array of politicized (if not politically disorganized) cyclists who are passionate about car-free living, technical skill sharing, and the idea of gaining independence from both the auto and oil industries.11 indeed, within certain scenes, custom built fixed-gear bikes, old beach cruisers, BMX bikes, converted single speeders, and thrift store “beaters” are as integral to punk culture as seven-inch records, zines, mohawks, and bad tattoos.


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Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism by Mikael Colville-Andersen

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Today it’s almost impossible to imagine in a country with such a high standard of living, but families in apartments in the neighborhood where I live had to huddle around wood-burning stoves in one room during the winters. Later today, after I write this paragraph, I will be heading out with my daughter, Lulu-Sophia, to enjoy Car-Free Sunday in Copenhagen. The first of its kind in Denmark was on November 25, 1973, and was an initiative by the government to save fuel. In many cities in Denmark, every second streetlight was turned off for the same reason. There were public demonstrations on City Hall Square with tens of thousands of people with their bicycles, demanding safer conditions for cycling.

The downtown cores in Edmonton and Calgary are, like so many other cities, doughnuts outside of working hours. Devoid of life after the workers head home. These cities effectively amputated their streetlife and replaced it with artificial limbs in the air. Back in 1970, Calgary tried to funk it up by making a stretch of 8th Avenue car-free and renaming it Stephen Avenue. The idea has never really worked, and parts of the street have since been handed back to cars, and it’s a poor cousin to so many other pedestrianized streets around the world. The Skywalk system and other concepts like it are simply attempts to put streetlife—and people—on a shelf, out of the way.

Hauschild + Siegel and the City of Malmö are ahead of the curve, but we will see more developments like this appearing in cities around the world. Designing for bicycles and for urban living. A much-needed bike rack placed outside the front entrance of the Clarion Hotel & Congress Trondheim. The OhBoy Bicycle House development in Malmö, Sweden. Car-free living in a modern city. © Hauschild + Siegel Architects CHAPTER 11 DESIRE LINES AND UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOR You can observe a lot by watching. Yogi Berra Cyclist on a desire line trajectory across an intersection in Copenhagen. Yep. You’ve heard it before. You might even have said it or at least thought it.


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Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2020 by Lonely Planet

Airbnb, bike sharing, car-free, carbon footprint, Easter island, food desert, happiness index / gross national happiness, high-speed rail, Hyperloop, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), off-the-grid, rewilding, Ronald Reagan, sustainable-tourism, trade route

Then leave the crowds behind and explore the country by train – the furthest stop is less than 2½ hours away. • Take a walking tour in Rotterdam to discover its innovative architecture and harrowing war history. • Take a day-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 on a field of tulips near Zijldijk, Groningen LIBERIA For most outsiders, Liberia is a bit of a mystery. But those in the know wax lyrical about the optimism of its people and the country’s natural wonders.

We’ve identified ten destinations where you can minimise the impact of your family’s travels. 1 AUSTRIA Explore the kid-friendly Austrian capital of Vienna, which offers more organic farmland than any other city and has both ‘Green Taxis’ and plenty of bike-share stations for getting around. Find a small-scale 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 Schönbrunn where kids can dress up. © JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU RESORT © EXPLORATORIUM, WWW.EXPLORATORIUM.EDU 2 FIJI Leave the resorts and cruise ships behind and head off the beaten track to stay in a village homestay.


Coastal California by Lonely Planet

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Greyhound (www.greyhound.com; 34 W Carrillo St) has a few daily services along Hwy 101 south to LA ($18, three hours) or north to San Francisco ($53, nine hours) via San Luis Obispo ($26, 2¼ hours). CAR-FREE SANTA BARBARA If you use public transportation to get to Santa Barbara, you can get valuable hotel discounts, plus get a nice swag bag of coupons for various activities and attractions, all courtesy of Santa Barbara Car Free (www.santabarbaracarfree.org). Getting Around Equipped with front-loading bicycle racks, local buses operated by Metropolitan Transit District (MTD; 805-963-3366; www.sbmtd.gov; 1020 Chapala St) cost $1.75 per ride; ask for a free transfer when boarding.

Golden Gate Ferries ( 415-923-2000; www.goldengateferry.org; 6am-10pm Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm Sat & Sun) Regular services run from the Ferry Building to Larkspur and Sausalito in Marin County. Transfers are available to MUNI bus services, and bicycles permitted. Vallejo Ferries ( 415-773-1188; one way adult/child $15/7.50) Get to Napa car-free, with departures from Ferry Building docks about every hour from 6:30am through 7pm weekdays and every two hours from 11am through 7:30pm on weekends; bikes are permitted. From the Vallejo Ferry Terminal, take Napa Valley Vine bus 10 to downtown Napa, Yountville, St Helena or Calistoga. Also connects to Six Flags Marine World theme park in Vallejo.

This ain’t your standard dumbed-down playground, suffocated by Big Brother’s safety regulations. With lightning-fast slides, a hedge maze and towering climbing walls, even some adults can’t resist playing here. Cycling & Mountain-Biking Along a former railway line, the Monterey Peninsula Recreational Trail travels 18 car-free miles along the waterfront, passing Cannery Row en route to Lovers Point in Pacific Grove. Road-cycling enthusiasts with nerves of steel can make the round trip to Carmel along the 17-Mile Drive (see the boxed text, Click here). Mountain-bikers head to Fort Ord for 50 miles of single-track and fire roads; the Sea Otter Classic (www.seaotterclassic.com) races there in mid-April.


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The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work by Richard Florida

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Perry, “Average New Home Size Falls for the Frst Time since ’94,” Seeking Alpha (online), March 8 2009, retrieved from http://seekingalpha.com/article/124684-average-new-home-size-falls-for-first-time-since-94. 12. Micheline Maynard, “Is Happiness Still That New Car Smell?” New York Times, October 22, 2009. 13. Christopher Leinberger, “Car Free in America/Bottom Line: It’s Cheaper,” New York Times, online symposium, May 12, 2009, retrieved from http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/carless-in-america/?hp 14. Yuri Kageyama, “Car-Free: In Japan, That’s How a Generation Rolls,” Associated Press, January 6, 2009. 15. Rich Morin and Paul Taylor, “Luxury or Necessity? The Public Makes a U-Turn,” Pew Research Center, April 23, 2009, retrieved from http://pewsocialtrends.org/pubs/733/luxury-necessity-recession-era-reevaluations. 16.

In fact, they drove about 8 percent less than the model predicted.” Combined with the exceptionally sluggish sales of new cars, Silver concedes that Americans might be “considering making more-permanent adjustments to their lifestyles”—buying fewer cars or buying them less frequently, driving less, and generally “entertaining the idea of leading a car-free existence.”16 A separate study by J. D. Power and Associates, best known for its quality rankings of cars, confirms what young people tell me: after analyzing hundreds of thousands of online conversations on everything from car blogs to Twitter and Facebook, the study found that teens and young people in their early twenties have increasingly negative perceptions “regarding the necessity of and desire to have cars.”17 “There’s a cultural change taking place,” John Casesa, a veteran auto industry analyst, told the New York Times.


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Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation by Paris Marx

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They gained the ear of people in power, then received public funding and helped to develop policies to deemphasize the automobile’s place in Dutch transport policy. The growing death toll was one reason for the shift, but the oil shocks also played an important role in building momentum. After oil prices soared in 1973, the Dutch prime minister asked citizens to change the way they lived so they could conserve energy, and Sundays became car-free days. Those experiences affected policy decisions, and by the 1980s Dutch cities and towns were promoting bicycle use by giving them dedicated lanes and redesigning streets to reduce vehicle speeds. Meanwhile, across the continent governments were promoting energy efficiency and European automakers were building smaller, more efficient vehicles.

Despite Norway’s position as a world leader in electric vehicle sales, Oslo’s new government was not content simply to see more vehicles converted to battery power. Instead, it put forward a very simple, yet radical plan: private vehicles would be banned from the city center entirely. Even though the vehicle ownership rate was less than 12 percent in the proposed car-free zone, the response of conservatives and motorists was swift. One right-wing politician branded the plan “a Berlin Wall against motorists” and drivers claimed they felt bullied by the new city government. After a year of negotiation and attacks in the press, the left-wing coalition relented: instead of banning private vehicles, it would remove all 650 on-street parking spaces.

As in Oslo, there followed a backlash from right-wing and motorist groups to the permanent closure of the highway that carried 43,000 vehicles a day, even as a poll found that 55 percent of Parisians were in favor. The plan went to court as opponents tried to have it overturned, and while they won a legal victory in February 2018, an appeals court ruled in October that the riverbank would remain car-free. The pedestrianization of a segment of the Rive Droite was an action that garnered a lot of attention, but it was just one piece of a much larger plan to remake Paris for its residents, instead of people who would drive in from elsewhere. This shift in urban policy did not begin with Hidalgo, but rather her Socialist predecessor Bertrand Delanoë, who became mayor in 2001.


Central Europe Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

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Gstaad (www.gstaad.ch) has a pedestrianised centre, excellent public transport and makes huge efforts to preserve its natural surroundings in the Bernese Oberland. Valais skiers can carve with a clear conscience in Verbier (www.verbier.ch) , where energy-efficient snow-grooming machines use biodiesel fuel. In the Jungfrau region, Zermatt ( Click here ) is a whiter-than-white green classic with its car-free and eco-sound building policies, free shuttle buses and 60% hydroelectricity. Other notable wholly car-free resorts include Saas Fee (www.saas-fee.ch) near Zermatt, Wengen and Mürren (Click here ) near Lauterbrunnen, and Valais’ Bettmeralp (www.bettmeralp.ch) . Food & Drink Staples & Specialities Lactose intolerants will struggle in this dairy-obsessed country, which makes some of the world’s most delectable chocolate and where cheese is a way of life.

Copernicus statue in front of Old Town Hall, Toruń, Poland WITOLD SKRYPCZAK/LONELY PLANET IMAGES © Visiting Jungfrau Villages 14 Three of Europe’s most impressive, glacier-encrusted peaks form the backdrop to the quaint towns and ski villages throughout Switzerland’s Jungfrau region ( Click here ). By day, take advantage of 200km worth of ski and snowboard pistes (and hundreds more kilometres of hiking trails). By night, return to an atmospheric chalet in resort towns like bustling Grindelwald or car-free Mürren. Here every home and hostel has a postcard-worthy view, and cowbells echo in the valleys. This is storybook Switzerland at its best. Mürren, Switzerland GLENN VAN DER KNIJFF/LONELY PLANET IMAGES © Top of section need to know BUSES » For travel in the mountains or between villages.

Most people assume this medieval little island-city is part of Baden-Württemberg but it’s not. Here you’ll see the blue-and-white Bavarian state colours, and sudsy brews trump the wines found elsewhere along the lake. Connected to the nearby lakeshore by bridges, this is a charming, nearly car-free town. Key sights (often adorned with murals) include the Altes Rathaus (Reichsplatz) , the city theatre (Barfüsser-platz) and the little harbour’s Seepromenade , with its Bavarian Lion monument and lighthouse . When the haze clears, the Alps provide a stunning backdrop for watersports that include windsurfing and rowing.


Western USA by Lonely Planet

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Don’t expect Manhattan just yet, but for adventurous urbanites, now is an exciting time to be Downtown. Downtown is easily explored on foot or by subway or DASH minibus. Parking is cheapest (about $6 all day) around Little Tokyo and Chinatown. EL PUEBLO DE LOS ANGELES & AROUND Compact, colorful and car-free, this historic district is an immersion in LA’s Spanish-Mexican roots. Its spine is Olvera St, a festive tack-o-rama where you can chomp on tacos and stock up on handmade candy, folkloric trinkets and bric-a-brac. Avila Adobe HISTORIC BUILDING ( 213-628-1274; Olvera St; 9am-4pm) This 1818 ranch home claims to be the city’s oldest existing building.

Getty Villa MUSEUM (www.getty.edu; 17985 Pacific Coast Hwy; 10am-5pm Wed-Mon; ) Malibu’s cultural star, a replica Roman villa that’s a fantastic showcase of Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities. Admission is by timed ticket (no walk-ins). Parking is $15. SANTA MONICA Santa Monica is the belle by the beach, mixing urban cool with a laid-back vibe. Tourists, teens and street performers make car-free, chain-store-lined Third Street Promenade the most action-packed zone. There’s free two-hour parking in public garages on 2nd and 4th Sts ($3 after 6pm). For more local flavor, shop celeb-favored Montana Avenue or down-homey Main Street, backbone of the neighborhood once nicknamed ‘Dogtown’ as the birthplace of skateboard culture.

South of Mission Bay, hippie-flavored Ocean Beach (OB; Click here) has a fishing pier, beach volleyball, sunset BBQs and good surf. Newport Ave is chockablock with bohemian bars, eateries and shops selling beachwear, surf gear and antiques. West of Mission Bay, Mission Beach (MB) and its northern neighbor, Pacific Beach (PB), are connected by the car-free Ocean Front Walk, which swarms with skaters, joggers and cyclists year-round. The small Belmont Park amusement park in MB beckons with a historic wooden roller coaster and large indoor pool. SeaWorld AQUARIUM ( 619-226-3901; www.seaworld.com/seaworld/ca; 500 SeaWorld Dr; adult/child 3-9yr $70/62; 9am-10pm Jul–mid-Aug, to 11pm Fri-Sun, shorter hr rest of year) It’s easy to spend a day at Mission Bay’s four-star attraction.


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The Miracle Pill by Peter Walker

active transport: walking or cycling, agricultural Revolution, autonomous vehicles, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, call centre, car-free, Coronary heart disease and physical activity of work, coronavirus, COVID-19, driverless car, experimental subject, James Watt: steam engine, Kickstarter, lockdown, longitudinal study, meta-analysis, randomized controlled trial, Sidewalk Labs, social distancing, Stop de Kindermoord, the built environment, Traffic in Towns by Colin Buchanan, twin studies, Wall-E, washing machines reduced drudgery

Places like Vauban show what you can do if you just reconfigure neighbourhoods. The whole of the public realm then becomes a sociable, playful, welcoming space.’36 Movement for all For all that I was perhaps a bit sceptical about BIG’s Toyota Woven City concept, one theme it explores is hugely interesting. Among the reasons for the green, welcoming, car-free streets is to make the public realm more open to older people, and to those with disabilities. The former is particularly relevant given Japan has such a rapidly ageing population, with forecasts that around a third of all its population will be sixty-five or older within a decade from now.37 The new Toyota community will, Rost tells me, be designed so older people ‘feel invited to come outside’.

Given the impracticality of persuading people to spend hours a day fidgeting, Levine’s solution is for activity to be built into other areas of life, including active travel. He argues that a combination of the inactivity crisis and the climate emergency should be used as an opportunity to completely reshape cities in favour of walking and cycling, and he would like to see his adopted home, Paris, make itself entirely car-free: ‘When big things happen in societies, it’s rarely one thing that precipitates big change, it’s normally the collision of several things.’26 Levine was being more prescient than he could have realised. We spoke just before the coronavirus emergency descended. At time of writing, to cope with the socially distanced transport aftermath, Paris’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, has removed cars from a series of city centre roads and announced plans for hundreds of miles of extra cycle lanes.

Nieman, ‘Coronavirus disease-2019: A tocsin to our aging, unfit, corpulent, and immunodeficient society’, Journal of Sport and Health Science, Vol. 9, No. 4 (2020): 293–301. 8 Peter Walker, Matthew Taylor, ‘Labour to plan green economic rescue from coronavirus crisis’, The Guardian, 17 May 2020. Interview took place on 15 May. 9 Briefing to political journalists in the daily ‘lobby’ conference (held via telephone conference call amid coronavirus). 10 Matthew Taylor, ‘Large areas of London to be made car-free as lockdown eased’, The Guardian, 15 May 2020. 11 Interview with the author. 12 Interview with the author. 13 Interview with the author. 14 Interview with the author. 15 Interview with the author. 16 Interview with the author. INDEX A note about the index: The pages referenced in this index refer to the page numbers in the print edition.


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Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life by David Sim

A Pattern Language, active transport: walking or cycling, anti-fragile, autonomous vehicles, car-free, carbon footprint, Jane Jacobs, megaproject, megastructure, New Urbanism, place-making, smart cities, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the market place, transit-oriented development, urban planning, urban renewal, walkable city

The gardens are shared with neighbors, and common outdoor spaces are shared with the wider neighborhood. There are larger public spaces, such as a plaza outside the community building and a forested landscape to the south, with a small stream. The streets are important public spaces for playing and meeting. Although not car-free, Vauban promotes car-free living, with excellent public transport and bicycle infrastructure. Parking is accommodated in multi-story garages located on the edge of the district. Vauban represents the combination of an ambitious plan by the City and enthusiastic and dedicated local activism. The development successfully accommodates greater density and diversity at a human scale with buildings oriented toward the public realm.


Lonely Planet Southern Italy by Lonely Planet

Airbnb, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, clean water, Google Earth, Kickstarter, Kinder Surprise, land reform, low cost airline, mass immigration, Murano, Venice glass, Pier Paolo Pasolini, place-making, post-work, Skype, starchitect, urban decay, urban sprawl, women in the workforce

Capri 1Top Sights 1Seggiovia del Monte SolaroC2 2Villa JovisG1 3Villa LysisG1 4Villa San Michele di Axel MuntheC1 1Sights 5Certosa di San GiacomoE3 6Giardini di AugustoE3 7Grotta AzzurraB1 8Piazza Umberto IG4 2Activities, Courses & Tours 9Banana SportE1 10Capri WhalesE2 11Motoscafisti di CapriE1 4Sleeping 12Capri PalaceC1 13Casa MariantoniaC2 14Grand Hotel QuisisanaG4 15Hotel Villa EvaB1 16La MinervaE2 5Eating 17È DivinoG4 18Gelateria BuonacoreG4 19Il GeranioE2 20La PaletteF2 21Le GrottelleF2 6Drinking & Nightlife 22Caffè MichelangeloC2 23Taverna Anema e CoreG4 7Shopping 24Carthusia I Profumi di CapriE2 25La ParisienneG4 26Limoncello Capri Canale MassimoC1 1 Sights 1Capri Town & Around With its whitewashed stone buildings and tiny, car-free streets, Capri Town exudes a cinematic air. A diminutive model of upmarket Mediterranean chic, it’s a well-tended playground of luxury hotels, expensive bars, smart restaurants and high-end boutiques. In summer the centre swells with crowds of camera-wielding day trippers and yacht-owning playboys (and girls), but don’t be put off from exploring the atmospheric and ancient side streets, where the crowds quickly thin.

Ischia is a refreshing antidote to glitzy Capri. Most visitors head straight for the north-coast towns of Ischia Porto, Ischia Ponte, Forio and Lacco Ameno. Of these, Ischia Porto boasts the best bars, while Forio and Lacco Ameno have the prettiest spas and gardens. On the calmer south coast, the car-free perfection of Sant’Angelo offers a languid blend of a cosy harbour and lazy beaches. In between the coasts lies a less-trodden landscape of chestnut forests, vineyards and volcanic rock, loomed over by Monte Epomeo, Ischia’s highest peak. 1 Sights oCastello AragoneseCASTLE (Aragon Castle; %342 9618566, 081 99 28 34; www.castelloaragoneseischia.com; Rocca del Castello, Ischia Ponte; adult/reduced €10/6; h9am-sunset) There are castles and then there’s Ischia’s Castello Aragonese, a veritable fort-city set on its own craggy islet, looking like a cross between Harry Potter’s Hogwarts and Mont Saint Michel.

Glowing with warm, earthy tones, five rooms and one spacious suite feature high ceilings, marble, tile or wooden floors, soundproof windows and modern bathrooms. B&B AmélieB&B€ (map Google map; %328 8654824, 091 33 59 20; www.bb-amelie.it; Via Prinicipe di Belmonte 94; s €40-60, d €60-80, tr €90-100; aiW) On a central, car-free street, affable, multilingual Angela has converted her grandmother’s spacious 6th-floor flat into a cheery B&B. Rooms are simple, colourful and spotless. All have private bathroom (either as an ensuite or in the hallway) and two come with private terrace. Breakfast includes homemade cakes and jams, and Angela, a native Palermitan, is a font of local knowledge.


Lonely Planet's Best of USA by Lonely Planet

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Airbnb, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Berlin Wall, big-box store, bike sharing, Burning Man, car-free, carbon footprint, Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Strangelove, East Village, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Francisco Pizarro, Frank Gehry, Golden Gate Park, haute cuisine, mass immigration, obamacare, off-the-grid, retail therapy, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, the High Line, the payments system, transcontinental railway, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban renewal, Works Progress Administration

Finish Abbot Kinney Blvd; JMTA 33 Skateboarders, Venice Beach / KYLIE MCLAUGHLIN / GETTY IMAGES © Downtown Los Angeles 1 Sights 1 Geffen Contemporary at MOCA D2 2 Grammy Museum A3 3 Grand Central Market C2 4 Japanese American National Museum D2 5 LA Live A3 6 La Plaza de Cultura y Artes D1 7 Museum of Contemporary Art C1 8 Walt Disney Concert Hall C1 5 Eating 9 Cole’s C3 10 Q Sushi B2 11 Sushi Gen D2 6 Drinking & Nightlife 12 Edison C2 7 Shopping 13 Fashion District B3 1 SIGHTS 1 El Pueblo de Los Angeles Compact, colorful and car-free, this historic district is an immersion in LA’s Spanish-Mexican roots. Its spine is Olvera Street, a festive kitsch-o-rama where you can snap up handmade folkloric trinkets, then chomp on tacos or sugar-sprinkled churros. La Plaza de Cultura y Artes Museum Map Google Map This museum chronicles the Mexican-American experience in Los Angeles, from the Mexican–American War when the border crossed the original pueblo, to the Zoot Suit Riots to Cesar Chavez and the Chicana movement.

Getty Center Museum In its billion-dollar, in-the-clouds perch, high above the city grit and grime, the Getty Center presents triple delights: a stellar art collection (everything from renaissance artists to David Hockney), Richard Meier’s cutting-edge architecture, and the visual splendor of seasonally changing gardens. (%310-440-7300; www.getty.edu; 1200 Getty Center Dr, off I-405 Fwy; h10am-5:30pm Tue-Fri & Sun, to 9pm Sat; pW) F Getty Center / P. EOCHE / GETTY IMAGES © 1 Santa Monica The belle by the beach mixes urban cool with a laid-back vibe. Tourists, teens and street performers throng car-free, chainstore-lined Third Street Promenade. For more local flavor, shop posh Montana Avenue or eclectic Main Street, backbone of the neighborhood once nicknamed ‘Dogtown,’ the birthplace of skateboard culture. 2 ACTIVITIES CYCLING & IN-LINE SKATING Get scenic exercise in-line skating or pedaling along the paved South Bay Bicycle Trail, which parallels the beach for most of the 22 miles between Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades.

Yosemite Valley Drive The only driving route in Yosemite Valley takes you past the valley’s classic sights and viewpoints, including Bridalveil Fall and Yosemite Falls. Most of this route is covered by the free Yosemite Valley and El Capitan shuttles (the latter goes as far west as the El Capitan Bridge), so consider parking the car, freeing up your hands, and doing this by public transport. The 12.5-mile loop follows the only two roads in and out of Yosemite Valley: Northside Drive and Southside Drive. Each is (mostly) one way and, as their names suggest, they sit on either side of the Merced River. Without traffic, you can easily drive the loop in less than an hour, but budget more time as you’ll want to stop frequently.


Coastal California Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

1960s counterculture, Airbnb, airport security, Albert Einstein, anti-communist, Apollo 11, Apple II, Asilomar, back-to-the-land, Bay Area Rapid Transit, bike sharing, Burning Man, buy and hold, California gold rush, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, company town, Day of the Dead, Donner party, East Village, El Camino Real, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, flex fuel, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, haute couture, haute cuisine, income inequality, intermodal, Joan Didion, Kickstarter, Loma Prieta earthquake, low cost airline, Lyft, machine readable, Mason jar, military-industrial complex, New Journalism, Northpointe / Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions, off-the-grid, Peoples Temple, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, South of Market, San Francisco, starchitect, stealth mode startup, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Stewart Brand, trade route, transcontinental railway, uber lyft, Upton Sinclair, upwardly mobile, urban sprawl, Wall-E, white picket fence, Whole Earth Catalog, women in the workforce, working poor, Works Progress Administration, young professional, Zipcar

Marin County Golden Gate Transit Ferries ( GOOGLE MAP ; %415-455-2000; www.goldengateferry.org; h6am-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm Sat & Sun) runs regular ferry services from the Ferry Building to Larkspur and Sausalito (one way $11.75). Transfers are available to Muni bus services and bicycles are permitted. Blue & Gold Fleet Ferries also operate to Tiburon or Sausalito (one way $11.50) from Pier 41. Napa Valley Get to Napa car free (weekdays only) via the Vallejo Ferry ( GOOGLE MAP ; %707-643-3779, 877-643-3779; http://sanfranciscobayferry.com), with departures from the Ferry Building docks about every hour from 6:30am to 7pm weekdays and roughly every 90 minutes from 10am to 9pm on weekends; bikes are permitted. However, the connecting bus from the Vallejo Ferry Terminal – Napa Valley Vine bus 29 to downtown Napa, Yountville, St Helena or Calistoga – operates only on weekdays.

Designed by Frederick Law Olmstead (the landscape architect of New York City’s Central Park), it’s great for walking and the views are stupendous. Oakland Hills The large parks of the Oakland Hills are ideal for day hiking and challenging cycling, and the East Bay Regional Parks (%888-327-2757; www.ebparks.org; per car free-$6; hhours vary; c#) manages more than 1200 miles of trails in 65 regional parks, preserves and recreation areas in the Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Off Hwy 24, Robert Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve is the northernmost of the Oakland Hills parks. It has great views of the Bay Area from its Round Top Peak (1761ft).

Sunshine Freestyle Surf & SportSURFING ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %831-375-5015; www.facebook.com/SunshineFreestyle; 443 Lighthouse Ave; surfboard/wetsuit/body board rental from $20/10/7; h10am-6pm Mon-Sat, 11am-5pm Sun) Monterey’s oldest surf shop rents and sells all the surfing gear you’ll need. Cycling & Mountain Biking Along an old railway line, the Monterey Peninsula Recreational Trail travels for 18 car-free miles along the waterfront, passing Cannery Row en route to Lovers Point in Pacific Grove. Road-cycling enthusiasts can make the round trip to Carmel along the 17-Mile Drive. Mountain-bikers head to Fort Ord National Monument to pedal over 80 miles of single-track and fire roads; the Sea Otter Classic (www.seaotterclassic.com) races there in mid-April.


Germany Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

Airbnb, Albert Einstein, bank run, Berlin Wall, bike sharing, Boeing 747, British Empire, call centre, capitalist realism, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, company town, double helix, Dr. Strangelove, eurozone crisis, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Gregor Mendel, haute couture, haute cuisine, high-speed rail, Honoré de Balzac, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johannes Kepler, Kickstarter, low cost airline, messenger bag, Mikhail Gorbachev, Neil Armstrong, New Urbanism, off-the-grid, oil shale / tar sands, Peace of Westphalia, Peter Eisenman, post-work, Prenzlauer Berg, retail therapy, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan: Tear down this wall, sensible shoes, Skype, starchitect, three-masted sailing ship, trade route, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban renewal, V2 rocket, white picket fence

Rügen Germany’s largest island has charmed visitors since the 19th century with its sandy beaches, white chalk cliffs and historic resorts (Click here) Halligen Islands There are more seals than people on these flat-as-a-pancake islets in the North Sea (Click here) Mainau If you love beautiful gardens, you’ll be enchanted by the profusion of tulips, dahlias, roses and orchids in this garden island owned by a member of the Swedish royal family (Click here) Helgoland Lashed by wind and waves, there’s something oddly alluring about this lone red sandstone rock in the middle of the North Sea (Click here) Hiddensee For a genuine sense of happy isolation visit this car-free Baltic island in the winter (Click here) Herreninsel This island in the Chiemsee is home to the grandest of Ludwig’s II palaces, Schloss Herrenchiemsee, a tribute to French Sun King Louis XIV (Click here) German Flavours Sure, there are pizzas and hamburgers everywhere, but for a true taste of Germany try one of these traditional dishes.

Otherwise RVO bus 9608 (www.rvo-bus.de) connects Mittenwald with Garmisch-Partenkirchen (30 minutes) several times a day. Oberstdorf 08322 / POP 9900 Spectacularly situated in the western Alps, the Allgäu region feels a long, long way from the rest of Bavaria, both in its cuisine (more Spätzle than dumplings) and the dialect, which is closer to the Swabian of Baden-Württemberg. The Allgäu’s chief draw is the car-free resort of Oberstdorf, a major skiing centre a short hop from Austria. Activities Oberstdorf is almost ringed by towering peaks and offers some top-draw hiking. In-the-know skiers value the resort for its friendliness, lower prices and less-crowded pistes. The village is surrounded by 70km of well-maintained cross-country trails and three ski fields: the Nebelhorn (half-day/day passes €32/37.50), Fellhorn/Kanzelwand (half-day/day passes €33.50/39) and Söllereck (half-day/day passes €21.50/26).

At weekends thousands flock here from Munich to enjoy the ultramodern swimming complex, Alpine slide and hiking trips down the river. Bad Tölz is also the gateway to the Tölzer Land region and its emerald-green lakes, the Walchensee and the Kochelsee. Sights & Activities Cobble-stoned and car-free, Marktstrasse is flanked by statuesque town houses with ornate overhanging eaves that look twice as high on the sloping street. Above the town, on Kalvarienberg, looms Bad Tölz’ landmark, the twin-towered Kalvarienbergkirche (Cavalry Church). This giant baroque structure stands side by side with the petite Leonhardikapelle (Leonhardi Chapel; 1718), the destination of the Leonhardi pilgrimage.


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Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy (Bicycle) by Elly Blue

2013 Report for America's Infrastructure - American Society of Civil Engineers - 19 March 2013, active transport: walking or cycling, American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card, autism spectrum disorder, big-box store, bike sharing, Boris Johnson, business cycle, car-free, congestion pricing, Donald Shoup, food desert, hydraulic fracturing, if you build it, they will come, Induced demand, job automation, Loma Prieta earthquake, medical residency, oil shale / tar sands, parking minimums, peak oil, Ponzi scheme, power law, ride hailing / ride sharing, science of happiness, the built environment, Tragedy of the Commons, urban renewal, women in the workforce, working poor, young professional

It’s no wonder that we are all driving less, but particularly young people—and not necessarily because they are discovering other ways to get around. Like I did as a teen, they are going out less. It’s the surefire consequence of a terrible economy. Nearly all U.S. teens have access to the Internet and are socializing online as an alternative to driving to the mall or hanging out in the parking lot.209 Yet what happens when these car-free youth grow up? Owning a car remains the price of admission to an adult life with job, kids, and responsibilities, in even a relatively human-scale suburban landscape like the one I grew up in. The same roads that frustrated me as insurmountable barriers when I tried to travel around under my own power as a teen made trips to the same places absurdly fast and easy when someone gave me a ride.

People started to ride on their own initiative, organizations formed, and some trails and bike lanes were built. Things really took off in places that heavily invested in bike infrastructure networks, like Davis, California and Eugene and Corvallis, Oregon—three of the top bicycle cities in the nation to this day. Popular bicycling movements were more limited here. Residents of New York City rallied for a car-free Manhattan, but for the most part organized street activism on bicycles didn’t take off. A bicycle renaissance like the one occurring in Amsterdam wasn’t meant to be, at least not yet. Bicycling had been normal and widespread prior to the rise of the car, and among children up through the 1950s.


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Road to ruin: an introduction to sprawl and how to cure it by Dom Nozzi

Boeing 747, business climate, car-free, congestion pricing, Donald Shoup, Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford, New Urbanism, Parkinson's law, place-making, Ray Oldenburg, restrictive zoning, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, skinny streets, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Great Good Place, transit-oriented development, urban decay, urban renewal, urban sprawl, walkable city, zero-sum game

(I can vouch for the fact that he is a very capable driver; he’s taken me on driving tours through some of Florida’s more egregious sprawl.) But he con-vincingly argues that, for more people, using an automobile should be an option instead of a requirement for daily survival. This is a practical and attainable vision, not a wild-eyed dream of a car-free utopia. Like each of us, his point of view is no doubt shaped by his days at the office. Nozzi works in one of those outposts on the front lines in the battle over sprawl and development, the local city planning department. Thosehalls play host to intense brawls over street design, land use, and neighborhood form.

cities developed and grew after the emergence of cars. It is no coincidence that cities across Europe, since entering the auto age, have begun to see U.S.-style sprawl. As long as we design our roads to encourage sprawl, we will be afflicted by sprawl. Sprawl is enabled by car travel (through near universal ownership of reasonably affordable cars, free and abundant parking, and high-capacity urban roads). A different path is to strive to make people the quality-of-life design imperative in our cities, and ecosystems the imperative in outlying areas. If we insist on a walkable, high quality of life in ourcommunities—even at the cost of some city squirrels and raccoons—fewer people will hop in their cars to live in remote subdivisions that have replaced outlying ecosystems.


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The Minimalist Home: A Room-By-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life by Joshua Becker

Albert Einstein, car-free, collaborative consumption, do what you love, endowment effect, estate planning, Lao Tzu, Mark Zuckerberg, mortgage debt, new economy, Paradox of Choice, side hustle, Steve Jobs

From 2004 to 2014, the number of US garages large enough to hold three or more cars increased from about 19 percent to about 23.5 percent. Dietz, “Two-Car Garage Most Common in New Homes.” Meanwhile, the average number of cars per household in the United States peaked at 2.07 in 2007. Angie Schmitt, “The American Cities with the Most Growth in Car-Free Households,” Greater Greater Washington, January 21, 2014, https://ggwash.org/view/33531/the-american-cities-with-the-most-growth-in-car-free-households. Today there are 1.9 cars per household in the United States. “Household, Individual, and Vehicle Characteristics,” Bureau of Transportation Statistics, www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/highlights_of_the_2001_national_household_travel_survey/html/section_01.html (site discontinued). 6. 


USA Travel Guide by Lonely, Planet

1960s counterculture, active transport: walking or cycling, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Albert Einstein, Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Asilomar, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Bear Stearns, Berlin Wall, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, big-box store, bike sharing, Biosphere 2, Bretton Woods, British Empire, Burning Man, California gold rush, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, congestion pricing, Cornelius Vanderbilt, cotton gin, cuban missile crisis, Day of the Dead, desegregation, Donald Trump, Donner party, Dr. Strangelove, East Village, edge city, El Camino Real, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, feminist movement, Ford Model T, Frank Gehry, gentleman farmer, gentrification, glass ceiling, global village, Golden Gate Park, Guggenheim Bilbao, Haight Ashbury, haute couture, haute cuisine, Hernando de Soto, Howard Zinn, illegal immigration, immigration reform, information trail, interchangeable parts, intermodal, jitney, Ken Thompson, Kickstarter, license plate recognition, machine readable, Mars Rover, Mason jar, mass immigration, Maui Hawaii, McMansion, Menlo Park, military-industrial complex, Monroe Doctrine, Neil Armstrong, new economy, New Urbanism, obamacare, off grid, off-the-grid, Quicken Loans, Ralph Nader, Ralph Waldo Emerson, retail therapy, RFID, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, starchitect, stealth mode startup, stem cell, supervolcano, the built environment, The Chicago School, the High Line, the payments system, three-martini lunch, trade route, transcontinental railway, union organizing, Upton Sinclair, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, Virgin Galactic, walkable city, white flight, working poor, Works Progress Administration, young professional, Zipcar

The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) service to Wantagh has a bus connection to Jones Beach. Further east, just off the southern shore, is a separate barrier island. Fire Island includes Fire Island National Seashore ( 631-289-4810; www.nps.gov) and several summer-only villages accessible by ferry from Long Island. The Fire Island Pines and Cherry Grove (both car-free) comprise a historic, gay bacchanalia that attracts men and women in droves from New York City, while villages on the west end cater to straight singles and families. There are limited places to stay, and booking in advance is strongly advised (check www.fireisland.com for accommodations information).

Insectarium MUSEUM, GARDEN Offline map Google map (www.auduboninstitute.org; 423 Canal St; adult/child $15.95/10.95; 10am-5pm; ) A supremely kid-friendly learning center that’s a joy for budding entomologists. The Japanese garden dotted with whispering butterflies is particularly beautiful. Canal Street Ferry RIVER Offline map Google map (pedestrian & cyclist/car free/$1; 6:15am-12:15am) Departing from the foot of Canal St is a fast and fabulous ride across the Mississippi to Algiers, an attractive historic neighborhood just across the river, and back. GARDEN DISTRICT & UPTOWN The main architectural division in New Orleans is between the elegant town houses of the Creole and French northeast and the magnificent mansions of the American district, settled after the Louisiana Purchase.

Top of section Great Lakes Includes » Illinois Chicago Indiana Indianapolis Ohio Cleveland Amish Country Cincinnati Michigan Detroit Wisconsin Milwaukee Minnesota Minneapolis Why Go? Don’t be fooled by all the corn. Behind it lurks surfing beaches and Tibetan temples, car-free islands and the green-draped night-lights of the aurora borealis. The Midwest takes its knocks for being middle-of-nowhere boring. So consider the moose-filled national parks, urban five-ways and Hemingway, Dylan and Vonnegut sites its little secret. Roll call for the Midwest’s cities starts with Chicago, which unfurls what is arguably the country’s mightiest skyline.


Germany by Andrea Schulte-Peevers

Albert Einstein, bank run, Berlin Wall, Boeing 747, call centre, capitalist realism, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, company town, computer age, credit crunch, Donald Trump, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Google Earth, haute couture, haute cuisine, Honoré de Balzac, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johannes Kepler, Kickstarter, low cost airline, messenger bag, Mikhail Gorbachev, New Urbanism, Peace of Westphalia, Peter Eisenman, place-making, post-work, Prenzlauer Berg, retail therapy, ride hailing / ride sharing, sensible shoes, Skype, trade route, urban planning, urban renewal, V2 rocket, white picket fence

Return to beginning of chapter GERMANY IN THE SLOW LANE Like a fine wine, some of Germany’s most memorable destinations are best appreciated in leisurely sips, not quick gulps. So say goodbye to the automobile and hello to the slow lane as you embark on a journey of discovery that will enrich you personally while also lowering your carbon footprint. Hiddensee, a tiny island on the Baltic Sea, for instance, is an entirely car-free zone, making bicycle the best way to get around. At the other end of the country, Oberstdorf in the Allgäu has also banned cars, as have most of the East Frisian Islands. Germany is criss-crossed with long-distance hiking trails, including the Rennsteig in the Thuringian Forest, one of the oldest and most famous trails in the country.

* * * HIGHLIGHTS Royal Riches Drain your camera batteries as you try to capture the magnificence of Potsdam’s Schloss Sanssouci and the park that surrounds it Click here Watery Ramblings Pull up for a forest beach picnic while kayaking through the idyllic Spreewald Biosphere Reserve Techno Marvel Rub your eyes in disbelief while watching entire barges being hoisted 60m in the air at the massive ship-lift Click here in Niederfinow Monastery Magic Feast your ears on classical music during a summer concert at the romantically ruined medieval monastery at Chorin Scorching Skates Combine exercise with sightseeing while skating or cycling along the car-free trail network of Flaeming Skate POPULATION: 2.53 MILLION AREA: 29,478 sq km * * * Return to beginning of chapter Information The excellent website maintained by Tourismus Marketing Brandenburg ( 0331-200 4747; www.brandenburg-tourism.com) should satisfy all your pretrip planning needs and also has a room-booking function.

The famous Leonhardifahrt is a pilgrimage up to the Leonhardi chapel on Kalvarienberg, where townsfolk dress up in traditional costume and ride dozens of garlanded horse carts to the strains of brass bands. Bad Tölz tourist office ( 786 70; www.bad-toelz.de; Marktstrasse 48; 9am-12.30pm & 1.30-6pm Mon-Fri, 9am-noon Sat) doubles as the museum ticket office. Return to beginning of chapter Sights & Activities ALTSTADT Cobble-stoned and car-free, Marktstrasse is flanked by statuesque town houses with ornate overhanging eaves that look twice as high on the sloping street. The Stadtmuseum ( 504 688; Marktstrasse 48; adult/concession €2/1.50; 10am-4pm, Tue-Sun) touches on practically all aspects of local culture and history, with a fine collection of painted armoires (the so-called Tölzer Kasten), a 2m-tall, single-stringed Nonnengeige, examples of traditional glass painting and a cart used in the Leonhardifahrt.


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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria

"there is no alternative" (TINA), 15-minute city, AlphaGo, An Inconvenient Truth, anti-fragile, Asian financial crisis, basic income, Bernie Sanders, Boris Johnson, butterfly effect, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, car-free, carbon tax, central bank independence, clean water, cloud computing, colonial rule, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, Credit Default Swap, David Graeber, Day of the Dead, deep learning, DeepMind, deglobalization, Demis Hassabis, Deng Xiaoping, digital divide, Dominic Cummings, Donald Trump, Edward Glaeser, Edward Jenner, Elon Musk, Erik Brynjolfsson, failed state, financial engineering, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, future of work, gentrification, George Floyd, gig economy, Gini coefficient, global pandemic, global reserve currency, global supply chain, green new deal, hiring and firing, housing crisis, imperial preference, income inequality, Indoor air pollution, invention of the wheel, Jane Jacobs, Jeff Bezos, Jeremy Corbyn, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, John Snow's cholera map, junk bonds, lockdown, Long Term Capital Management, low interest rates, manufacturing employment, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Martin Wolf, means of production, megacity, Mexican peso crisis / tequila crisis, middle-income trap, Monroe Doctrine, Nate Silver, Nick Bostrom, oil shock, open borders, out of africa, Parag Khanna, Paris climate accords, Peter Thiel, plutocrats, popular capitalism, Productivity paradox, purchasing power parity, remote working, reserve currency, reshoring, restrictive zoning, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, secular stagnation, Silicon Valley, social distancing, software is eating the world, South China Sea, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steven Pinker, Suez crisis 1956, TED Talk, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth, The Spirit Level, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas L Friedman, Tim Cook: Apple, trade route, UNCLOS, universal basic income, urban planning, Washington Consensus, white flight, Works Progress Administration, zoonotic diseases

To provide safety for the greater numbers of runners, walkers, and bikers who now avoid the subway, cities like Barcelona and New York banned cars from some streets. Parking spaces were converted into outdoor seating for socially distant dining. The moves have proved so popular that in some European cities these zones reclaimed by pedestrians may remain car-free after the virus recedes. Far from downtown, cities remain the hub, with suburbs and exurbs arrayed around it. Some people like the density of city life, others prefer to live farther out in larger homes, but come and go into the city constantly for work and entertainment. This constellation of activity will vary from place to place, but everywhere, the city is the center of the solar system around it.

,” Chicago Council on Global Affairs, February 24, 2020, https://youtu.be/55VkdnzGzhw. 139 YIMBY: Alana Semeuls, “From ‘Not in My Backyard’ to ‘Yes in My Backyard,’ ” Atlantic, July 5, 2017. 139 resoundingly reelected: “Hidalgo, Mayor since 2014, beat conservative candidate Rachida Dati in France’s municipal elections, winning 50.2% of the ballot compared to Dati’s 32%. Agnes Buzyn trailed in with just 16%”: Carlton Reid, “Anne Hidalgo Reelected as Mayor of Paris Vowing to Remove Cars and Boost Bicycling and Walking,” Forbes, June 28, 2020. 139 remain car-free: Feargus O’Sullivan, “What Happens to Public Space When Everything Moves Outside,” City Lab, May 29, 2020, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020–06–29/what-happens-to-public-space-when-everything-moves-outside. 140 “United City-States of America”: Parag Khanna, “A New Map for America,” April 15, 2016, citing Joel Kotkin’s “mega-regions.”


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Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community by Karen T. Litfin

active transport: walking or cycling, agricultural Revolution, Anthropocene, back-to-the-land, car-free, carbon footprint, clean water, collaborative consumption, Community Supported Agriculture, complexity theory, congestion pricing, corporate social responsibility, degrowth, glass ceiling, global village, hydraulic fracturing, intentional community, megacity, new economy, off grid, oil shale / tar sands, peak oil, planetary scale, publish or perish, Silicon Valley, systems thinking, the built environment, the scientific method, The Spirit Level, urban planning, Zipcar

One block away was Vermont Avenue, an interminable row of old three-story buildings that had morphed into one strip mall after another, with signs in Korean, Spanish, and other languages I didn’t recognize. The notoriously congested Hollywood Freeway was just a few blocks away, and so was a subway station. In this city, the epitome of car culture, LAEV is intent upon moving toward car-free living. With one car for every five members – about a tenth the average for the surrounding metropolitan area – this community is well on its way. Several founders of the LA County Bicycle Coalition live at LAEV, so bicycle advocacy is a way of life here, but it’s the homespun Bicycle Kitchen that most exemplifies the community’s character.

Together, they won an EPA Climate Showcase grant to create models for climate-friendly zoning and building codes. “Twenty-one years in, and we’re finally helping mainstream development!” Liz Walker observed. EVI’s third neighborhood, TREE, which was being planned when I visited, will model best practices like passive house and high-density construction, car-free common spaces, multi-use structures, community gardens, and mixed-income housing. Incorporating two other projects, an urban “pocket neighborhood” and a 26-acre suburban development, the EVI–county partnership is forging a new pedestrian neighborhood zoning ordinance. “If it works,” Liz said, “we’ll disseminate it to other cities, states, and national levels.”


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Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It by Daniel Knowles

active transport: walking or cycling, autonomous vehicles, Bandra-Worli Sea Link, bank run, big-box store, bike sharing, Boeing 747, Boris Johnson, business cycle, car-free, carbon footprint, congestion charging, congestion pricing, coronavirus, COVID-19, Crossrail, decarbonisation, deindustrialization, Detroit bankruptcy, Donald Shoup, Donald Trump, driverless car, Elaine Herzberg, Elon Musk, first-past-the-post, Ford Model T, Frank Gehry, garden city movement, General Motors Futurama, gentrification, ghettoisation, high-speed rail, housing crisis, Hyperloop, Induced demand, James Watt: steam engine, Jane Jacobs, Jeremy Corbyn, Jevons paradox, Lewis Mumford, lockdown, Lyft, megacity, megastructure, New Urbanism, Northern Rock, parking minimums, Piers Corbyn, Richard Florida, ride hailing / ride sharing, safety bicycle, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, Southern State Parkway, Steve Jobs, TED Talk, Tesla Model S, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the High Line, Traffic in Towns by Colin Buchanan, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban renewal, walkable city, white flight, white picket fence, Yom Kippur War, young professional

Since the advent of the automobile, architects and urban planners worldwide have found it almost impossible to resist building cities around roads and an assumption that most people will drive. Tokyo somehow managed not to. It rebuilt in a much more human-centric way. It may come as a surprise that Japan is home to the world’s biggest relatively car-free city. After all, Japan is the country that gave the world Mitsubishi, Toyota, and Nissan, and exports vehicles all over the world. And in fairness, a lot of Japanese people do own cars. Overall car ownership in Japan is about 590 vehicles per 1,000 people, which is less than America’s rate of about 800 per 1,000, but comparable to a lot of European countries.

The fastest-growing parts of Britain are towns like Milton Keynes or Aylesbury, a new suburb on the edge of London’s green belt. They are places you need a car. The reason walkable cities aren’t building more homes is because building housing in dense cities is difficult. NIMBYish neighbors facing a new car-free property often refuse to believe that people will not bring cars and park them on the street. Naama finds it baffling; she thinks people who need a car will not buy a property without a parking space. “You’re not going to make your life miserable, if your work is dependent on a car. Let’s say you live in downtown and you work in the suburbs—then you won’t buy a unit without a parking spot,” she says.


California by Sara Benson

airport security, Albert Einstein, Apple II, Asilomar, back-to-the-land, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Berlin Wall, Blue Bottle Coffee, Burning Man, buy and hold, California gold rush, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, Columbine, company town, dark matter, Day of the Dead, desegregation, Donald Trump, Donner party, East Village, El Camino Real, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, Frank Gehry, gentrification, global village, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, haute cuisine, Joan Didion, Khyber Pass, Loma Prieta earthquake, low cost airline, machine readable, McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit, McMansion, means of production, megaproject, Menlo Park, Neil Armstrong, Northpointe / Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions, off-the-grid, planetary scale, retail therapy, RFID, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, SpaceShipOne, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Stewart Brand, the new new thing, trade route, transcontinental railway, Upton Sinclair, urban sprawl, Wall-E, white picket fence, Whole Earth Catalog, working poor, Works Progress Administration, young professional

Amtrak’s Coast Starlight and Pacific Surfliner routes Click here reward carbon-conscious travelers with epic scenery. Although riding Greyhound buses Click here lacks the romance of the rails, you’ll definitely meet a diverse cross-section of Californians who will give you insight into the real ‘state of the state,’ something drivers cocooned inside their cars don’t get. Cities sometimes offer car-free tourism incentives, as in Santa Barbara (go to www.santabarbaracarfree.org). While hitchhiking Click here is risky, ride-sharing using online bulletin boards like Craigslist (www.craigslist.org) is not uncommon. Craigslist also has listings for vacation rentals and housing sublets, short-term jobs, community activities and fee-free classified ads for anything you might want to buy, sell or barter during your trip, whether that’s a surfboard, a pair of skis or a used car.

Stop off in San Luis Obispo and visit its farmers market. SLO is also a gateway to all-natural outdoor adventures like cycling Hwy 1 north to Big Sur or kayaking Morro Bay, where endangered species persist. Further south, beach-laden Santa Barbara offers all kinds of discounts and incentives for car-free travel Click here. In NorCal, Hopland’s Solar Living Institute has been spreading the renewable-energy message almost as long as Al Gore has. Down in the Mojave Desert, you can tour the quixotic-looking wind farms outside Palm Springs. Return to beginning of chapter History * * * STRANGER THAN FICTION GOOD WORDS & BAD DREAMS SPAIN’S MISSION IMPOSSIBLE SOAP OPERAS DOWN ON THE RANCH THE GOLDEN BEAR THE EUREKA YEARS VIGILANTES, ROBBER BARONS & THE RAILROAD THE GREAT WATER FIGHT SHAKING UP THE WILD WEST COUNTERCULTURE HITS THE MAINSTREAM TECHNO-TRENDS * * * STRANGER THAN FICTION Gold is the usual reason given for the madcap course of Californian history, but it all actually started with a dazzling pack of lies.

Private guided tours cost from $59/89 for a one-/two-tank dive. They can also advise on snorkeling in the shallow inlets of the bay. CYCLING & MOUNTAIN-BIKING With stunning scenery and paved bike paths, cycling is a popular peninsula activity. Along a former railway line, the Monterey Peninsula Recreational Trail travels 18 car-free miles from Lovers Point in Pacific Grove along the waterfront, passing Cannery Row and downtown Monterey en route to Marina, north of town. Mountain-bikers head east to Fort Ord, which has 50 miles of single-track and fire roads; the Sea Otter Classic ( 800-218-8411; www.seaotterclassic.com) races take place there in April.


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Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives by Catherine Lutz, Anne Lutz Fernandez

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, barriers to entry, Bear Stearns, book value, car-free, carbon footprint, collateralized debt obligation, congestion pricing, failed state, feminist movement, Ford Model T, fudge factor, Gordon Gekko, housing crisis, illegal immigration, income inequality, inventory management, Lewis Mumford, market design, market fundamentalism, mortgage tax deduction, Naomi Klein, Nate Silver, New Urbanism, oil shock, peak oil, Ralph Nader, Ralph Waldo Emerson, ride hailing / ride sharing, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, Thorstein Veblen, traffic fines, traumatic brain injury, Unsafe at Any Speed, urban planning, white flight, women in the workforce, working poor, Zipcar

Low-ranking military personnel—who are often both working poor and young—have also often been particularly targeted for this type of lending.33 Car title loans are another means by which people are driven closer to poverty. These loans, maybe better termed car title pawns, are made to people who own their cars free and clear. The loans function much like home equity loans, but the deed at stake is the car’s title. Companies such as Cash America and New Century Financial make short-term loans for a portion of the value of the car, with interest rates often as high as 300 percent annually. The lenders hold the title and a duplicate set of keys and, if payments are missed, swoop in to repossess and resell the car.

A national transit policy based on much more ambitious goals than the ones advocated by those groups could produce a system that shifts tax policy and subsidy support away from cars and toward convenient, eco-friendly public transit—not just for city and suburb but for country and exurb—and fosters government regulation of the auto companies to make cars cheaper, safer, and cleaner. Here’s how we reach both the modest goal of reducing car use, and the more ambitious goals of remaking our transit system so that we can allow more people to live car-free, slash transit’s contribution to global warming, and create more jobs in a sustainable economy. As you’ll see, our prescription does not require us to give up the real freedom that cars can provide. It does, however, point us toward a healthier, more balanced car culture that minimizes the manifold prices we pay for this freedom.


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The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China by David Eimer

back-to-the-land, Berlin Wall, British Empire, car-free, Deng Xiaoping, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Great Leap Forward, high-speed rail, illegal immigration, mass immigration, megacity, offshore financial centre, open borders, South China Sea

Gyantse’s monastery dominates one end of the Tibetan old town, almost burrowing its way in to the hills behind it. At the other end, a ruined fort, or dzong, lies atop a precipitously rocky hill that rises incongruously close to the centre of town. It looms over low-rise Gyantse like a crumbling castle guarding a loch in Scotland. Between those two landmarks, the old town’s mostly car-free main street is lined by two- and three-storey white-stone houses. Their window frames and doors were outlined in black, some bearing the gyung drung, the Tibetan Buddhist swastika. Women in long black dresses and bangden walked home with baskets of shopping, along with monks and people going to and from the monastery, prayer wheels in hand.

I ate a lot of cabbage in the far north, one of the few vegetables that can be stored throughout the winter, and became accustomed to the lack of fresh fruit. Mohe’s residents, like those of most Chinese small towns, are friendly. They were both chuffed and intrigued to have a foreign visitor who wasn’t a Russian from over the border eighty kilometres away. Mohe’s quiet, surprisingly car-free streets too ensure it is far more pleasant than most places of an equivalent size in China. It is a modern town now, after an inferno in 1985 reduced most of its original wooden houses to ashes. Many of the new buildings are in a mock-Russian style, with peaked red roofs, domes and ornate façades.


Lonely Planet France by Lonely Planet Publications

banking crisis, bike sharing, British Empire, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, Charles Lindbergh, Columbine, David Sedaris, double helix, Frank Gehry, G4S, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute couture, haute cuisine, Henri Poincaré, Herbert Marcuse, high-speed rail, Honoré de Balzac, illegal immigration, Jacquard loom, Joseph-Marie Jacquard, Kickstarter, Louis Blériot, Louis Pasteur, low cost airline, Mahatma Gandhi, mass immigration, Murano, Venice glass, ride hailing / ride sharing, sensible shoes, Silicon Valley, Suez canal 1869, supervolcano, three-masted sailing ship, trade route, urban renewal, urban sprawl, V2 rocket

Ski school École du Ski Français ( Click here ) initiates kids in the art of snow plough (group or private lessons, half- or full day) from four years old, and many resorts open their fun-driven jardins de neige (snow gardens) to kids from three years old. Families with kids aged under 10 will find smaller resorts like Les Gets, Avoriaz (car-free), La Clusaz, Chamrousse and Le Grand Bornand easier to navigate and better value than larger ski stations. Then, of course, there is all the fun of the fair off-piste: ice skating, sledging, snowshoeing and mushing. The French Alps and Pyrenees are prime walking areas. Tourist offices have information on easy, well-signposted family walks – or get in touch with a local guide.

Use is free for the first 30 minutes; the 2nd/3rd/4th and subsequent half-hours cost €1/2/4 each. BUS Rouen’s bus lines are operated by TCAR ( 02 35 52 52 52; www.tcar.fr) . The most useful routes for travellers are the T2 and T3, which serve the Auberge de Jeunesse Robec. A single-journey ticket costs €1.50. CAR Free parking is available across the Seine from the city centre, along and below quai Jean Moulin. METRO Rouen’s metro ( 02 35 52 52 52; www.tcar.fr) runs from 5am (6am on Sunday) to about 11pm and is useful for getting from the train station to the centre of town. One ticket costs €1.50. There are Espace Métrobus ticket offices inside the train station.

Getting There & Around BUS The bus station ( 02 31 89 28 41) is two blocks east of the tourist office. Bus Verts ( 08 10 21 42 14; www.busverts.fr) services include an express bus to Caen (€11, one hour): Caen €7.95, two hours, 12 daily Monday to Saturday, six Sunday Deauville & Trouville €2.30, 30 minutes Le Havre €4.50, 35 minutes, eight daily Monday to Saturday, four Sunday CAR Free parking is available next to Naturospace, which is 600m from the Avant Port on bd Charles V. TRAIN To catch the train (eg to Paris), take the bus to Deauville or Le Havre. MANCHE The Manche département (www.manchetourisme.com) encompasses the entire Cotentin Peninsula, stretching from Utah Beach northwest to Cherbourg and southwest to the magnificent Mont St-Michel.


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Berlitz: Sardinia Pocket Guide (Berlitz Pocket Guides) by Apa

car-free, centre right, low cost airline

Popular trips are the Maddalena Archipelago, either on a day's organised excursion or by ferry from Palau; the island of Tavorola east of Olbia; and the pristine beaches on Nuoro's east coast, accessible by boat from Cala Gonone. Sightseeing Unless your child is a budding archaeologist, interest in the prehistoric nuraghic stone cones and archaeological museums is bound to wane after a while. More appealing are hilltop castles, grottoes and catacombs. Of the main towns, Alghero has the most to offer: car-free alleys, seafront walks, medieval towers, a lively port and exciting boat trips to the Grotta di Nettuno. The Aquarium, though not spectacular, has more than 100 species of fish. Sardinia is ideal for families APA/Sylvaine Poitau Sports With 1,800km (1,125 miles) of coastline and clear blue waters, Sardinia is ideal for all types of water sports.


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In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist by Pete Jordan

active transport: walking or cycling, bike sharing, business process, car-free, centre right, fixed-gear, German hyperinflation, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, post-work, Suez crisis 1956, urban planning

Where attitudes about cars and bikes were concerned, a corner was definitely being turned. THE 1973 OIL embargo and resulting energy crisis caused a great many people to reconsider the role of the automobile in Amsterdam. In this context of expanding environmental and ecological awareness, in early 1974, several neighborhood and activist groups joined to form Amsterdam Autovrij (Car-Free Amsterdam)—an umbrella group with the mission to reduce the number of cars in the capital. In May 1974, Amsterdam Autovrij organized the city’s first large-scale pro-bike/anti-car protest. One thousand cyclists assembled on Dam Square and then, for two hours, they cycled as a pack through the streets.

Van Duijn not only pedaled his ten-speed in the bike-demo, he also addressed the cyclists at the ride’s conclusion on Amstelveld, where he told the crowd, “A bike is just about nothing, that’s why it’s so good.” In addition, Van Duijn called for the city center to be free of car traffic for a full week in 1975. Afterward, despite his earlier pledge, Mayor Samkalden did not resign. Instead, he called the planting of crosses tasteless and jettisoned the idea of a car-free week. Van Duijn’s antics led to further disdain from his fellow wethouders. Two weeks after the October 1974 bike demo, Labor Party wethouder for economic affairs Cees de Cloe snapped at Van Duijn: “You’re working against me. How am I supposed to carry out an economic policy if you’re riding a bike and babbling about windmills?”


Eastern USA by Lonely Planet

1960s counterculture, active transport: walking or cycling, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Albert Einstein, Apollo 11, Bear Stearns, Berlin Wall, bike sharing, Bretton Woods, British Empire, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, Charles Lindbergh, collective bargaining, congestion pricing, Cornelius Vanderbilt, cotton gin, cuban missile crisis, Day of the Dead, desegregation, Donald Trump, East Village, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Ford Model T, Frank Gehry, gentleman farmer, gentrification, glass ceiling, Guggenheim Bilbao, haute cuisine, Hernando de Soto, illegal immigration, immigration reform, information trail, interchangeable parts, jitney, Ken Thompson, Kickstarter, license plate recognition, machine readable, Mason jar, mass immigration, McMansion, megacity, Menlo Park, Neil Armstrong, new economy, New Urbanism, obamacare, Quicken Loans, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, Skype, the built environment, the High Line, the payments system, three-martini lunch, transcontinental railway, union organizing, Upton Sinclair, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, walkable city, white flight, Works Progress Administration, young professional

The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) service to Wantagh has a bus connection to Jones Beach. Further east, just off the southern shore, is a separate barrier island. Fire Island includes Fire Island National Seashore ( 631-289-4810; www.nps.gov) and several summer-only villages accessible by ferry from Long Island. The Fire Island Pines and Cherry Grove (both car-free) comprise a historic, gay bacchanalia that attracts men and women in droves from New York City, while villages on the west end cater to straight singles and families. There are limited places to stay, and booking in advance is strongly advised (check www.fireisland.com for accommodations information).

Insectarium MUSEUM, GARDEN (www.auduboninstitute.org; 423 Canal St; adult/child $15.95/10.95; 10am-5pm; ) A supremely kid-friendly learning center that’s a joy for budding entomologists. The Japanese garden dotted with whispering butterflies is particularly beautiful. Canal Street Ferry RIVER (pedestrian & cyclist/car free/$1; 6:15am-12:15am) Departing from the foot of Canal St is a fast and fabulous ride across the Mississippi to Algiers, an attractive historic neighborhood just across the river, and back. GARDEN DISTRICT & UPTOWN The main architectural division in New Orleans is between the elegant town houses of the Creole and French northeast and the magnificent mansions of the American district, settled after the Louisiana Purchase.

Top of section Great Lakes Includes » Illinois Chicago Indiana Indianapolis Ohio Cleveland Amish Country Cincinnati Michigan Detroit Wisconsin Milwaukee Minnesota Minneapolis Why Go? Don’t be fooled by all the corn. Behind it lurks surfing beaches and Tibetan temples, car-free islands and the green-draped night-lights of the aurora borealis. The Midwest takes its knocks for being middle-of-nowhere boring. So consider the moose-filled national parks, urban five-ways and Hemingway, Dylan and Vonnegut sites its little secret. Roll call for the Midwest’s cities starts with Chicago, which unfurls what is arguably the country’s mightiest skyline.


Greece Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

active transport: walking or cycling, Airbnb, capital controls, car-free, carbon footprint, credit crunch, haute couture, haute cuisine, illegal immigration, indoor plumbing, Kickstarter, low cost airline, pension reform, period drama, sensible shoes, trade route, urban sprawl

KTEL Kastoria runs special festival buses to Nestorio. 4Sleeping Arhondiko tou VergoulaB&B€ ( GOOGLE MAP ; %24670 23415; www.vergoulas.gr; Aidistras 14; s/d/tr incl breakfast €40/50/60; W) Restored but still rustic, this 150-year-old Doltso mansion comes with soothing lake views, while its traditional rooms, plus cosy breakfast/dinner salon, add homespun charm. Anesis HotelHOTEL€ ( GOOGLE MAP ; %24670 83908; www.anesishotelkastoria.gr; Grammou 10; s/d incl breakfast €40/50; naW) If you're travelling car-free or have an early start at the bus station, Anesis' central location can't be beaten. The enormously helpful service, comfortable rooms and filling breakfast make it worthy of more than a quick stopover. oIdistonAPARTMENTS€€ ( GOOGLE MAP ; %6944397909, 24670 22250; www.idiston.gr; Leoforos Megalou Alexandrou 91; s/d/tr €50/60/75) Relaxing lake views unfold from the balconies of many of these spacious suites.

Aegina is home to a spectacular Doric temple and ruined Byzantine village, while nearby pine-clad Angistri feels protected and peaceful outside of the booming midsummer months. Further south, Poros, with its forested hinterland, curves only a few hundred metres from the Peloponnese. The Saronic showpiece, Hydra, is a gorgeous car-free island with a port of carefully preserved stone houses rising from a chic, history-charged harbour. Deepest south of all, pine-scented Spetses also has a vibrant nautical history and pretty town architecture, plus myriad aqua coves only minutes from the Peloponnese. When to Go AApr & May The islands awaken after winter; come for flower-filled Easter.

Along its western flank in particular, the scenery is utterly spectacular, with the coastal highway lined with pink oleanders and forming a slender strip between steepling crags above and dazzling blue waters below. Kalymnos is also greener than most of its neighbours, cradling fertile valleys and verdant enclaves. Add the enticing, car-free islet of Telendos, immediately offshore, and you have a compelling destination. To do it justice, you’ll need to allow at least three days, and ideally rent your own transport. While its sponge-fishing heyday is long past, Kalymnos remains inextricably entwined with the sea. Its turquoise bays hold some delightful beaches, albeit largely pebble rather than sand, while gastronomic treats include octopus in ouzo, and spinialo (devilfish and urchins in seawater).


The Rough Guide to England by Rough Guides

active transport: walking or cycling, Airbnb, Albert Einstein, Apollo 11, bike sharing, Bletchley Park, Bob Geldof, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, British Empire, car-free, Columbine, company town, congestion charging, Corn Laws, country house hotel, Crossrail, deindustrialization, Downton Abbey, Edmond Halley, Etonian, food miles, gentrification, Great Leap Forward, haute cuisine, housing crisis, Isaac Newton, James Watt: steam engine, Jeremy Corbyn, John Harrison: Longitude, Kickstarter, low cost airline, Neil Kinnock, offshore financial centre, period drama, plutocrats, Suez canal 1869, Suez crisis 1956, the market place, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, University of East Anglia, upwardly mobile, urban sprawl

Turn up in any National Park area and local information offices will be able to advise on anything from a family stroll to a full day out on the mountains. For shorter walks, you could check out the National Trust website (nationaltrust.org.uk), which details picturesque routes of varying lengths that weave through or near their properties. If you’re travelling on public transport, consult the user-generated site Car Free Walks (carfreewalks.org), which details hundreds of routes that set off and finish at train stations and bus stops, providing OS map links and elevation profiles for each. For walks within day-trip distance of London by public transport, check out the Rough Guide to Walks in London & the Southeast.

The former Granary building itself is home to Central Saint Martins, part of the University of the Arts. To find out more about the development, visit King’s Cross Visitor Centre to the side of the Granary building, which has a model of the development and from where you can take a guided tour (1hr 30min; free; book online). Largely car-free, with plenty of green spaces and frequent pop-up markets and events, the whole area is fun to explore. Walk along the canal, past the picturesque St Pancras Lock, and you reach a cluster of brooding Victorian gasholders, one framing a landscaped park with mirrored pergola, Gasholder Park. On the other side of the canal, connected by a pedestrian bridge, is Camley Street Natural Park, which was transformed into a wildlife haven of woodland sand ponds in the 1980s

< Back to The Southeast Canterbury The fine old city of CANTERBURY offers a rich slice through two thousand years of English history, with Roman and early Christian remains, a ruined Norman castle and a famous cathedral that looms over a medieval warren of time-skewed Tudor buildings. Its compact centre, partly ringed by ancient walls, is virtually car-free, but this doesn’t stop the High Street seizing up in high summer with the milling crowds. Brief history The city that began as a Belgic settlement was known as Durovernum Cantiacorum to the Romans, who established a garrison and supply base here, and was renamed Cantwaraburg by the Saxons.


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The Rough Guide to Toronto by Helen Lovekin, Phil Lee

airport security, British Empire, car-free, glass ceiling, global village, Haight Ashbury, haute couture, haute cuisine, indoor plumbing, Jane Jacobs, joint-stock company, Khyber Pass, Kickstarter, Marshall McLuhan, megacity, place-making, urban renewal, urban sprawl

Here, Kew Beach Park, situated just below Queen Street, is a picture-perfect spot with rolling, grassy hills and a sandy beachfront that is delightful even on a packed Sunday afternoon. Balmy Beach is separated from Kew Beach by a tiny inlet at the foot of Silverbirch Avenue, but there is very little distinction between the two – despite what some locals may say, Balmy’s beach and parklands are just as nice as Kew’s. Slightly west of Kew Beach, unspoiled, car-free Cherry Beach is a favourite among hikers, birdwatchers and cyclists. It begins at Ashbridges Bay Park, which is at the corner of Lakeshore Boulevard East and Coxwell Avenue. Signs inside the park point out the Martin Goodman Trail, a hiking route that spans the entire Toronto waterfront. THE S UBURBS Queen Street and led to the sparsely settled Beaches.

Parks with baseball diamonds also have soccer pitches chalked out for the use of local teams or for neighbourhood pickup matches. Access to the parks is free, but it may be necessary to book ahead for organized matches through the Toronto Parks and Recreation department (see p.204). S P O RT S A N D O U T D O O R AC T I V I T I E S Soccer 207 known as Tommy Thompson Park), a car-free zone that stretches out like a skinny finger into Lake Ontario from the foot of Leslie Street beyond Ashbridges Bay. Various cycling routes can be downloaded from either the Toronto Parks and Recreation website (see p.204) or the Toronto Bike Plan website (W www .toronto.city.on.ca/cycling/bikeplan).


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Frommer's Los Angeles 2010 by Matthew Richard Poole

call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, Charles Lindbergh, clean water, Donald Trump, El Camino Real, Ford Model T, Frank Gehry, gentrification, Guggenheim Bilbao, Haight Ashbury, Joan Didion, Maui Hawaii, Saturday Night Live, sustainable-tourism, upwardly mobile

., Los Angeles; & 800/421-9092): M y favorite Downtown lodging is this venerable 1925 building re-created as a Spanish colonial–G othic palace. F un and funky, the ex otically decorated guest rooms hav e far mor e style than y our average hotel; what ’s mor e, this gentrified corner of D owntown offers easy , car-free Metro Line access to Hollywood and Universal Studios. See p. 95. • The H otel C alifornia (1670 O cean Ave., S anta M onica; & 866/5710000): You’ll like livin ’ it up at this hacienda-style beachfr ont motel that charges less than half the price of its fancy-pants neighbors. You’ll dig the hotel’s sur fer/sun-worshiper ambience, cheery r ooms with California-themed decor, and dir ect access to the sand via a private path.

INEXPENSIVE W H E R E TO S TAY Best Western Holly wood Hills Hotel H O L LY W O O D 5 Location is a big selling point for this family-owned (since 1948) member of the r eliable Best Western chain: It’s just off U.S. 101 (the H ollywood Fwy.); a M etro Line stop just 3 blocks away means easy , car-free access to U niversal Studios; and the famed H ollywood and Vine intersection is just a 5-minute walk away . The entir e hotel has been r ecently r enovated in a contemporar y style, and all the spiffy guest r ooms come with a r efrigerator, coffeemaker, microwave, and wireless Internet. The rooms in the back building ar e my fav orites, as they sit w ell back from busy Franklin Avenue, face the gleaming blue-tiled, heated outdoor pool, and have an attractive view of the neighboring hillside.

Every rental comes with a free tour map, a safety helmet, a bike lock, and a handlebar bag for storage. In the South Bay, bike rentals—including tandem bikes—are available 1 block fr om The Strand at Hermosa Cyclery, 20 13th St. (& 310/374-7816; www.hermosacyclery. com). Cruisers are $7 per hour; tandems are $13 per hour. FYI, The Strand is an excellent car-free path that’s tailor-made for a leisurely bike ride. FISHING Del R ey S port F ishing, 13759 F iji Way, M arina del R ey ( & 800/8223625; www.marinadelreysportfishing.com), has three deep-sea boats depar ting daily on half- and full-day ocean fishing trips. O f course, it depends on what ’s r unning when you’re out, but bass, barracuda, halibut, and y ellowtail are the most common catches on these party boats.


Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age by Lizabeth Cohen

activist lawyer, affirmative action, Albert Einstein, anti-communist, benefit corporation, British Empire, Buckminster Fuller, car-free, charter city, deindustrialization, desegregation, Edward Glaeser, garden city movement, General Motors Futurama, gentrification, ghettoisation, Henry Ford's grandson gave labor union leader Walter Reuther a tour of the company’s new, automated factory…, hiring and firing, housing crisis, income inequality, indoor plumbing, Jane Jacobs, land reform, Lewis Mumford, megastructure, new economy, New Urbanism, Peter Eisenman, postindustrial economy, race to the bottom, rent control, Robert Gordon, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, subprime mortgage crisis, tech worker, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, union organizing, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, Victor Gruen, Vilfredo Pareto, walkable city, War on Poverty, white flight, white picket fence, young professional

Earlier that fall, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art titled The Island Nobody Knows and its accompanying catalog unveiled a master plan commissioned by the committee from the well-known architect Philip Johnson and his then partner John Burgee.99 Johnson and Burgee’s plan took advantage of Welfare Island’s natural strengths—plentiful waterfront and impressive panoramas of Manhattan and Queens—in proposing a mixed-use, urban-style, car-free community of five thousand apartments to house approximately eighteen thousand residents of diverse economic status. Not far from the bright lights of Manhattan by subway, it offered New Yorkers a quieter, more spacious living environment. Flats ranged in size from efficiencies to four-bedrooms for large families.

A Swedish-inspired automated vacuum sanitation system (known as AVAC) whisked all domestic trash through giant pneumatic vacuum tubes buried under the street to a central refuse disposal site for compacting. Free, quiet, nonpolluting, battery-powered electric minibuses transported residents around the car-free island to and from the central thousand-car Motorgate garage, near the only bridge access, from Queens. This complimentary public transit and plentiful pedestrian pathways eliminated any social distinctions based on automobile ownership, putting all residents on an equal footing. When it became clear that the subway would be delayed beyond the opening of the first apartments (it didn’t actually operate until 1989), Logue’s team came up with the clever idea of installing a gondola-style aerial tramway—which soon became the island’s icon—from there to Manhattan’s East 60th Street, its first use in an urban environment worldwide.

(NEW YORK STATE URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ANNUAL REPORT, 1969) ROOSEVELT ISLAND, LOGUE’S UTOPIA IN THE EAST RIVER. Roosevelt Island embodied Logue’s idealistic goals for the UDC. Like the other two New Towns that the UDC built in upstate New York, it aimed to mix residents along income and racial lines. It was also car-free and handicap accessible, long before the latter was common, and it used technology in innovative ways. (THE ROOSEVELT ISLAND HOUSING COMPETITION, NEW YORK STATE URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION [BOOKLET], 1974) PRESERVING HISTORIC STRUCTURES ON NEW ROOSEVELT ISLAND. Historic buildings already on the island, like the Chapel of the Good Shepherd here being repurposed as a meeting and interfaith facility, were incorporated into the UDC’s “New-Town-in-Town,” a commitment to preservation that Logue had learned in Boston.


City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age by P. D. Smith

active transport: walking or cycling, Albert Einstein, Andrew Keen, Anthropocene, augmented reality, banking crisis, Berlin Wall, British Empire, Broken windows theory, Buckminster Fuller, Burning Man, business cycle, car-free, carbon footprint, classic study, clean water, colonial rule, congestion charging, congestion pricing, cosmological principle, crack epidemic, double entry bookkeeping, Dr. Strangelove, edge city, Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse, en.wikipedia.org, Enrique Peñalosa, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Ford Model T, Frank Gehry, garden city movement, General Motors Futurama, gentrification, global village, haute cuisine, income inequality, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invention of gunpowder, Jane Jacobs, John Snow's cholera map, Kevin Kelly, Kibera, Kickstarter, Kowloon Walled City, Lewis Mumford, Masdar, megacity, megastructure, multicultural london english, mutually assured destruction, New Urbanism, Norman Mailer, peak oil, pneumatic tube, RFID, smart cities, starchitect, telepresence, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The future is already here, the High Line, Thomas Malthus, trade route, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, Victor Gruen, walkable city, white flight, white picket fence, young professional

Rather, people should be attracted to the city by its atmosphere – the vibrancy of its street life and urban culture. Pedestrianised areas play a significant role in creating this. Today Copenhagen’s pedestrian network has expanded to about 100,000 square metres, making it one of the most extensive in the world, a model of urbanism copied from Melbourne to Montreal.56 Europe’s largest car-free urban zone is Vauban in south-west Germany. The rate of car ownership in this pioneering development is 220 per 1,000 residents, compared to 520 per 1,000 in the nearby city of Freiburg im Breisgau. Seventy per cent of Vauban’s families do not own a car. Those that do have to leave it in the multi-storey car park on the outskirts for an annual charge of £12,500 per parking space.

Tourists and New Yorkers alike loved the pedestrianised area so much that it was made permanent in 2010.61 In Paris each summer since 2002 a section of the two-lane urban expressway (the Voie Georges Pompidou) on the Right Bank of the Seine has been turned into an urban beach – the ‘Paris Plage’ – complete with sand and deckchairs. In 2010, the city’s mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, proposed permanently changing stretches of the road on the Left Bank and part of the Right Bank from a ‘motorway’ into a ‘human, lived-in boulevard’, with parks, foot and cycle paths.62 Despite its love affair with the car, Shanghai has also embraced car-free urban zones, as in the recent redevelopment of Xintiandi in the Shikumen neighbourhood.63 In the twenty-first century, the threat of climate change and concerns about pollution have turned the car from saviour to villain. As well as walking and cycling, public transport is enjoying a renaissance in many cities.


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Fodor's California 2014 by Fodor's

1960s counterculture, active transport: walking or cycling, affirmative action, Asilomar, Bay Area Rapid Transit, big-box store, Blue Bottle Coffee, California gold rush, car-free, centre right, Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, Donner party, Downton Abbey, East Village, El Camino Real, Frank Gehry, gentrification, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, high-speed rail, housing crisis, Kickstarter, Maui Hawaii, messenger bag, Mikhail Gorbachev, Northpointe / Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions, off-the-grid, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, trade route, transcontinental railway, urban renewal, urban sprawl, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration, young professional

“Up” the coast toward San Francisco is west, “down” toward Los Angeles is east, and the mountains are north. Getting Here and Around U.S. 101 is the main route into Santa Barbara. If you’re staying in town, a car is handy but not essential; the beaches and downtown are easily explored by bicycle or on foot. Visit the Santa Barbara Car Free website for bike-route and walking-tour maps and car-free vacation packages with substantial lodging, dining, activity, and transportation discounts. Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District’s Line 22 bus serves major tourist sights. Several bus lines connect with the very convenient electric shuttles that cruise the downtown and waterfront every 10 to 15 minutes (50¢ each way).

You can also take Yosemite Audio Adventures CD tours with you as you explore the park. It’s Easy Being Green The Golden State is glowing green all over. It’s the only state in the nation to mandate green building codes for all new construction to reduce greenhouse emissions. Santa Barbara’s car-free program can save you up to 50% on lodging, meals, and, of course, transportation. Palm Desert is also pushing green, not only in sustainable construction but also in encouraging use of golf carts for local transportation. Homegrown Hospitality Agritourism in California isn’t new (remember, Knott’s Berry Farm once was a berry farm), but it is on the rise, with farm tours and agricultural festivals sprouting up everywhere.

Tour options include the waterfront (1¼ hours), Butterfly Beach and Montecito (2 hours), historic downtown Santa Barbara (2½ hours), and through town to the mission (3 hours). This outfit also rents electric bikes. | 16 Helena Ave., at Cabrillo Blvd. | 93101 | 805/963–7672 | www.segwayofsb.com | $65–$110. Essentials Transportation Contacts Santa Barbara Car Free. | 805/696–1100 | www.santabarbaracarfree.org. Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District. | 805/963–3366 | www.sbmtd.gov. Santa Barbara Trolley Co. | 805/965–0353 | www.sbtrolley.com. Visitor Information Santa Barbara Visitor Center. | 1 Garden St., at Cabrillo Blvd. | 93101 | 805/965–3021, 805/568–1811 | www.sbchamber.org | Mon.


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Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions by Christian Lander

car-free, carbon footprint, colonial rule, David Sedaris, fixed-gear, Frank Gehry, gentrification, Slavoj Žižek

White people all support the idea of public transportation and will be happy to tell you about how subways and streetcars/trams have helped to energize cities like Chicago and Portland. They will tell you all about the energy and cost savings of having people abandon their cars for public transportation and how they hope that one day they can live in a city where they will be car-free. At this point, you are probably thinking about the massive number of buses that serve your city and how you have never seen a white person riding them. To a white person a bus is essentially a giant minivan that continually stops to pick up progressively smellier people. You should never, ever point this out to a white person.


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Bike Snob by BikeSnobNYC

book value, call centre, car-free, fixed-gear, gentrification, Kickstarter, messenger bag, safety bicycle, urban sprawl

Thankfully it wasn’t long before I found myself in the residential neighborhood of Kew Gardens, which has a good-sized Orthodox Jewish community. Here Main Street was as quiet as you please, due mostly to the fact that it was Shabbat and nobody was driving. A historical sign confirmed that 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 another cyclist. Exceedingly pleased, I bid him an enthusiastic “Ahoy!” but he clearly thought I was disturbed and did his best to ignore me. Also for the first time on my ride I saw one of those “Share the Road” signs with a picture of a bicycle on it.


The Complete Android Guide: 3Ones by Kevin Purdy

car-free, card file, crowdsourcing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Google Earth, Googley, John Gruber, lock screen, QR code, Skype, speech recognition, telemarketer, turn-by-turn navigation

You can tell Vlingo to "Call Dave on Mobile," "Text Jim Message: Meet me at Sonic," "Find copy store in Charlotte," and much more. A bonus feature that's almost another app: SafeReader, a feature and home screen widget you can enable to have your incoming text messages and emails read to you out loud, presumably while you're in the car. (Free) Tutorials: Keyboard Shorcuts T-Mobile G2, with Keyboard Extended Not every Android phone features a physical keyboard with buttons to press, and not every keyboard is built the same. Still, for those Android phones with actual QWERTY, or "hard," keys, there are shortcuts that can launch apps, speed around text, and generally move faster than touching and tapping.


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Frommer's California 2007 by Harry Basch, Mark Hiss, Erika Lenkert, Matthew Richard Poole

airport security, Asilomar, Bay Area Rapid Transit, car-free, Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, clean water, Columbine, Donald Trump, Donner party, East Village, El Camino Real, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Frank Gehry, gentleman farmer, gentrification, Golden Gate Park, Guggenheim Bilbao, Haight Ashbury, high-speed rail, indoor plumbing, Iridium satellite, Joan Didion, Maui Hawaii, retail therapy, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, sustainable-tourism, transcontinental railway, upwardly mobile, urban sprawl, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration

From exploring caverns to riding in the stagecoach and panning for gold, the neighboring towns of Angels Camp, Murphys, Columbia, Sonora, and Jamestown offer a cornucopia of Gold Rush–related sites, museums, and activities. It’s a great place to bring the family (kids love roaming around the dusty car-free streets of Columbia), and the region offers some of the best lodgings and restaurants in the Gold Country. In short, if you’re the Type A sort who needs to stay active, the southern Gold Country is for you. For information about lodging, dining, events, and the arts and entertainment in the area, contact the Tuolumne County Visitors Bureau, P.O.

In room: A/C, TV w/pay movies, high-speed dataport, minibar, coffeemaker, hair dryer, video games. INEXPENSIVE Best Western Hollywood Hills Hotel Location is a big selling point for this family-owned (since 1948) member of the reliable Best Western chain: It’s just off U.S. 101 (the Hollywood Freeway); a Metro Line stop just 3 blocks away means easy, car-free access to Universal Studios; and the famed Hollywood and Vine intersection is just a 5-minute walk away. The entire hotel was recently renovated in a contemporary style, and all the spiffy guest rooms come with a refrigerator, coffeemaker, microwave, and Wi-Fi. The rooms in the back building are my favorites, away from busy Franklin Avenue, facing the gleaming blue-tiled, heated outdoor pool, with an attractive view of the neighboring hillside.

DOWNTOWN E X P E N S I V E / M O D E R AT E Traditionally the domain of business folk and convention attendees, downtown L.A. is becoming increasingly attractive to leisure travelers for several reasons: a Rudy Giuliani–style cleanup in the late 1990s; a growing number of cultural attractions and destination dining; excellent-value weekend packages at luxury hotels that empty out once the workweek ends; and easy, car-free access via the Metro Line to Hollywood and Universal Studios. Every freeway passes through downtown, so it’s a breeze to hop in the car and head to other neighborhoods, except during rush hour. Consider yourself forewarned, however: Despite low weekend rates, downtown L.A. can feel like a ghost town, particularly after dusk.


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Lonely Planet Florence & Tuscany by Lonely Planet, Virginia Maxwell, Nicola Williams

Bonfire of the Vanities, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, Costa Concordia, G4S, haute couture, Kickstarter, period drama, post-work, retail therapy, Skype, trade route

Advance reservations essential, especially on Sunday when Lucchese families flock here for Villa Bongi’s outstanding-value lunch – three courses, wine, water and coffee for €20 (kids under 10 years €5). Shopping Via Fillungo is the main shopping strip, and what a joy too with its tiny boutiques and car-free mantra. Don’t miss the tiny microbrewery at No 90 where you can taste and buy Italian craft beers. Premium FASHION MAP GOOGLE MAP (www.premiumfashionboutique.it; Via Fillungo 90; 3.30-7.30pm Mon, 10am-1pm & 3.30-7.30pm Tue-Fri, 9.30am-8pm Sat) No fashion boutique has quite so much charm. A 1950s-styled interior complements the mix of hip contemporary and vintage labels that embrace everything from cashmere scarves and handmade hats to the latest in shoe design.

Versilia is a major gateway to both the Apuane Alps, Garfagnana and Lunigiana with roads from the coastal towns snaking their way deep into the heart of the mountains and connecting with small villages and walking tracks. Top of Chapter Pietrasanta pop 24,900 Often overlooked by Tuscan travellers, this refined art town is a real unexpected surprise. Its bijou historic heart, originally walled, is car-free and loaded with tiny art galleries, workshops and fashion boutiques – perfect for a day’s amble broken only by lunch. Founded by Guiscardo da Pietrasanta, podestà (governing magistrate) of Lucca in 1255, Pietrasanta was seen as a prize by Genoa, Lucca, Pisa and Florence, all of whom jostled for possession of its marble quarries and bronze foundries.


Rome by Lonely Planet

bike sharing, bread and circuses, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, double helix, G4S, gentrification, Index librorum prohibitorum, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, low cost airline, Murano, Venice glass, Pier Paolo Pasolini, retail therapy, Skype, urban planning

For something completely different, Rome’s cheesy wax museum, the Museo delle Cere (Click here ), gives the chance to go face to face with popes, rockstars, footie players and opera singers. Villa Borghese, Parks & the Zoo When the time comes to let the kids off the leash, head to Villa Borghese (Click here ), the most central of Rome’s main parks. Here there’s plenty of space to run around in – though it’s not absolutely car-free – and bikes to hire. The park is also home to Bioparco (Click here ), Rome’s zoo. It isn’t cheap, and it’s not the best zoo in the world, but after dragging your loved ones to all those churches and museums, it is an option. Not For Parents For an insight into Rome aimed directly at kids, pick up a copy of Lonely Planet’s Not for Parents: Rome .

Need to Know ➡ Area Code 05010 ➡ Location 120km northwest of Rome ➡ Tourist Office ( 07 6334 1772; info@iat.orvieto.tr.it; Piazza Duomo 24; 8.15am–1.50pm & 4–7pm Mon–Fri, 10am–1pm & 3–6pm Sat, Sun & holidays) Orvieto Eating | Drinking Sights Perched precariously on a cliff made of the area’s tufa stone, besides its magnificent cathedral, Orvieto also houses an important collection of Etruscan artefacts, and the cliff beneath is riddled with a fascinating series of ancient underground caves. If you’re planning extensive sightseeing in the town, a good investment is the Carta Unica (adult/concession €18/15) , which includes five hours’ free parking, a return trip on the cable car, free bus transport, and admission (only once) to the Cappella di San Brizio in the cathedral, Museo Claudio Faina e Civico, Orvieto Underground, Torre del Moro, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo and the Crocifisso del Tufo necropolis (the last is at the foot of the rock massif on which Orvieto stands). It’s available at participating sites and next door to the tourist office.


San Francisco by Lonely Planet

airport security, Albert Einstein, Apple II, back-to-the-land, banking crisis, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Burning Man, California gold rush, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, David Brooks, David Sedaris, Day of the Dead, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, G4S, game design, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, Joan Didion, Larry Ellison, Loma Prieta earthquake, machine readable, Mason jar, messenger bag, New Urbanism, off-the-grid, retail therapy, San Francisco homelessness, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, stealth mode startup, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Stewart Brand, transcontinental railway, urban sprawl, Whole Earth Catalog, Zipcar

Check out our biking tour ( Click here ), which takes you from the waterfront over Golden Gate Bridge. Many SF streets have bicycle lanes, and major parks have bike paths. The best and safest places to cycle in SF are Golden Gate Park, the Embarcadero and the wooded Presidio. The classic Sunday ride runs through Golden Gate Park, along John F Kennedy Dr (car-free on Sundays) to Ocean Beach (best when it’s not too windy). City biking maps San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (www.sfbike.org) produces San Francisco Biking/Walking Guide, which shows how to avoid traffic and hills – find it at local bike shops, Rainbow Grocery (Click here ) or at the Bicycle Coalition’s website as a PDF.

Marin County Golden Gate Transit Ferries ( 415-455-2000; www.goldengateferry.org; 6am-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm Sat & Sun) runs regular ferry services from the Ferry Building to Larkspur and Sausalito (one-way adult/child $9.25/4.50). Transfers are available to Muni bus services, and bicycles are permitted. Blue & Gold Fleet Ferries also provides service to Tiburon or Sausalito (one-way $10.50). Napa Valley Get to Napa car-free via Vallejo Ferry ( 877-643-3779; www.baylinkferry.com; adult/child $13/6.50) with departures from Ferry Building docks about every hour from 6:30am to 7pm weekdays and every two hours from 11am to 7:30pm on weekends; bikes are permitted. From the Vallejo Ferry Terminal, take Napa Valley Vine bus 10 to downtown Napa, Yountville, St Helena or Calistoga.


San Francisco by Lonely Planet

airport security, Albert Einstein, Apple II, back-to-the-land, banking crisis, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Burning Man, California gold rush, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, David Brooks, David Sedaris, Day of the Dead, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, G4S, game design, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, Joan Didion, Larry Ellison, Loma Prieta earthquake, machine readable, Mason jar, messenger bag, New Urbanism, off-the-grid, retail therapy, San Francisco homelessness, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, stealth mode startup, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Stewart Brand, transcontinental railway, urban sprawl, Whole Earth Catalog, Zipcar

Check out our biking tour ( Click here ), which takes you from the waterfront over Golden Gate Bridge. Many SF streets have bicycle lanes, and major parks have bike paths. The best and safest places to cycle in SF are Golden Gate Park, the Embarcadero and the wooded Presidio. The classic Sunday ride runs through Golden Gate Park, along John F Kennedy Dr (car-free on Sundays) to Ocean Beach (best when it’s not too windy). City biking maps San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (www.sfbike.org) produces San Francisco Biking/Walking Guide, which shows how to avoid traffic and hills – find it at local bike shops, Rainbow Grocery (Click here ) or at the Bicycle Coalition’s website as a PDF.

Marin County Golden Gate Transit Ferries ( 415-455-2000; www.goldengateferry.org; 6am-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm Sat & Sun) runs regular ferry services from the Ferry Building to Larkspur and Sausalito (one-way adult/child $9.25/4.50). Transfers are available to Muni bus services, and bicycles are permitted. Blue & Gold Fleet Ferries also provides service to Tiburon or Sausalito (one-way $10.50). Napa Valley Get to Napa car-free via Vallejo Ferry ( 877-643-3779; www.baylinkferry.com; adult/child $13/6.50) with departures from Ferry Building docks about every hour from 6:30am to 7pm weekdays and every two hours from 11am to 7:30pm on weekends; bikes are permitted. From the Vallejo Ferry Terminal, take Napa Valley Vine bus 10 to downtown Napa, Yountville, St Helena or Calistoga.


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Fodor's Oregon by Fodor's Travel Guides

Airbnb, bike sharing, BIPOC, car-free, Kickstarter, Lyft, Mason jar, messenger bag, off grid, off-the-grid, QR code, ride hailing / ride sharing, Rosa Parks, tech bro, tech worker, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, walkable city, Wall-E, white flight, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration

Forest Park One of the largest woodland city parks in the country, Forest Park stretches 8 miles along the hills overlooking the Willamette River west of Downtown. It’s filled with trails through a gorgeous forest canopy and it accesses a couple of noteworthy attractions. s Sights HForest Park CITY PARK | One of the nation’s largest urban wildernesses (5,200 acres), this city-owned, car-free park supports more than 50 species of birds and mammals and more than 80 miles of trails through forests of Douglas fir, hemlock, and cedar. Running the length of the park is the 30-mile Wildwood Trail, which extends into adjoining Washington Park (and is a handy point for accessing Forest Park), starting at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Hoyt Arboretum.

HTilikum Crossing Bridge BRIDGE | Downtown Portland’s collection of striking bridges gained a new member in 2015 with the opening of this sleek, cable-stayed bridge a few steps from Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI). Nicknamed “the Bridge of the People,” the Tilikum is unusual in that it’s the largest car-free bridge in the country—it’s open only to public transit (MAX trains, buses, and streetcars), bikes, and pedestrians. The 1,720-foot-long bridge connects Southeast Portland with the South Waterfront district and rewards those who stroll or cycle across it with impressive skyline views. E Tilikum Crossing, Southeast j Eastbank Esplanade just south of OMSI on the East Side, and S.W.


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Frommer's Memorable Walks in San Francisco by Erika Lenkert

Albert Einstein, Bay Area Rapid Transit, car-free, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Day of the Dead, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, high-speed rail, retail therapy, South of Market, San Francisco, three-masted sailing ship

Among many other performers, one who stood out was Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and the poet who read at the inauguration of President Clinton; she sang here during the 1950s. Turn right on Pacific Avenue, and just after you cross Montgomery Street, you’ll be at brick-lined Osgood Place on the left, which now is registered as a Historic Landmark and, as a result, is one of the few quiet—and car-free— alleyways left in the city. Stroll up Osgood and go left on Broadway to: 8. 1010 Montgomery St. (at the corner of Montgomery and Broadway). This is where Allen Ginsberg lived during the time he wrote his legendary poem Howl. Ginsberg first performed Howl on October 13, 1955, at the corner of Fillmore and Union streets (in a different part of town) at the Six Gallery—a converted auto-repair shop fitted with a small stage and chairs in a half-circle for a reading 44 • Memorable Walks in San Francisco by six poets.


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Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons by Peter Barnes

Albert Einstein, car-free, carbon tax, clean water, collective bargaining, corporate governance, corporate personhood, corporate raider, corporate social responsibility, cotton gin, dark matter, digital divide, diversified portfolio, do well by doing good, Easter island, en.wikipedia.org, Garrett Hardin, gentrification, hypertext link, Isaac Newton, James Watt: steam engine, jitney, junk bonds, Michael Milken, military-industrial complex, money market fund, new economy, patent troll, precautionary principle, profit maximization, Ronald Coase, telemarketer, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Tragedy of the Commons, transaction costs, War on Poverty, Yogi Berra

Building the Commons Sector | 137 Figure 9.1 • American Permanent Fund • Children’s start-up trust • Universal health insurance • Copyright royalty fund • Spectrum trust • Commons tax credit… on m Co m ra l ltu Cu • Land trusts • Municipal wi-fi • Community gardens • Farmers’ markets • Public spaces • Car-free zones • Time banks… s • Regional watershed trusts • Regional airshed trusts • Mississippi basin trust • Buffalo comons… en Local Regional National Op M an ag ed Gl o ba lC om m on s THE NEW COMMONS SECTOR SURFACE WATER TRUSTS The Oregon Water Trust, founded in 1993, acquires surface water rights to protect salmon and other fish.


Cuba Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

Bartolomé de las Casas, battle of ideas, business climate, car-free, carbon footprint, company town, cuban missile crisis, G4S, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, Hernando de Soto, Kickstarter, Monroe Doctrine, new economy, off-the-grid, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, transatlantic slave trade, transcontinental railway, transfer pricing, urban planning

Museo de Transporte Automotor MUSEUM OFFLINE MAP GOOGLE MAP (Oficios No 13; admission CUC$1.50; 9am-5pm Tue-Sun, 9am-1pm Sun) Few miss the irony of this vaguely surreal museum stuffed with ancient Thunderbirds, Pontiacs and Ford Model Ts, most of which appear to be in better shape than the dinosaurs that ply the streets outside. Calle Mercaderes STREET Cobbled, car-free Calle Mercaderes (Merchant’s Street) has been extensively restored by the City Historian’s Office and is an almost complete replica of its splendid 18th-century high-water mark. Interspersed with the museums, shops and restaurants are some real-life working social projects, such as a maternity home and a needlecraft cooperative.

Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau CULTURAL BUILDING OFFLINE MAP GOOGLE MAP (www.centropablo.cult.cu; Muralla No 63; 9am-5:30pm Tue-Sat) Tucked away behind Plaza Vieja, the ‘Brau’ is a leading cultural institution that was formed under the auspices of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (Uneac; Union of Cuban Writers and Artists) in 1996. The center hosts expositions, poetry readings and live acoustic music. Its Salón de Arte Digital is renowned for its groundbreaking digital art. Top of Chapter 1 Habana Vieja: Calle Obispo Around Calle Obispo STREET Narrow, car-free Calle Obispo (Bishop’s Street), Habana Vieja’s main interconnecting artery, is packed with art galleries, shops, music bars and people. Four- and five-story buildings block out most of the sunlight, and the swaying throng of people seems to move in time to the all-pervading live music. Museo de Numismático MUSEUM OFFLINE MAP GOOGLE MAP (Obispo, btwn Aguiar Habana; admission CUC$1.50; 9am-5pm Tue-Sat, 9:30am-12:45pm Sun) This numismatist’s heaven brings together various collections of medals, coins and banknotes from around the world, including a stash of 1000 mainly American gold coins (1869–1928) and a full chronology of Cuban banknotes from the 19th century to the present.

Entertainment Uneac CULTURAL CENTER OFFLINE MAP GOOGLE MAP (Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba; National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists; Manduley, btwn Luz Caballero Martí) If you only visit one Uneac in Cuba – there are 14 in total, at least one per province – make it this one. Situated in a lovingly restored house on car-free Calle Manduley, this friendly establishment offers literary evenings with famous authors, music nights, patio theater (including Lorca) and cultural reviews. There’s an intermittent bar on a gorgeous central patio, and regular art exhibitions: invariably the city’s best. Teatro Comandante Eddy Suñol THEATER OFFLINE MAP GOOGLE MAP (Martí No 111) Holguín’s premier theater is an art deco treat from 1939 on Parque Calixto García.


Rough Guide DIRECTIONS Venice by Jonathan Buckley

car-free, mass immigration, Murano, Venice glass, place-making, Suez canal 1869

P.97 SAN POLO AND SANTA CROCE Campo Santa Maria Mater Domini With its parish church, crumbling old houses, workaday bars and artisan’s workshop, Campo Santa Maria Mater Domini is like a snapshot of an earlier age. P.94 SAN POLO AND SANTA CROCE Northern Cannaregio On any day of the year, residents far outnumber tourists on the long canalside pavements of northern Cannaregio. P.111 CANNAREGIO 9/29/06 2:26:48 PM Venetian oddities 40 Maze-like, car-free The Ospedaletto and dilapidatedly From the grotesque decoration of its facade you might never guess that the Ospedaletto is actually a church. durable, Venice in its entirety is a P.121 CENTRAL CASTELLO very strange place, and no matter how many times you return to the city it will never lose its aura of extreme peculiarity.


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Retire Before Mom and Dad by Rob Berger

Airbnb, Albert Einstein, Apollo 13, asset allocation, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, buy and hold, car-free, cuban missile crisis, discovery of DNA, diversification, diversified portfolio, en.wikipedia.org, fixed income, hedonic treadmill, index fund, John Bogle, junk bonds, mortgage debt, Mr. Money Mustache, passive investing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, robo advisor, The 4% rule, the rule of 72, transaction costs, Vanguard fund, William Bengen, Yogi Berra, Zipcar

It changed their shopping habits, particularly where they shopped (now closer to home), and it saved them a truckload (pun intended) of money. As Ben explained, “Even with the Uber, taxi, and Zipcar bills, we saved money compared to owning a car. No more car insurance bills, parking lot charges, or campus parking fees. We were surprised at how much we had to learn in order to go car-free: Alternate services, iPhone apps, Uber rules…. But we’re proud of our accomplishment, and talking about it generates spirited conversations about other environmentally friendly solutions. We know that our location in Bethesda helps a lot, but we encourage others to find bold solutions that work for them.”27 * * * 25 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jrose/2018/10/02/the-one-monthly-payment-killing-your-wealth/#27a3b6b043c1 26 https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/total-cost-owning-car/ 27 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/learning-to-love-life-without-a-car/2016/01/29/7ec1e34c-ba3e-11e5-b682-4bb4dd403c7d_story.html 3 Key Concepts Cars are expensive.


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Lonely Planet Wales (Travel Guide) by Lonely Planet

active transport: walking or cycling, back-to-the-land, Brexit referendum, car-free, carbon footprint, country house hotel, Downton Abbey, gentrification, global village, haute cuisine, Kickstarter, land reform, off-the-grid, offshore financial centre, period drama, sensible shoes, trade route, urban renewal

Turn right and head towards the beautiful sandstone iYr Hen Lyfrgell, which houses the Cardiff Story museum. Continue down the street and into the heart of the Hayes. The name is derived from a Norman-French word relating to the small garden enclosures that would have once stood here. It's now Cardiff's main shopping strip, and deliciously car-free. jSt David's mall occupies the entire left-hand flank, but duck into the Victorian-era kMorgan Quarter on your right. Finish back on the Hayes under the giant hoop and arrow of the sculpture lAlliance. zFestivals & Events Six NationsSPORTS (www.rbs6nations.com; hFeb & Mar) The premier European rugby championship, with Wales taking on England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy and France.

Monmouth 1Sights 1Castle & Regimental MuseumB1 2Monmouth CastleB1 3Monnow BridgeA3 4Nelson Museum & Local History CentreB1 5Shire HallB1 6St Mary's Catholic ChurchC1 7St Thomas the Martyr's ChurchA3 2Activities, Courses & Tours 8Monmouth Canoe & Activity CentreD1 4Sleeping 9Monnow Bridge Caravan & Camping SiteA2 5Eating 10Bistro PregoC1 11Misbah TandooriC1 1Sights & Activities St Thomas the Martyr's ChurchCHURCH ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; www.monmouthparishes.org.uk; St Thomas' Sq; hhours vary) Positioned by the Monnow Bridge, sweet little St Thomas still retains some original features from its founding in around 1180. Inside there's a distinctive Norman Romanesque arch, and pews and a gallery fashioned out of dark wood. Monnow BridgeBRIDGE ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ) Monmouth's main drag, such that it is, starts at car-free Monnow Bridge, the UK's only complete example of a medieval fortified bridge. It was built in 1272 to protect the English town from the Welsh, but it was later used to extract tolls from people entering the town. Much of what you see now dates from a 1705 restoration. Monnow Bridge, the UK’s only complete medieval fortified bridge, in Monmouth | MIKE CHARLES / SHUTTERSTOCK © Monmouth CastleCASTLE ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; www.monmouthcastlemuseum.org.uk; Castle Hill) All that remains of Monmouth Castle is a scant section of wall that once enclosed the great hall and the adjoining tower.


Croatia by Anja Mutic, Vesna Maric

call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, friendly fire, G4S, haute cuisine, low cost airline, off-the-grid, starchitect

Pansion Saturn B&B €€ ( 236 102; www.val-losinj.hr; Obala Maršala Tita 1; s/d 289/678KN) This is a cheap and cheerful little B&B overlooking the central bay, with a slightly old-school feel. The rooms are spacious and bathrooms modern, and there is a terrace bar with lovely views of the bay and the pastel houses. ISLANDS AROUND LOŠINJ The nearby car-free islands of Susak, Ilovik and Unije are the most popular day trips from Mali Lošinj. Tiny Susak (population 183, area 3.8 sq km) is unique for the thick layer of fine sand that blankets the underlying limestone and creates delightful beaches. It’s the island’s unusual culture that makes it particularly interesting.

However, as these leave around 10am and return before 6pm, you don’t get much more than a quick glimpse at each island. Koločep is the nearest of the islands and is inhabited by a mere 150 people. There are several sand-and-pebble beaches, steep cliffs and sea caves, as well as centuries-old pine forests, olive groves and orchards filled with orange and lemon trees. Car-free Lopud has a number of interesting churches and monasteries dating from the 16th century, when the inhabitants’ seafaring exploits were legendary. Lopud village is composed of stone houses surrounded by exotic gardens. You can walk across the spine of the island to beautiful and sandy Šunj beach ; here a little bar serves griddled sardines and other types of fish.


Lonely Planet Sri Lanka by Lonely Planet

British Empire, car-free, carbon footprint, clean water, colonial rule, digital map, European colonialism, land tenure, Mahatma Gandhi, megaproject, off grid, off-the-grid, period drama, place-making, ride hailing / ride sharing, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), self-driving car, special economic zone, spice trade, trade route, urban sprawl

APigeon Island National Park Off beautiful Nilaveli beach, this island has great snorkeling that kids love. ATurtle hatcheries On the west coast, these are popular. AUnawatuna Fringing reefs mean the beach here is safe and shallow for little ones. APolonnaruwa Kids can run themselves silly at the vast and car-free ancient heritage sites such as this one, with its very cool ruins. AThree-wheelers Buzzing, blowing and completely unlike a ride anyplace else, these ubiquitous transport options are good for a thrill. AHill Country Train Rides Kids will love hanging out the doors of chugging trains (and giving their parents heart attacks!).

You can buy the Anuradhapura ticket at the Jetavanarama Museum ( GOOGLE MAP ; h7.30am-6.30pm), the Archaeological Museum ( GOOGLE MAP ; h7.30am-6.30pm), at a ticket office ( GOOGLE MAP ; h7.30am-6.30pm) just east of the Citadel and sometimes at a ticket booth ( GOOGLE MAP ) near the Abhayagiri site. The scale of the ruins is huge. You can appreciate individual areas on foot, but a bicycle is an ideal way to get around the car-free trails and red-earthed walkways that link the main sites. Anuradhapura has four main zones. The Mahavihara was the spiritual centre of Anuradhapura, home to Sri Maha Bodhi – the sacred bodhi tree. Nearby are the Citadel, a compact collection of structures about 1000 years old, and Jetavanarama, with a huge dagoba and important museum.


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Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It by M. Nolan Gray

Albert Einstein, barriers to entry, Black Lives Matter, car-free, carbon footprint, City Beautiful movement, clean water, confounding variable, COVID-19, desegregation, Donald Shoup, Edward Glaeser, Elisha Otis, game design, garden city movement, gentrification, George Floyd, global pandemic, Home mortgage interest deduction, housing crisis, industrial cluster, Jane Jacobs, job-hopping, land bank, lone genius, mass immigration, McMansion, mortgage tax deduction, Overton Window, parking minimums, restrictive zoning, rewilding, San Francisco homelessness, scientific management, Silicon Valley, SimCity, starchitect, streetcar suburb, superstar cities, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, transit-oriented development, Tyler Cowen, Tyler Cowen: Great Stagnation, urban planning, urban renewal, War on Poverty

As urban planner Jonathan Levine observes, demand to locate in and adjacent to transit is quite high among many Americans, as reflected by high land prices in those areas.19 Economists Emily Hamilton and Eli Dourado pick up on similar land value premiums in walkable areas.20 Yet zoning often ignores this demand, capping densities in precisely the places where many aspirational car-free commuters might like to live.21 If people want to live in a way that dramatically reduces the impact of their commute on the environment—and developers are eager to build this housing for them—why would we stop this? Beyond suppressing density, the other half of zoning—use zoning—might play an even greater role in lengthening vehicle trips and undermining the ability to walk, bicycle, or take transit.


Amazing Train Journeys by Lonely Planet

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, British Empire, car-free, colonial rule, country house hotel, Donner party, high-speed rail, megacity, Shenzhen was a fishing village, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, trade route, urban sprawl

Don’t bring pen knives or similar, as there is airport-style security at the ferry terminals. CB Matanzas boasts music, art, history, handmade books, and a preserved 19th-century French pharmacy. Matanzas © ATTILA JANDI | SHUTTERSTOCK New England’s Amtrak Downeaster USA As car-free city breaks go, this train escape is hard to beat, chugging from the downtown main streets of urban Boston to Maine’s rural greens in under four hours. That’s from the seventh most densely populated city in the US to the state with the highest percentage of forest coverage, all in less time than it takes to cook an old-style Yankee plum pudding.


Frommer's California 2009 by Matthew Poole, Harry Basch, Mark Hiss, Erika Lenkert

airport security, Asilomar, Bay Area Rapid Transit, California gold rush, call centre, car-free, Charles Lindbergh, clean water, Columbine, Donald Trump, Donner party, East Village, El Camino Real, European colonialism, Frank Gehry, gentleman farmer, gentrification, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, high-speed rail, housing crisis, indoor plumbing, Joan Didion, machine readable, Mason jar, mass immigration, Maui Hawaii, post-work, retail therapy, rolling blackouts, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, Skype, South of Market, San Francisco, sustainable-tourism, transcontinental railway, urban sprawl, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration, Y Combinator

Contact them for the latest on dog-r elated issues, including information on off-leash parks around town. 8 S U S TA I N A B L E TO U R I S M / E COTO U R I S M California offers numer ous way to be an ecofriendly visitor. The biggest fav or y ou can do for the envir onment is keeping your driving to a minimum, and in California there are numerous car-free adventures to choose fr om. H ere ar e a fe w examples: • Instead of driving though the Wine Country, consider a self-guided but fully supported 3-day biking tour with Wine Countr y B ikes (& 866/9224537; www.winecountrybikes.com). • From San Francisco, you can take a bus to Yosemite N ational P ark (p . 312) and join one of the numer ous hiking, biking, and horseback riding trips that explore Yosemite Valley. • Tour the state via Amtrak (www . amtrakcalifornia.com).

From exploring caverns to riding in the stagecoach and panning for gold, the neighboring towns of Angels Camp, Murphys, Columbia, Sonora, and J amestown offer a cornucopia of G old Rush–related sites, museums, and activities. It’s a great place to bring the family (kids lo ve roaming around the dusty car-free streets of Columbia), and the region offers some of the best lodgings and restaurants in the G old Country. In short, if you’re the Type A sor t who needs to stay activ e, the southern G old Country is for y ou. For information about lodging, dining, ev ents, and the ar ts and enter tainment in the ar ea, contact the Tuolumne County Visitors Bureau, 542 W.

In room: A/C, TV w/ pay movies, high-speed Internet, minibar, coffeemaker, hair dryer, safe, CD player, video games. Inexpensive Best Western Holly wood Hills Hotel Location is a big selling point for this family-owned (since 1948) member of the r eliable Best Western chain: It’s just off U.S. 101 (the H ollywood Fwy.); a M etro Line stop just 3 blocks away means easy , car-free access to U niversal Studios; and the famed H ollywood and Vine intersection is just a 5-minute walk away . The entir e hotel has been r ecently r enovated in a contemporar y style, and all the spiffy guest r ooms come with a r efrigerator, coffeemaker, microwave, and wireless Internet. The rooms in the back building ar e my fav orites, as they sit w ell back from busy Franklin Avenue, face the gleaming blue-tiled, heated outdoor pool, and have an attractive view of the neighboring hillside.


Greece by Korina Miller

car-free, carbon footprint, credit crunch, flag carrier, Google Earth, haute cuisine, illegal immigration, informal economy, invention of the printing press, pension reform, period drama, restrictive zoning, sensible shoes, Suez canal 1869, too big to fail, trade route, upwardly mobile, urban renewal, urban sprawl, women in the workforce

Over a decade of radical urban renewal Athens has reinvented itself. Post-Olympics Athens is conspicuously wealthier, more sophisticated and cosmopolitan. The shift is evident in the stylish new restaurants, shops and hip hotels, and in the emerging artsy-industrial neighbourhoods and entertainment precincts. The car-free historic centre is an open-air museum, yet the city’s cultural and social life takes place around these ancient monuments, reconciling past and present. Beyond its fascinating ancient ruins and museums, Athens has a rich cultural calendar of festivals and a burgeoning contemporary arts scene. Its seasonal social life gives it an exciting energy.

Its paved, narrow streets nestle into the northeastern slope of the Acropolis and pass by many of the city’s ancient sites. Plaka is touristy in the extreme, but it is still the most atmospheric part of Athens. The main streets, Kydathineon and Adrianou, are packed solid with restaurants and souvenir shops, but elsewhere you can find a peaceful oasis in virtually car-free streets with restored neoclassical mansions. The quaint labyrinthine Anafiotika quarter above Plaka is a narrow maze of whitewashed, island-style houses built by stonemasons from the island of Anafi, brought in to build the king’s palace. MONASTIRAKI ΜΟΝΑΣΤΗΡΑΚΙ Centred on busy Plateia Monastirakiou (Monastiraki Sq), the area just west of Syntagma is the city’s grungier but nonetheless atmospheric market district.

This region of rolling hills, criss-crossed with elaborate stone walls running throughout olive and mastic groves, is highly atmospheric. Ottoman rulers’ penchant for mastic made the Mastihohoria wealthy for centuries. Some architectural wonders remain in the villages of Pyrgi and Mesta. The former features houses decorated in unusual colourful patterns, while the latter is a car-free, walled fortress settlement built by the Genoese in the 14th century. Other unique southern Chios attractions include Byzantine churches, the striking Cave of Sykia with its stalactites and stalagmites, and beaches. The port of Limenas Mesta, which offers seafood tavernas, is also a convenient jumping-off point for ferries to Psara (for ferry information, Click here).


Sweden by Becky Ohlsen

accounting loophole / creative accounting, car-free, centre right, clean water, financial independence, glass ceiling, haute couture, Kickstarter, low cost airline, mass immigration, New Urbanism, period drama, place-making, post-work, retail therapy, starchitect, the built environment, white picket fence

Taxi One of the larger companies is Taxi Göteborg (65 00 00). Taxis can be picked up outside Centralstationen, at Kungsportsplatsen and on Kungsportsavenyn. Women travelling alone at night can expect a fare discount. Return to beginning of chapter AROUND GÖTEBORG SOUTHERN ARCHIPELAGO 031 / pop 4300 A car-free paradise, the southern archipelago is a short hop from Göteborg’s hustle. Despite the summer crowds, you’ll always find a quiet bathing spot or serene pocket of green. There are nine major islands and numerous smaller ones. The largest island, Styrsö, is less than 3km long. Military restrictions saw most of the area closed to foreigners until 1997; it’s now a residential hot spot for cashed-up commuters.

A row of slick cubic buildings will house 22 contemporary rooms (and a suite), each featuring the hues of its namesake herb or spice. ÅSTOL & RÖNNÄNG Nearby Åstol looks straight out of a curious dream – think a tiny, barren chunk of rock dotted with rows of gleaming white houses that seem perched on top of each other from the sea. There’s not much to do, but it’s utterly loveable. Amble round the car-free streets, soak up the views of the other islands, and feast on fish at Åstols Rökeri (67 72 60; noon-midnight mid-Jun–mid-Aug), a fish smokery with summer restaurant attached. You can reach Åstol by ferry from Rönnäng (Skr30, roughly hourly between 5.30am and 11.30pm). Rönnängs Vandrarhem (67 71 98; Nyponvägen 5; dm from Skr250; ), an SVIF hostel in Rönnäng, about 1km from the ferry, is good and spacious, with one sizeable kitchen and a rambling, country home feel.


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Moon Oregon Trail Road Trip: Historic Sites, Small Towns, and Scenic Landscapes Along the Legendary Westward Route by Katrina Emery, Moon Travel Guides

Airbnb, bike sharing, California gold rush, car-free, crowdsourcing, desegregation, Donner party, glass ceiling, indoor plumbing, Kickstarter, Lyft, Mason jar, mass immigration, pez dispenser, ride hailing / ride sharing, Rosa Parks, trade route, transcontinental railway, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, urban planning, Works Progress Administration

The Eagle Creek Fire raged through here in 2017, burning 48,000 acres of and forcing many portions of the historic highway to close, but they are open once again. Even so, watch for burned sections, which are more prone to rockslides. Across the Columbia River, Washington’s Highway 14 offers a smaller, slower route, with scenic finds of its own. Consider exploring the region car-free via Columbia Gorge Express, which runs buses five times daily to and from Portland, Troutdale, Multnomah Falls, Cascade Locks, Hood River, and The Dalles. If you have time to make a base in The Dalles or Hood River, the service provides an easy way to explore the area on day trips. The bus drops off in the downtown center of each city—except for Portland, where it goes to Gateway Transit Center on the east side of town, from where you can jump on the MAX Light Rail to get downtown.

After 5.5 miles (8.9 km), take exit 69 for Mosier, turn right on U.S. 30, and then make a quick left onto Rock Creek Road. You’ll arrive in 0.7 mile (1.1 km). The drive from Hood River takes just over 10 minutes. Biking Beautiful bicycling options abound in every direction in Hood River. Hop on the Fruit Loop or bike the car-free section of the Historic Columbia River Highway to Mosier. Head to Discover Bicycles (201 State St., 541/386-4820, www.discoverbicycles.com, 10am-6pm Mon.-Fri., 10am-5pm Sat.-Sun.) for cruisers ($40 per day) and road bikes ($60 per day), or Hood River Bicycles (208 4th St., 541/387-3276, http://hoodriverbicycles.com, 9am-5pm Wed.


Lonely Planet Greek Islands by Lonely Planet, Alexis Averbuck, Michael S Clark, Des Hannigan, Victoria Kyriakopoulos, Korina Miller

car-free, carbon footprint, credit crunch, Easter island, eurozone crisis, G4S, haute couture, haute cuisine, low cost airline, Norman Mailer, pension reform, period drama, restrictive zoning, sensible shoes, sustainable-tourism, trade route, transfer pricing, urban sprawl

Approachable Aegina is home to a spectacular Doric temple and ruined Byzantine village, while nearby pine-clad Angistri feels protected and peaceful outside of the booming midsummer months. Further south, Poros with its forested hinterland, curves only a few hundred metres from the Peloponnese. The Saronic showpiece, Hydra, is a gorgeous car-free island with a port of carefully preserved stone houses rising from a chic history-charged harbour. Deepest south of all, pine-scented Spetses also has a vibrant nautical history and pretty town architecture plus myriad aqua coves, only minutes from the Peloponnese. When to Go May The islands awaken after winter; come for flower-filled Easter.

This region of rolling hills, criss-crossed with elaborate stone walls running through olive and mastic groves, is highly atmospheric. The Ottoman rulers’ penchant for mastic made the Mastihohoria wealthy for centuries. Some architectural wonders remain in the villages of Pyrgi and Mesta. The former features houses decorated in unusual colourful patterns, while the latter is a car-free, walled fortress settlement built by the Genoese in the 14th century. Other southern Chios attractions include Byzantine churches, the striking Cave of Sykia with its stalactites and stalagmites, and beaches. The port of Limenas Meston, which offers seafood tavernas, is also a convenient jumping-off point for ferries to Psara and Lavrio on the mainland.

Mesta is an ingenious example of medieval defensive architecture, featuring a double set of walls, four gates and a pentagonal structure. Since the rooftops are interconnected, with the right guide you can actually walk across the entire town. In medieval times, mastic was a hot commodity, prized for its medicinal powers, meaning Mesta had to be especially well fortified. As a car-free village, it’s a relaxing, romantic place where children can run around safely. Mesta also makes a good base for hill walking, exploring hidden southern beaches and caves, and participating in cultural and ecotourism activities. Village life converges on the central square with its small cafes and restaurants, nearby the enormous Church of the Taxiarhes.


Northern California Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

Airbnb, Apple II, Asilomar, back-to-the-land, Bay Area Rapid Transit, big-box store, bike sharing, Burning Man, buy and hold, California gold rush, California high-speed rail, call centre, car-free, carbon credits, carbon footprint, clean water, company town, dark matter, Day of the Dead, Donald Trump, Donner party, East Village, El Camino Real, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Frank Gehry, friendly fire, gentrification, gigafactory, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Google bus, Haight Ashbury, haute couture, haute cuisine, high-speed rail, housing crisis, Joan Didion, Kickstarter, Loma Prieta earthquake, Lyft, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Zuckerberg, Mason jar, McMansion, means of production, Northpointe / Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions, off-the-grid, Peoples Temple, Port of Oakland, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, San Francisco homelessness, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, South of Market, San Francisco, stealth mode startup, stem cell, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Stewart Brand, the built environment, trade route, transcontinental railway, uber lyft, Upton Sinclair, urban sprawl, white picket fence, Whole Earth Catalog, women in the workforce, working poor, Works Progress Administration, young professional

Marin County Golden Gate Transit Ferries ( GOOGLE MAP ; %415-455-2000; www.goldengateferry.org; h6am-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm Sat & Sun) runs regular ferry services from the Ferry Building to Larkspur and Sausalito (one way $11.75). Transfers are available to Muni bus services and bicycles are permitted. Blue & Gold Fleet Ferries also operate to Tiburon or Sausalito (one way $11.50) from Pier 41. Napa Valley Get to Napa car free (weekdays only) via the Vallejo Ferry ( GOOGLE MAP ; %707-643-3779, 877-643-3779; http://sanfranciscobayferry.com), with departures from the Ferry Building docks about every hour from 6:30am to 7pm weekdays and roughly every 90 minutes from 10am to 9pm on weekends; bikes are permitted. However, the connecting bus from the Vallejo Ferry Terminal – Napa Valley Vine bus 29 to downtown Napa, Yountville, St Helena or Calistoga – operates only on weekdays.

Designed by Frederick Law Olmstead (the landscape architect of New York City’s Central Park), it’s great for walking and the views are stupendous. Oakland Hills The large parks of the Oakland Hills are ideal for day hiking and challenging cycling, and the East Bay Regional Parks (%888-327-2757; www.ebparks.org; per car free-$6; hhours vary; c#) manages more than 1200 miles of trails in 65 regional parks, preserves and recreation areas in the Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Off Hwy 24, Robert Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve is the northernmost of the Oakland Hills parks. It has great views of the Bay Area from its Round Top Peak (1761ft).

Sunshine Freestyle Surf & SportSURFING ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %831-375-5015; www.facebook.com/SunshineFreestyle; 443 Lighthouse Ave; surfboard/wetsuit/body board rental from $20/10/7; h10am-6pm Mon-Sat, 11am-5pm Sun) Monterey’s oldest surf shop rents and sells all the surfing gear you’ll need. Cycling & Mountain Biking Along an old railway line, the Monterey Peninsula Recreational Trail travels for 18 car-free miles along the waterfront, passing Cannery Row en route to Lovers Point in Pacific Grove. Road-cycling enthusiasts can make the round trip to Carmel along the 17-Mile Drive. Mountain-bikers head to Fort Ord National Monument to pedal over 80 miles of single-track and fire roads; the Sea Otter Classic (www.seaotterclassic.com) races there in mid-April.


France (Lonely Planet, 8th Edition) by Nicola Williams

active transport: walking or cycling, back-to-the-land, bike sharing, British Empire, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, Charles Lindbergh, Columbine, company town, double helix, flag carrier, gentrification, Guggenheim Bilbao, haute couture, haute cuisine, Henri Poincaré, Herbert Marcuse, high-speed rail, Honoré de Balzac, illegal immigration, industrial robot, information trail, Jacquard loom, Joseph-Marie Jacquard, Kickstarter, Louis Blériot, Louis Pasteur, low cost airline, Mahatma Gandhi, means of production, Murano, Venice glass, pension reform, post-work, QWERTY keyboard, ride hailing / ride sharing, Saturday Night Live, Silicon Valley, Skype, Sloane Ranger, Suez canal 1869, supervolcano, three-masted sailing ship, trade route, urban renewal, urban sprawl, V2 rocket

For the vehicle-mad, there’s Douarnenez’ seafaring Musée du Bateau, Clermont-Ferrand’s Vulcania, car museums in Lyon, Monaco (razz around the F1 Grand Prix track in a Ferrari;) and Mulhouse, which also sports the Cité du Train. Your kid wants to be an astronaut? Build and launch a shuttle at Toulouse’s interactive Cité de l’Espace. The coastlines drum up bags of old-fashioned fun: Cruise Porto’s crystalline caves on Corsica, meet sharks in Monaco’s Musée Océanographique, pedal (or be pedalled) and snorkel on car-free Île de Porquerolles, party at the Nice Carnival, see how oysters grow at an oyster farm in Brittany and ride a mechanical elephant Jules Verne–style on Île de Nantes. Return to beginning of chapter TREASURE TROVE France flaunts 32 World Heritage Sites (http://whc.unesco.org), including the banks of the Seine in Paris and royal palaces at Versailles, Fontainebleau and Chambord.

Montmartre & Pigalle All the streets in Montmartre, 18e, encircled by rue Caulaincourt, rue de Clignancourt, bd de Rochechouart and bd de Clichy (from 11am to 7pm April to August, from 11am to 6pm September to March), as well as rue des Martyrs, 9e (from 10am to 1pm Sundays). Canal St-Martin, 10e The area around quai de Valmy and quai de Jemmapes, 10e (from 10am to 6pm Sundays in winter, to 8pm in summer); in July and August yet more streets running south from quai de Jemmapes become car-free. Bois de Boulogne (from 9am to 6pm Saturdays and Sundays) and Bois de Vincennes (from 9am to 6pm Sundays). Jardin du Luxembourg, 6e Immediate surrounding streets, including parts of rue Auguste Compte, rue d’Assas, bd St-Michel and rue des Chartreux (from 10am to 6pm Sundays March to November)

Auberge de Jeunesse Moulin de Méen ( 02 96 39 10 83; dinan@fuaj.org; Vallée de la Fontaine des Eaux; camping €6, dm incl breakfast €15.70; reception 9am-noon & 5-9pm, closed late Dec–early Feb; ) Dinan’s HI-affiliated youth hostel is in a lovely vine-covered old water mill about 750m north of the port. Hôtel Tour de l’Horloge ( 02 96 39 96 92; hiliotel@wanadoo.fr; 5 rue de la Chaux; s €42-57, d €47-62) In the centre of the old town, the 12-room Horloge occupies a charming 18th-century house on a cobbled, car-free lane, which contrasts with its brand-new renovations in colourful North African style. Head to the top floor, where rooms have exposed wooden beams and a lofty view of the hotel’s namesake clock tower. Hôtel Les Grandes Tours ( 02 96 85 16 20; www.hotel-dinan-grandes-tours.com; 6 rue du Château; s €48-52, d €51-55; Feb–mid-Dec) In its former life as the Hôtel des Messageries, this hotel was fabled as the place Victor Hugo stayed with his very good friend Juliette Drouet in 1836.


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Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-Like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You ... Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy by William Poundstone

affirmative action, Albert Einstein, big-box store, Buckminster Fuller, car-free, cloud computing, creative destruction, digital rights, en.wikipedia.org, full text search, hiring and firing, How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?, index card, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John von Neumann, lateral thinking, loss aversion, mental accounting, Monty Hall problem, new economy, off-the-grid, Paul Erdős, RAND corporation, random walk, Richard Feynman, rolodex, Rubik’s Cube, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, sorting algorithm, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, The Spirit Level, Tony Hsieh, why are manhole covers round?, William Shockley: the traitorous eight

Since there’s a 95 percent chance of at least one car passing in thirty minutes, there must be a 5 percent chance of no car in that time frame. In order to have a thirty-minute stretch with no cars whatsoever, three things must happen (or rather, not happen). First, ten minutes must pass with no cars. Then, another ten minutes must pass, still without a car. Finally, a third ten minutes must be car-free. The question asks for the chance of a car’s passing during a ten-minute period. Call that chance X. The chance of no car in ten minutes is 1 − X. Multiply that by itself three times, and it should come to 5 percent: (1 − X)3 = 0.05 Take the cube root of both sides: Solve for X: Nobody expects you to do cube roots in your head.


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The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving by Leigh Gallagher

Airbnb, big-box store, bike sharing, Burning Man, call centre, car-free, Celebration, Florida, clean water, collaborative consumption, Columbine, commoditize, crack epidemic, demographic winter, East Village, edge city, Edward Glaeser, extreme commuting, Ford Model T, General Motors Futurama, gentrification, helicopter parent, Home mortgage interest deduction, housing crisis, Jane Jacobs, Kickstarter, Lewis Mumford, low skilled workers, Mark Zuckerberg, McMansion, Menlo Park, microapartment, mortgage tax deduction, negative equity, New Urbanism, peak oil, Peter Calthorpe, Ponzi scheme, Quicken Loans, Richard Florida, Robert Shiller, Sand Hill Road, Seaside, Florida, Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, Stewart Brand, streetcar suburb, TED Talk, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Tony Hsieh, Tragedy of the Commons, transit-oriented development, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban sprawl, Victor Gruen, walkable city, white flight, white picket fence, young professional, Zipcar

It’s so much easier to walk downstairs and walk outside and walk to a restaurant, or grab a bite.” This obsession with “walkable suburban,” it should be noted, does not mean that residents never have to get in their cars again. Only in a very few places in the country is it routine for people to live car-free entirely—New York City being one of them. My neighborhood in Manhattan’s West Village has a Walk Score of 100, making it a “walker’s paradise,” and I would say it fits that bill: in eighteen years of living in various neighborhoods in New York City, I have never owned a car. But my experience is an aberration of the highest order.


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Frommer's Portable San Diego by Mark Hiss

car-free, East Village, Golden Gate Park, Irwin Jacobs: Qualcomm, Maui Hawaii, Norman Mailer

U.S. residents must show proof of international travel within the last 6 months in order to stay. 1 Downtown San Diego’s downtown is an excellent place for leisure travelers to stay. The nightlife and dining in the Gaslamp Quarter and Horton Plaza shopping are close at hand; Balboa Park, Hillcrest, Old Town, and Coronado are less than 10 minutes away by car; and beaches aren’t much farther. It’s also the city’s public-transportation hub and thus very convenient for car-free visitors. Many downtown hotels seem designed for the expense-account or trust-fund crowd, but there are more moderate choices, in terms of price. There’s the colorful, modern Bristol Hotel, 1055 First Ave. (& 800/662-4477 or 619/232-6141; www.bristolhotelsandiego. com), adjacent to the Gaslamp Quarter; and in the budget category, you can’t beat the 260-room 500 West, 500 W.


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Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together by Ian Goldin, Tom Lee-Devlin

15-minute city, 1960s counterculture, agricultural Revolution, Alvin Toffler, Anthropocene, anti-globalists, Berlin Wall, Bonfire of the Vanities, Brixton riot, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, Cass Sunstein, charter city, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, clean water, cloud computing, congestion charging, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, CRISPR, data science, David Brooks, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, decarbonisation, deindustrialization, Deng Xiaoping, desegregation, Edward Glaeser, Edward Jenner, Enrique Peñalosa, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, financial engineering, financial independence, future of work, General Motors Futurama, gentrification, germ theory of disease, global pandemic, global supply chain, global village, Haight Ashbury, Hernando de Soto, high-speed rail, household responsibility system, housing crisis, Howard Rheingold, income per capita, Induced demand, industrial robot, informal economy, invention of the printing press, invention of the wheel, Jane Jacobs, Jeff Bezos, job automation, John Perry Barlow, John Snow's cholera map, Kickstarter, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, labour mobility, Lewis Mumford, lockdown, Louis Pasteur, low interest rates, low skilled workers, manufacturing employment, Marshall McLuhan, mass immigration, megacity, Neal Stephenson, Network effects, New Urbanism, offshore financial centre, open borders, open economy, Pearl River Delta, race to the bottom, Ray Oldenburg, remote working, rent control, Republic of Letters, Richard Florida, ride hailing / ride sharing, rising living standards, Salesforce, Shenzhen special economic zone , smart cities, smart meter, Snow Crash, social distancing, special economic zone, spinning jenny, Steve Jobs, Stewart Brand, superstar cities, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Great Good Place, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, trade liberalization, trade route, Upton Sinclair, uranium enrichment, urban decay, urban planning, urban sprawl, Victor Gruen, white flight, working poor, working-age population, zero-sum game, zoonotic diseases

And the fact that 98 per cent of electricity in Norway comes from renewable sources means that EVs do not simply shift emissions to the power grid.48 Elsewhere, in cities like London, Paris and Barcelona, the transition to EVs is being accelerated by the introduction of fees for driving petrol or diesel vehicles through certain zones. That is a positive first step, but it needs to be combined with greater reliance on renewable energy sources. Another example of what is possible is Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, where investments by the government in public transport and cycle routes have made a car-free city a reality.49 Making buildings more energy-efficient is another major area of opportunity for cities, with the potential to reduce emissions and save money at the same time. Solar panels can be affixed to urban rooftops. Households can be equipped with smart meters to better understand their energy usage.


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Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet? by Pete Dyson, Rory Sutherland

Abraham Maslow, Alan Greenspan, autonomous vehicles, barriers to entry, behavioural economics, bitcoin, Black Swan, Boeing 747, BRICs, butterfly effect, car-free, carbon footprint, Charles Babbage, choice architecture, cognitive bias, cognitive load, coronavirus, COVID-19, Crossrail, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, decarbonisation, demand response, Diane Coyle, digital map, driverless car, Dunning–Kruger effect, Elon Musk, fake news, functional fixedness, gender pay gap, George Akerlof, gig economy, global supply chain, Goodhart's law, Greta Thunberg, Gödel, Escher, Bach, high-speed rail, hive mind, Hyperloop, Induced demand, informal economy, Isaac Newton, Jane Jacobs, lockdown, longitudinal study, loss aversion, low cost airline, Lyft, megaproject, meta-analysis, Network effects, nudge unit, Ocado, overview effect, Paul Samuelson, performance metric, pneumatic tube, RAND corporation, randomized controlled trial, remote working, ride hailing / ride sharing, risk tolerance, Rory Sutherland, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, selection bias, Skype, smart transportation, social distancing, South Sea Bubble, systems thinking, TED Talk, the map is not the territory, The Market for Lemons, the scientific method, The Wisdom of Crowds, Thomas Malthus, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, urban planning, Veblen good, When a measure becomes a target, yield management, zero-sum game

A study of Londoners’ travel behaviour showed that only 4% of drivers reported giving serious thought to which mode of travel they should use for a given journey.11 The psychologist Daniel Kahneman described this phenomenon with the phrase ‘what you see is all there is’. A behaviourally framed solution would make us walk to our cars by shifting residential parking out of sight, away from driveways and streets into separate car parks. Streets then become car free, with exceptions made for pick-up and drop-off zones. This is the exact long-term policy adopted by the district of Vauban in Freiberg, Germany.12 13 The dependability gap A cognitive psychologist might observe that we are suffering from risk aversion. The car is a dependable mode of transport: even if the traffic is heavy, you will almost always get to where you want to go eventually.


Bali & Lombok Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

Airbnb, car-free, carbon footprint, clean water, first-past-the-post, Kickstarter, land reform, Mahatma Gandhi, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, off-the-grid, retail therapy, Skype, spice trade, sustainable-tourism

On the Beach Various restaurants and cafes face the water along Jl Pantai Arjuna, and there are more along Jl Padma Utara. All are good come sunset. MozarellaITALIAN, SEAFOOD ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; www.mozzarella-resto.com; Maharta Bali Hotel, Jl Padma Utara; meals from 90,000Rp) The best of the beachfront restaurants on Legian’s car-free strip, Mozarella serves Italian fare that's more authentic than most. Fresh fish also features; service is rather polished and there are various open-air areas for moonlit dining plus a more sheltered dining room. ZanzibarINTERNATIONAL ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %0361-733529; Jl Arjuna; meals from 50,000Rp; h8am-11pm) This popular patio fronts a busy strip at Double Six Beach.

DON'T MISS SUNSET DRINKS IN KUTA & LEGIAN Bali sunsets regularly explode in stunning displays of reds, oranges and purples. Sipping a cold one while watching this free show to the beat of the surf is the top activity at 6pm. Genial local guys offer plastic chairs on the sand and cheap, cold Bintang (20,000Rp). In Kuta, head to the car-free south end of the beach; in Legian, the best place is the strip of beach that starts north of Jl Padma and runs to the south end of Jl Pantai Arjuna. Legian & Double Six Beach Most of Legian's bars are smaller and appeal to a more sedate crowd than those in Kuta. The very notable exception is the area at the end of Jl Arjuna/Jl Double Six where there are cafes and clubs.


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Suburban Nation by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck

A Pattern Language, American ideology, back-to-the-city movement, big-box store, car-free, Celebration, Florida, City Beautiful movement, congestion pricing, desegregation, edge city, Frank Gehry, gentrification, housing crisis, if you build it, they will come, income inequality, intermodal, Jane Jacobs, jitney, McMansion, megaproject, New Urbanism, operational security, Peter Calthorpe, place-making, price mechanism, profit motive, Ralph Nader, Seaside, Florida, Silicon Valley, skinny streets, streetcar suburb, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Great Good Place, transit-oriented development, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, white flight, working poor, Works Progress Administration

The result was the evisceration of the public realm. In some cities, the street was relegated entirely to the poor and the homeless in favor of underground malls and pedestrian bridges, which continue to sap vitality from the street. Cities such as Dallas and Minneapolis built these stratified systems not because of the weather but to allow cars free rein of the terra firma. Dallas justified its system with the following explanation: “One of the chief contributing factors to traffic congestion is crowds of pedestrians interrupting the flow of traffic at intersections.”cc What some cities would now give to regain those pedestrian crowds! Astratified public realm for a stratified society: pedestrian bridges abandon the street to the underclass An appropriate fate for the Motor City: freeways and parking lots paved the way for Detroit’s decline (shown in 1950 and 1990) It is difficult to count the number of cities that have been extensively damaged by kowtowing to the demands of the automobile.


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A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy

Alvin Roth, behavioural economics, British Empire, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, car-free, carbon tax, central bank independence, clean water, Corn Laws, Cornelius Vanderbilt, creative destruction, credit crunch, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, Dr. Strangelove, Eugene Fama: efficient market hypothesis, first-price auction, floating exchange rates, follow your passion, full employment, George Akerlof, Great Leap Forward, greed is good, Hyman Minsky, inflation targeting, invisible hand, John Nash: game theory, John von Neumann, Joseph Schumpeter, Kenneth Arrow, loss aversion, low interest rates, market clearing, market design, means of production, Minsky moment, moral hazard, Nash equilibrium, new economy, Occupy movement, Pareto efficiency, Paul Samuelson, Phillips curve, prisoner's dilemma, RAND corporation, rent-seeking, Richard Thaler, rising living standards, road to serfdom, Robert Shiller, Robert Solow, Ronald Reagan, sealed-bid auction, second-price auction, The Chicago School, The Great Moderation, The Market for Lemons, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Thorstein Veblen, trade route, Vickrey auction, Vilfredo Pareto, washing machines reduced drudgery, wealth creators, Winter of Discontent

If nations specialise in the production of goods that they’re relatively better at making (in other words, in their comparative advantage) and trade with other nations, then all nations are made better off, said Ricardo. If Cuba found it easier to grow sugar than to make cars, then Cuba should sell sugar to America and buy American cars. Free trade would help poor countries like Cuba to achieve standards of living closer to those of the rich countries, so the theory went. Prebisch said that this was wrong. Poor countries like Cuba tended to export ‘primary’ products such as sugar, coffee and bananas. Rich countries tended to export manufactured products like television sets and cars.


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Life as a Passenger: How Driverless Cars Will Change the World by David Kerrigan

3D printing, Airbnb, airport security, Albert Einstein, autonomous vehicles, big-box store, Boeing 747, butterfly effect, call centre, car-free, Cesare Marchetti: Marchetti’s constant, Chris Urmson, commoditize, computer vision, congestion charging, connected car, DARPA: Urban Challenge, data science, deep learning, DeepMind, deskilling, disruptive innovation, Donald Shoup, driverless car, edge city, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, fake news, Ford Model T, future of work, General Motors Futurama, hype cycle, invention of the wheel, Just-in-time delivery, Lewis Mumford, loss aversion, Lyft, Marchetti’s constant, Mars Rover, megacity, Menlo Park, Metcalfe’s law, Minecraft, Nash equilibrium, New Urbanism, QWERTY keyboard, Ralph Nader, RAND corporation, Ray Kurzweil, ride hailing / ride sharing, Rodney Brooks, Sam Peltzman, self-driving car, sensor fusion, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, smart cities, Snapchat, Stanford marshmallow experiment, Steve Jobs, technological determinism, technoutopianism, TED Talk, the built environment, Thorstein Veblen, traffic fines, transit-oriented development, Travis Kalanick, trolley problem, Uber and Lyft, Uber for X, uber lyft, Unsafe at Any Speed, urban planning, urban sprawl, warehouse robotics, Yogi Berra, young professional, zero-sum game, Zipcar

Less than 3% of the transportation plans for the 50 most populous cities in the US even mention the transit impacts of ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft, let alone driverless cars. Expert opinion on the impact of driverless cars on urban sprawl is divided. On one side, the argument goes that if driverless cars free up parking and garage space, there will be plentiful affordable new residential capacity negating the need for people to move further from city centres for affordable housing. On the other side, the argument goes that if people can be otherwise occupied during even a long commute, they will still be willing to move further from the city centre or their place of employment to have the residence they wish, perhaps with larger gardens than typical closer to the city.


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Lonely Planet Maldives (Travel Guide) by Planet, Lonely, Masters, Tom

British Empire, car-free, carbon footprint, haute cuisine, income inequality, Skype, sovereign wealth fund, sustainable-tourism, trade route, women in the workforce

Chartered seaplanes run by Trans Maldivian Airways collect arrivals at Male Airport and fly them direct to their resorts; a pricey but beautiful and very convenient way to travel. Boat Most transport in Maldives is by boat, for obvious reasons. Resorts collect guests from Male or regional airstrips by speedboat, a fast and comfortable way to travel. Independent travellers will need to use the slow but cheap public ferry system to get around. Car Most islands are totally car free, with the exception of Male and a few other larger inhabited islands, where taxis are a good way to get around. On resorts, you'll often be driven to your room in a golf cart. If You Like... Romance Cocoa Island by COMO Simple luxury with little fuss, this gorgeous island is perfect for high end romance.


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Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required by Kristy Shen, Bryce Leung

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Airbnb, Apollo 13, asset allocation, barriers to entry, buy low sell high, call centre, car-free, Columbine, cuban missile crisis, Deng Xiaoping, digital nomad, do what you love, Elon Musk, fear of failure, financial independence, fixed income, follow your passion, Great Leap Forward, hedonic treadmill, income inequality, index fund, John Bogle, junk bonds, longitudinal study, low cost airline, Mark Zuckerberg, mortgage debt, Mr. Money Mustache, obamacare, offshore financial centre, passive income, Ponzi scheme, risk tolerance, risk/return, side hustle, Silicon Valley, single-payer health, Snapchat, Steve Jobs, subprime mortgage crisis, supply-chain management, the rule of 72, working poor, Y2K, Zipcar

But their used minivan cost just $8,000, and gas and maintenance work out to roughly $300 per year. He’ll buy a used car for their daughter for around $5,000, plus $2,000 a year for gas and extra insurance. All told, Justin is expecting to spend around $14,000 on their family’s two cars. Jeremy, a car-free bike enthusiast, scoffed at my question, saying his so-called transportation costs totaled something like $150—for a stroller. He does not intend to buy his son a car, since he doesn’t feel the need to own one either. He prefers to take public transit and bike around Taipei with his son. Pete estimates it costs around 50 cents per mile, on average, to drive, but you can cut this cost in half by driving a fuel-efficient hatchback, bought used with cash.


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A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next by Tom Standage

accelerated depreciation, active transport: walking or cycling, autonomous vehicles, back-to-the-city movement, bike sharing, car-free, carbon footprint, Cesare Marchetti: Marchetti’s constant, Chris Urmson, City Beautiful movement, Clapham omnibus, congestion charging, coronavirus, COVID-19, deep learning, Didi Chuxing, Donald Shoup, driverless car, Elaine Herzberg, Elon Musk, flex fuel, Ford Model T, Ford paid five dollars a day, garden city movement, General Motors Futurama, Ida Tarbell, Induced demand, interchangeable parts, invention of the wheel, James Watt: steam engine, Jane Jacobs, jitney, Joan Didion, John Zimmer (Lyft cofounder), Lewis Mumford, lockdown, Lyft, Marshall McLuhan, minimum wage unemployment, oil shock, Own Your Own Home, peak oil, prompt engineering, Ralph Nader, Richard Florida, ride hailing / ride sharing, Rosa Parks, safety bicycle, self-driving car, social distancing, Steve Jobs, streetcar suburb, tech bro, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, trade route, Travis Kalanick, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, unbiased observer, Unsafe at Any Speed, Upton Sinclair, urban planning, urban sprawl, Victor Gruen, W. E. B. Du Bois, walkable city, white flight, wikimedia commons, Yom Kippur War, Zipcar

They imposed lower speed limits, gradually replaced on-street parking with cycle lanes and wider sidewalks for pedestrians, and excluded cars from some areas altogether. Helsinki has established a 745-mile network of bike paths, which are even cleared of snow in winter; Oslo raised parking charges and tolls to enter the city, established car-free zones around schools, and shifted some city-center deliveries from vans to electric cargo bikes. Together with high levels of investment in public transport, all this has reduced the volume and speed of traffic on city streets, with a resulting fall in deaths and injuries. In 2020 cities around the world, from Paris to Milan to Kampala, took advantage of coronavirus lockdowns to move in the same direction, creating new bike lanes and broadening sidewalks to reclaim street space from cars.


England by David Else

active transport: walking or cycling, Albert Einstein, back-to-the-land, Berlin Wall, Bletchley Park, Boris Johnson, British Empire, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, colonial rule, Columbine, company town, congestion charging, country house hotel, Crossrail, David Attenborough, David Brooks, Edward Jenner, Etonian, food miles, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, high-speed rail, Isaac Newton, James Watt: steam engine, Kickstarter, Mahatma Gandhi, mass immigration, Nelson Mandela, new economy, New Urbanism, out of africa, period drama, place-making, retail therapy, sceptred isle, Skype, Sloane Ranger, South of Market, San Francisco, Stephen Hawking, the market place, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, unbiased observer, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, Winter of Discontent

The free monthly listings magazine twenty4-seven (www.twenty4-seven.co.uk) covers all the latest bars, gigs and clubs, and is available from tourist offices, bars and restaurants. Activities There’s a distinct whiff of adrenalin in Devon and Cornwall. Their landscapes lend themselves to activities ranging from amped-up adventure to chilled-out wanderings. The tourist board’s subsite (Click here) is completely car free and sweeps from Bodmin Moor to Padstow. Bikes can be hired in most large towns; we specify options throughout. SURFING Cornwall is a magnet for Britain’s surfers, with excellent breaks running all the way from Porthleven (near Helston) in Cornwall, west around Land’s End and along the north coast.

Getting There & Around To reach some remote spots you will need your own wheels. However, if you’re determined, many rural areas are accessible by public transport, and if you’re sticking to the main towns and sights, it’s perfectly possible to get around by bus and train. Timetables and transport maps are available from stations and tourist offices, and the handy Car-Free Days Out (www.carfreedaysout.com) booklet has comprehensive public-transport listings. For all bus and train timetables, call Traveline South West (0871 200 2233; www.travelinesw.com). BUS The region’s main towns and cities are served by regular National Express coaches. For local buses, the more remote the area, the less regular the service; parts of Dartmoor and west Cornwall can be particularly tricky to navigate.

The headland is also home to the country’s oldest surviving lighthouse tower, dating from around 1670 – it stands in the golf course about 300m before the car park beside the modern lighthouse. On the northern side of the headland, about 4 miles north of Bridlington, is the RSPB’s Bempton Cliffs Nature Reserve ( 01262-851179; pedestrian/car free/£3.50; visitor centre 10am-5pm Mar-Oct, 9.30am-4pm Nov-Feb). From April to August these cliffs are home to more than 200,000 nesting sea birds, including guillemots, razorbills, fulmars, a rare colony of gannets, and those supermodels of the seagull world, the delicate and elegant kittiwakes, with their fat and fluffy chicks.


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Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism by Robin Chase

Airbnb, Amazon Web Services, Andy Kessler, Anthropocene, Apollo 13, banking crisis, barriers to entry, basic income, Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL), bike sharing, bitcoin, blockchain, Burning Man, business climate, call centre, car-free, carbon tax, circular economy, cloud computing, collaborative consumption, collaborative economy, collective bargaining, commoditize, congestion charging, creative destruction, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, data science, deal flow, decarbonisation, different worldview, do-ocracy, don't be evil, Donald Shoup, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, Ethereum, ethereum blockchain, Eyjafjallajökull, Ferguson, Missouri, Firefox, Free Software Foundation, frictionless, Gini coefficient, GPS: selective availability, high-speed rail, hive mind, income inequality, independent contractor, index fund, informal economy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet of things, Jane Jacobs, Jeff Bezos, jimmy wales, job satisfaction, Kickstarter, Kinder Surprise, language acquisition, Larry Ellison, Lean Startup, low interest rates, Lyft, machine readable, means of production, megacity, Minecraft, minimum viable product, Network effects, new economy, Oculus Rift, off-the-grid, openstreetmap, optical character recognition, pattern recognition, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer lending, peer-to-peer model, Post-Keynesian economics, Richard Stallman, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Coase, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, Satoshi Nakamoto, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, self-driving car, shareholder value, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, six sigma, Skype, smart cities, smart grid, Snapchat, sovereign wealth fund, Steve Crocker, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, TaskRabbit, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Future of Employment, the long tail, The Nature of the Firm, Tragedy of the Commons, transaction costs, Turing test, turn-by-turn navigation, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, vertical integration, Zipcar

Zipcar thrived by leveraging the opening provided by the wasteful economics of current car consumption models—the fact that personally owned cars sit idle 95 percent of the time.4 But we weren’t the only ones leveraging idle capacity: The U.S. government similarly shared its R&D and satellites with everyone for global positioning systems (GPS), and the city of Bogotá, Colombia, took advantage of the fact that its thoroughfares were relatively car-free on Sunday mornings by turning the streets over to pedestrians, runners, bicyclists, and skaters and featuring performances throughout the city. Examples of exploiting the hidden value in idle assets abound once you start to look for them. Recognizing the role of excess capacity was the first of my epiphanies.


Istanbul Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

car-free, carbon footprint, low cost airline, supply-chain management, the built environment, urban sprawl, yield management

Princes’ Islands: fayton (horse-drawn carriage) ride on the car-less Princes’ Islands IZZET KERIBAR / GETTY IMAGES © The Best... ASight Haghia Triada Monastery, Heybeliada APlace to Eat Heyamola Ada Lokantası, Heybeliada APlace to Drink Yücetepe Kır Gazinosu Restaurant, Büyükada Top Tip One of the wonderful things about the Princes' Islands is that they are largely car-free zones. Be sure to enjoy a fayton (horse-drawn carriage) ride while you're here. Getting There & Away AFerry At least eight municipal ferries run to the islands daily from 6.50am to 7.40pm (to 9pm June to mid-September), departing from the Adalar İskelesi (Adalar Ferry Dock) at Kabataş. The most useful departure times for day-trippers are 8.40am, 10.40am and noon (8.30am, 9.30am, 10.30am and 11.30am June to mid-September).


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The Alps: A Human History From Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond by Stephen O'Shea

car-free, clockwork universe, Edward Snowden, Isaac Newton, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Large Hadron Collider, plutocrats, Snapchat, trade route

Back in the cozy cocoon of the car, my journey southward leads out of the trees and into grassier slopes punctuated with brutal chevrons of exposed rock. A traffic circle indicates that the town of Morzine has been reached. For the ski world, Morzine is famed for its high-altitude sister resort, Avoriaz, a car-free creation of jet-set entrepreneurs in the 1960s, led by an Olympic ski champion, Jean Vuarnet, who also lent his name to the must-have designer sunglasses. I smile as I pass Morzine, for Avoriaz holds two old memories for me. One, of being in an après-ski bar with a GI on leave who kept bewildering me by his mention of “Alvarez”—until I realized that was how he pronounced “Avoriaz.”


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Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil by Hamish McKenzie

Airbnb, Albert Einstein, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, barriers to entry, basic income, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Ben Horowitz, business climate, car-free, carbon footprint, carbon tax, Chris Urmson, Clayton Christensen, clean tech, Colonization of Mars, connected car, crony capitalism, Deng Xiaoping, Didi Chuxing, disinformation, disruptive innovation, Donald Trump, driverless car, Elon Musk, Fairchild Semiconductor, Ford Model T, gigafactory, Google Glasses, Hyperloop, information security, Internet of things, Jeff Bezos, John Markoff, low earth orbit, Lyft, Marc Andreessen, margin call, Mark Zuckerberg, Max Levchin, megacity, Menlo Park, Nikolai Kondratiev, oil shale / tar sands, paypal mafia, Peter Thiel, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, self-driving car, Shenzhen was a fishing village, short selling, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Snapchat, Solyndra, South China Sea, special economic zone, stealth mode startup, Steve Jobs, tech worker, TechCrunch disrupt, TED Talk, Tesla Model S, Tim Cook: Apple, Tony Fadell, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, universal basic income, urban planning, urban sprawl, Zenefits, Zipcar

Who’d want them? Of course, lots of people wanted them, and path dependency is real. We’d already carved up mountains, paved over swamplands, and invented garages to cater to our four-wheeled wonder wagons, so giving up on them now hardly seemed realistic. After a multitude of commenters disabused me of my car-free fantasy, I breathed a sigh of concession and moved on. It was about then that I discovered Tesla. I had joined Pando in April 2012, a few months after Steve Jobs, the cofounder and CEO of Apple, died, and I found a tech world still grieving the loss of its superstar. The industry was bereft of a figure who could command the world’s attention with the twitch of a stage-managed eyebrow, a man who could send the media into conniptions with an addendum to a slide show.


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Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are Thekeys to Sustainability by David Owen

A Pattern Language, active transport: walking or cycling, big-box store, Buckminster Fuller, car-free, carbon footprint, carbon tax, clean water, congestion charging, congestion pricing, delayed gratification, distributed generation, drive until you qualify, East Village, Easter island, electricity market, food miles, Ford Model T, garden city movement, hydrogen economy, invisible hand, Jane Jacobs, Jevons paradox, linear programming, McMansion, megaproject, Michael Shellenberger, military-industrial complex, Murano, Venice glass, Negawatt, New Urbanism, off grid, off-the-grid, oil shale / tar sands, PalmPilot, peak oil, placebo effect, Stewart Brand, systems thinking, Ted Nordhaus, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Thomas L Friedman, unemployed young men, urban planning, urban sprawl, walkable city, zero-sum game

But programs like Summer Streets don’t really lead anywhere, in terms of broad transportation strategy for urban areas. City bicyclists undoubtedly enjoyed being able to tool down Manhattan’s spine, virtually unimpeded, from the middle of Central Park to the Brooklyn Bridge, but removing motor traffic from upper Park Avenue didn’t make that street any less of a pedestrian wasteland than it already was. Car-free programs like Summer Streets treat pedestrians and bicyclists the way Robert Moses used to treat cars, by segregating them on expressways of their own. A better idea, which Bloomberg’s office announced a few weeks later, was a plan to reconfigure Broadway by closing two of its four lanes to vehicle traffic and turning those lanes over to pedestrians, bicyclists, and vendors.


Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

Apple Newton, Big Tech, Biosphere 2, car-free, computer age, El Camino Real, Future Shock, game design, General Magic , guns versus butter model, hive mind, Kevin Kelly, Maui Hawaii, means of production, Menlo Park, military-industrial complex, Multics, postindustrial economy, RAND corporation, Ronald Reagan, Sand Hill Road, Silicon Valley, Stephen Hawking, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, telemarketer, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, white picket fence

* * * Capture specific functions Microsoft Navajo NASA Flesh-eating bacteria Arthur Miller Kristy McNichol Lance Kerwin skateboard trail mix PERL Job description toner cartridge very really a lot ummm . . . Martin-Marietta FRIDAY Susan and Karla came into the living room when I was reading the Handbook of Highway Engineering, and they both flipped out. They totally grokked on it. We kept on oohing and ahhhing over the book's beautiful, car-free on-ramps, off-ramps, and overpasses - "So clean and pure and undriven." Karla noted that freeway engineers had their own techie code words, just as dull and impenetrable as geek talk. "Examples: subgrades, partial clover-leaf interchanges, cutslopes, and TBMs (Tunnel Boring Machines) . . ." "They even abused three-letter acronyms," said Karla, who also decreed that Rhoda Morgenstern would have dated a freeway engineer back in the 1970s.


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The Lost Decade: 2010–2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain by Polly Toynbee, David Walker

banking crisis, battle of ideas, bike sharing, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, Bullingdon Club, call centre, car-free, centre right, collective bargaining, congestion charging, corporate governance, crony capitalism, Crossrail, David Attenborough, Dominic Cummings, Donald Trump, Downton Abbey, energy transition, Etonian, financial engineering, first-past-the-post, G4S, gender pay gap, gig economy, Gini coefficient, global village, green new deal, Greta Thunberg, high net worth, housing crisis, income inequality, industrial robot, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), James Dyson, Jeremy Corbyn, Large Hadron Collider, low interest rates, manufacturing employment, mass immigration, moral panic, mortgage debt, North Sea oil, offshore financial centre, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, payday loans, pension reform, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, quantitative easing, Right to Buy, Saturday Night Live, selection bias, smart meter, Uber for X, ultra-processed food, urban renewal, working-age population

Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield forged post-industrial identities, some enthusiastically led by newly elected mayors. Croydon, hurt by the 2011 disturbances, regrouped. In the midst of austerity, some councils took courageous steps: Birmingham expanded pedestrian zones in the centre; Edinburgh announced monthly car-free days; Nottingham put a levy on workplace parking; Bath and Bristol moved towards congestion charging, Oxford towards a central-area car ban. Raising the Take Civic renewal has a long way to go. So much depends on reforming another legacy of the 2010s: the rickety financial underpinnings of councils.


EcoVillage at Ithaca Pioneering a Sustainable Culture (2005) by Liz Walker

car-free, Community Supported Agriculture, intentional community, microcredit, mortgage debt, New Urbanism, off-the-grid, place-making, planetary scale, ride hailing / ride sharing, systems thinking, the built environment, transit-oriented development, World Values Survey

Second, the fact that we live so close together makes carpooling and car sharing a natural. A third of EVI couples or families have been able to cut down to one vehicle, and two of our single homeowners are Jim Bosjolie EcoVillagers and friends raise the walls in a timber frame duplex in SONG. The “Eco” in EcoVillage 127 completely car-free. It helps that several families make their second cars available to other members who sign up to use them (for a small fee of 30 cents a mile). And one family with two young children doesn’t charge money but instead barters car use in return for childcare. Fewer cars make for less pollution and a reduced consumption of all the materials that go into producing and maintaining them.


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You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall by Colin Ellard

A Pattern Language, call centre, car-free, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, classic study, congestion pricing, Frank Gehry, global village, Google Earth, Jane Jacobs, Jaron Lanier, job satisfaction, Marshall McLuhan, McMansion, Neal Stephenson, Neil Armstrong, New Urbanism, peak oil, polynesian navigation, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Snow Crash, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the medium is the message, traveling salesman, urban planning, urban sprawl

Danish architect Jan Gehl made similar arguments in his classic book Life between Buildings and then went on to show the city of Copenhagen how to put such principles into effect in spectacular fashion.11 In the 1950s, like many other cities all across the world, Copenhagen found its dense core becoming choked with cars and empty of public spaces. Beginning with the placement of sidewalk cafés in the 1960s, Copenhagen’s city fathers began a protracted campaign to resurrect public space in the city. With Gehl’s help, this campaign reached its height with the opening of a major car-free pedestrian zone, the Strøget, which attracts throngs of visitors and residents and has become the crowning jewel of the city. The tactics used by Gehl to invite people back into city cores on foot have been so effective that now other cities, most recently New York, are trying to emulate them. At some point a new verb, “to copenhagenize,” has entered the lexicon to describe the measures recommended by Gehl.


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Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car by Anthony M. Townsend

A Pattern Language, active measures, AI winter, algorithmic trading, Alvin Toffler, Amazon Robotics, asset-backed security, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, backpropagation, big-box store, bike sharing, Blitzscaling, Boston Dynamics, business process, Captain Sullenberger Hudson, car-free, carbon footprint, carbon tax, circular economy, company town, computer vision, conceptual framework, congestion charging, congestion pricing, connected car, creative destruction, crew resource management, crowdsourcing, DARPA: Urban Challenge, data is the new oil, Dean Kamen, deep learning, deepfake, deindustrialization, delayed gratification, deliberate practice, dematerialisation, deskilling, Didi Chuxing, drive until you qualify, driverless car, drop ship, Edward Glaeser, Elaine Herzberg, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, extreme commuting, financial engineering, financial innovation, Flash crash, food desert, Ford Model T, fulfillment center, Future Shock, General Motors Futurama, gig economy, Google bus, Greyball, haute couture, helicopter parent, independent contractor, inventory management, invisible hand, Jane Jacobs, Jeff Bezos, Jevons paradox, jitney, job automation, John Markoff, John von Neumann, Joseph Schumpeter, Kickstarter, Kiva Systems, Lewis Mumford, loss aversion, Lyft, Masayoshi Son, megacity, microapartment, minimum viable product, mortgage debt, New Urbanism, Nick Bostrom, North Sea oil, Ocado, openstreetmap, pattern recognition, Peter Calthorpe, random walk, Ray Kurzweil, Ray Oldenburg, rent-seeking, ride hailing / ride sharing, Rodney Brooks, self-driving car, sharing economy, Shoshana Zuboff, Sidewalk Labs, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Skype, smart cities, Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia, SoftBank, software as a service, sovereign wealth fund, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, surveillance capitalism, technological singularity, TED Talk, Tesla Model S, The Coming Technological Singularity, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The future is already here, The Future of Employment, The Great Good Place, too big to fail, traffic fines, transit-oriented development, Travis Kalanick, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, urban planning, urban sprawl, US Airways Flight 1549, Vernor Vinge, vertical integration, Vision Fund, warehouse automation, warehouse robotics

Over eight million Americans now work from home, for instance—more than 5 percent of the workforce, and the share is rising fast. Instead of designing these new towns for people with supercommutes of more than 90 minutes each way, could we make them attractive to people with no commute? Rather than forcing people to choose between high density and auto dependence, could we harness microsprawl to create car-free neighborhoods with cheaper housing and more open space—as well as all the low-carbon conveniences of cities, like education, health care, and entertainment? Instead of simply speeding the delivery of Amazon orders, could municipal conveyors be the glue that makes circular systems for local manufacturing, retail, and services viable?


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Lonely Planet Washington, Oregon & the Pacific Northwest by Lonely Planet

Airbnb, big-box store, bike sharing, Boeing 747, British Empire, Burning Man, butterfly effect, car-free, carbon footprint, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, Day of the Dead, Frank Gehry, G4S, gentrification, glass ceiling, housing crisis, indoor plumbing, intermodal, Kickstarter, Lyft, Murano, Venice glass, New Urbanism, remote working, restrictive zoning, ride hailing / ride sharing, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, trade route, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, urban decay, urban planning, urban sprawl, V2 rocket, Works Progress Administration, Zipcar

There’s a US Forest Service visitor center and refreshment stand at the base of the falls. 8Information US Forest Service Visitors Center (%503-695-2372; 53000 E Historic Columbia River Hwy, Multnomah Falls Lodge; h9am-5pm) This info center inside Multnomah Falls Lodge is staffed by the Friends of Multnomah Falls and the US Forest Service; it has books, trail maps, and local information about hikes and bicycle routes, and you can buy a Northwest Forest Pass here. 8Getting There & Away The Historic Columbia River Hwy is most easily explored by car. To reach it, take exit 17 or 35 off I-84. For car-free day trips to Multnomah Falls, you can take the Columbia Gorge Express (%888-246-6420; www.columbiagorgeexpress.com) that runs three times per day to/from Portland (round trip $5). DON’T MISS TOP WATERFALLS Waterfalls are at their gushiest in spring. The following are all off Hwy 30 (the Historic Columbia River Hwy), listed from west to east.

zFestivals & Events Vancouver Craft Beer WeekBEER (www.vancouvercraftbeerweek.com; event tickets from $15; hlate May) A taste-tripping showcase for BC’s amazing craft-beer scene, with dozens of tasty events around the city. Vancouver International Jazz FestivalMUSIC (www.coastaljazz.ca; hJun) City-wide cornucopia of superstar shows and free outdoor events from mid-June. Car Free Day VancouverCARNIVAL (www.carfreevancouver.org; hJun & Jul; c) Neighborhoods throughout the city – including Main St and Commercial Dr – turn over their main drags for pedestrian-friendly food, music and market stalls. Eastside Culture CrawlART (www.culturecrawl.ca; hmid-Nov) Vancouver’s best visual-arts festival: a four-day gallery and studio open house with hundreds of participants. 4Sleeping 4Downtown & West End Samesun Backpackers LodgeHOSTEL$ (map Google map; %604-682-8226; www.samesun.com; 1018 Granville St, Downtown; dm/r incl breakfast from $62/180; iW; g10) Vancouver’s liveliest hostel is right on the city’s nightlife strip.


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The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future by Levi Tillemann

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, An Inconvenient Truth, Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, autonomous vehicles, banking crisis, Bear Stearns, car-free, carbon footprint, clean tech, creative destruction, decarbonisation, deindustrialization, demand response, Deng Xiaoping, Donald Trump, driverless car, electricity market, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, energy security, factory automation, Fairchild Semiconductor, Ford Model T, foreign exchange controls, gigafactory, global value chain, high-speed rail, hydrogen economy, index card, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), joint-stock company, Joseph Schumpeter, Kanban, Kickstarter, manufacturing employment, market design, megacity, Nixon shock, obamacare, off-the-grid, oil shock, planned obsolescence, Ralph Nader, RFID, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Rubik’s Cube, self-driving car, shareholder value, Shenzhen special economic zone , short squeeze, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, skunkworks, smart cities, Solyndra, sovereign wealth fund, special economic zone, Steve Jobs, Tesla Model S, too big to fail, Unsafe at Any Speed, zero-sum game, Zipcar

More than half of New York City households (56 percent) don’t have a car. This may seem unsurprising in the cramped quarters of Manhattan, but plenty of other cities are also trending the same way. In Washington, D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Baltimore more than 30 percent of households are car-free.9 The New Race: The Pizza Man Cometh But perhaps nothing harbors more potential to effect a fundamental paradigm shift in transportation than autonomous vehicles. The concept of a car that drives itself begins to blur the lines between cars and robots in potentially profound ways. And while it sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, that reality is already here today.


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The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith

British Empire, car-free, clean water, cognitive dissonance, correlation does not imply causation, Drosophila, dumpster diving, en.wikipedia.org, Gary Taubes, Haber-Bosch Process, longitudinal study, McMansion, meta-analysis, military-industrial complex, out of africa, peak oil, placebo effect, Rosa Parks, the built environment, vertical integration

We have to measure our personal longings against the damage to our home and we have to let that damage be real to us, emotionally, intellectually, spiritually. It’s hard to do this when our immediate needs are being met: the lights are on, the cupboards full. Still, that is our adult knowledge now, and our final adult task. Number two is to stop driving a car. You’ll quickly discover the structural impediments to car-free living. The entire built environment has been rearranged for the demands of the automobile, demands that are completely at odds with the needs of human community. US Americans use much more fossil fuel than Europeans, not just because we’re fixated on our individual entitlements, but because we were foolish enough to let suburbs, with their segregated distances between home, work, and material goods like food, become our dominant living pattern.


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Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work by Iain Gately

Albert Einstein, Alvin Toffler, autonomous vehicles, Beeching cuts, blue-collar work, Boris Johnson, British Empire, business intelligence, business process, business process outsourcing, California high-speed rail, call centre, car-free, Cesare Marchetti: Marchetti’s constant, Clapham omnibus, cognitive dissonance, congestion charging, connected car, corporate raider, DARPA: Urban Challenge, Dean Kamen, decarbonisation, Deng Xiaoping, Detroit bankruptcy, don't be evil, driverless car, Elon Musk, extreme commuting, Ford Model T, General Motors Futurama, global pandemic, Google bus, Great Leap Forward, Henri Poincaré, high-speed rail, Hyperloop, Jeff Bezos, lateral thinking, Lewis Mumford, low skilled workers, Marchetti’s constant, planned obsolescence, postnationalism / post nation state, Ralph Waldo Emerson, remote working, safety bicycle, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, social distancing, SpaceShipOne, stakhanovite, Steve Jobs, Suez crisis 1956, telepresence, Tesla Model S, Traffic in Towns by Colin Buchanan, urban planning, éminence grise

Both drivers and city-centre pedestrians would suffer as a result of congestion, and the aspirations of the entire population, of whom it was expected that they would take car ownership ‘as much for granted as an overcoat’, would be frustrated. The answer, in Professor Buchanan’s opinion, was to create ring roads around cities, and car-free zones within them: ‘Distasteful though we find the whole idea, we think that some deliberate limitation of the volume of motor traffic is quite unavoidable.’ He had visited California and Texas as part of his research, and concluded that: ‘The American policy of providing motorways for commuters can succeed, even in American conditions, only if there is a disregard for all considerations other than the free flow of traffic which seems sometimes to be almost ruthless.


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Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure by Tim Harford

An Inconvenient Truth, Andrew Wiles, banking crisis, Basel III, behavioural economics, Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, Black Swan, Boeing 747, business logic, car-free, carbon footprint, carbon tax, Cass Sunstein, charter city, Clayton Christensen, clean water, cloud computing, cognitive dissonance, complexity theory, corporate governance, correlation does not imply causation, creative destruction, credit crunch, Credit Default Swap, crowdsourcing, cuban missile crisis, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, Dava Sobel, Deep Water Horizon, Deng Xiaoping, disruptive innovation, double entry bookkeeping, Edmond Halley, en.wikipedia.org, Erik Brynjolfsson, experimental subject, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Fermat's Last Theorem, financial engineering, Firefox, food miles, Gerolamo Cardano, global supply chain, Great Leap Forward, Herman Kahn, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Isaac Newton, Jane Jacobs, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, John Harrison: Longitude, knowledge worker, loose coupling, Martin Wolf, mass immigration, Menlo Park, Mikhail Gorbachev, mutually assured destruction, Netflix Prize, New Urbanism, Nick Leeson, PageRank, Piper Alpha, profit motive, Richard Florida, Richard Thaler, rolodex, Shenzhen was a fishing village, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, South China Sea, SpaceShipOne, special economic zone, spectrum auction, Steve Jobs, supply-chain management, tacit knowledge, the market place, The Wisdom of Crowds, too big to fail, trade route, Tyler Cowen, Tyler Cowen: Great Stagnation, Virgin Galactic, web application, X Prize, zero-sum game

Kathryn Schulz, in her elegant book Being Wrong, describes the state of profound uncertainty that comes with feeling wrong about some fundamental belief. She compares it to being a toddler lost in the heart of Manhattan. But experimenting doesn’t have to be like that. On the very same day on which I read Schulz’s words, my three-year-old daughter was lost in the centre of London – on the South Bank, a car-free space that is otherwise just as bewildering as Times Square. And it didn’t bother her in the slightest: she bolted out of the door of a café and began to play hide and seek. Witnesses told her increasingly frantic family that she had sauntered along the bank of the Thames, playing on the street furniture, ducking behind benches, dancing around and exploring a space she found delightful.


Discover Greece Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

car-free, carbon footprint, credit crunch, G4S, haute couture, haute cuisine, low cost airline, pension reform, sensible shoes, too big to fail, trade route, urban renewal

In over a decade of radical urban renewal, Athens has reinvented itself. Post-Olympics Athens is conspicuously wealthier, more sophisticated and more cosmopolitan. The shift is evident in the stylish new restaurants, shops and hip hotels, and in the emerging artsy-industrial neighbourhoods and entertainment precincts. The car-free historic centre is an open-air museum, yet the city’s cultural and social life takes place around these ancient monuments, reconciling past and present. Just beyond this seductive city lies the plain of Attica, with awe-inspiring sites, such as the Temple of Poseidon. Nearby, across a short stretch of the Aegean, Hydra beckons, offering an island getaway from the city.


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Nomad Capitalist: How to Reclaim Your Freedom With Offshore Bank Accounts, Dual Citizenship, Foreign Companies, and Overseas Investments by Andrew Henderson

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Airbnb, airport security, Albert Einstein, Asian financial crisis, asset allocation, bank run, barriers to entry, birth tourism , bitcoin, blockchain, business process, call centre, capital controls, car-free, content marketing, cryptocurrency, currency risk, digital nomad, diversification, diversified portfolio, Donald Trump, Double Irish / Dutch Sandwich, Elon Musk, failed state, fiat currency, Fractional reserve banking, gentrification, intangible asset, land reform, low interest rates, medical malpractice, new economy, obamacare, offshore financial centre, passive income, peer-to-peer lending, Pepsi Challenge, place-making, risk tolerance, side hustle, Silicon Valley, Skype, too big to fail, white picket fence, work culture , working-age population

For example, even though I enjoyed driving a Mercedes in the United States, I much prefer not having the hassles of a car now. However, if you want to drive an amazing car, you can lease the most exotic cars on earth for a few thousand dollars a month. You are likely paying that in taxes already, and one simple business tweak could essentially make your dream car free. You want multiple homes? You can have them, as I will explain in this chapter. While my beach house is not in the Hamptons, traveling around the world has made me loathe that ‘scene.’ Nevertheless, you can easily rent a halfway decent place in the Hamptons for a month for $50,000, or find a better version of it overseas in Ibiza, Monaco, Rio or Dusa Nua.


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Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet by Klaus Schwab, Peter Vanham

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", "World Economic Forum" Davos, 3D printing, additive manufacturing, agricultural Revolution, air traffic controllers' union, Anthropocene, Apple II, Asian financial crisis, Asperger Syndrome, basic income, Berlin Wall, Big Tech, biodiversity loss, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, blockchain, blue-collar work, Branko Milanovic, Bretton Woods, British Empire, business process, capital controls, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, car-free, carbon footprint, carbon tax, centre right, clean tech, clean water, cloud computing, collateralized debt obligation, collective bargaining, colonial rule, company town, contact tracing, contact tracing app, Cornelius Vanderbilt, coronavirus, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, COVID-19, creative destruction, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, cryptocurrency, cuban missile crisis, currency peg, cyber-physical system, decarbonisation, demographic dividend, Deng Xiaoping, Diane Coyle, digital divide, don't be evil, European colonialism, Fall of the Berlin Wall, family office, financial innovation, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, future of work, gender pay gap, general purpose technology, George Floyd, gig economy, Gini coefficient, global supply chain, global value chain, global village, Google bus, green new deal, Greta Thunberg, high net worth, hiring and firing, housing crisis, income inequality, income per capita, independent contractor, industrial robot, intangible asset, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet of things, invisible hand, James Watt: steam engine, Jeff Bezos, job automation, joint-stock company, Joseph Schumpeter, Kenneth Rogoff, Khan Academy, Kickstarter, labor-force participation, lockdown, low interest rates, low skilled workers, Lyft, manufacturing employment, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, market fundamentalism, Marshall McLuhan, Martin Wolf, means of production, megacity, microplastics / micro fibres, Mikhail Gorbachev, mini-job, mittelstand, move fast and break things, neoliberal agenda, Network effects, new economy, open economy, Peace of Westphalia, Peter Thiel, precariat, Productivity paradox, profit maximization, purchasing power parity, race to the bottom, reserve currency, reshoring, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, San Francisco homelessness, School Strike for Climate, self-driving car, seminal paper, shareholder value, Shenzhen special economic zone , Shenzhen was a fishing village, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, social distancing, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, special economic zone, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, synthetic biology, TaskRabbit, The Chicago School, The Future of Employment, The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth, the scientific method, TikTok, Tim Cook: Apple, trade route, transfer pricing, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, union organizing, universal basic income, War on Poverty, We are the 99%, women in the workforce, working poor, working-age population, Yom Kippur War, young professional, zero-sum game

Indeed there were great warning signs for anyone who would take heed, and at the Forum's meetings in Davos, we paid close attention. In 1973, Aurelio Peccei, the club's president, gave a keynote speech at Davos about his organization's findings, warning of an impending end to growth. Still, after surviving multiple recessions and introducing some energy-saving measures such as daylight savings time and car-free Sundays, the world eventually returned to its familiar growth path in the 1980s. The days of 5 and 6 percent GDP growth were over (at least in the West), but growth levels of 3 to 4 percent there were not at all out of the ordinary. Other economies, including the Asian Tigers (South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore) helped to make up for the shortfall.


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Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet by Klaus Schwab

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", "World Economic Forum" Davos, 3D printing, additive manufacturing, agricultural Revolution, air traffic controllers' union, Anthropocene, Apple II, Asian financial crisis, Asperger Syndrome, basic income, Berlin Wall, Big Tech, biodiversity loss, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, blockchain, blue-collar work, Branko Milanovic, Bretton Woods, British Empire, business process, capital controls, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, car-free, carbon footprint, carbon tax, centre right, clean tech, clean water, cloud computing, collateralized debt obligation, collective bargaining, colonial rule, company town, contact tracing, contact tracing app, Cornelius Vanderbilt, coronavirus, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, COVID-19, creative destruction, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, cryptocurrency, cuban missile crisis, currency peg, cyber-physical system, decarbonisation, demographic dividend, Deng Xiaoping, Diane Coyle, digital divide, don't be evil, European colonialism, Fall of the Berlin Wall, family office, financial innovation, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, future of work, gender pay gap, general purpose technology, George Floyd, gig economy, Gini coefficient, global supply chain, global value chain, global village, Google bus, green new deal, Greta Thunberg, high net worth, hiring and firing, housing crisis, income inequality, income per capita, independent contractor, industrial robot, intangible asset, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet of things, invisible hand, James Watt: steam engine, Jeff Bezos, job automation, joint-stock company, Joseph Schumpeter, Kenneth Rogoff, Khan Academy, Kickstarter, labor-force participation, lockdown, low interest rates, low skilled workers, Lyft, manufacturing employment, Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, market fundamentalism, Marshall McLuhan, Martin Wolf, means of production, megacity, microplastics / micro fibres, Mikhail Gorbachev, mini-job, mittelstand, move fast and break things, neoliberal agenda, Network effects, new economy, open economy, Peace of Westphalia, Peter Thiel, precariat, Productivity paradox, profit maximization, purchasing power parity, race to the bottom, reserve currency, reshoring, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, San Francisco homelessness, School Strike for Climate, self-driving car, seminal paper, shareholder value, Shenzhen special economic zone , Shenzhen was a fishing village, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, social distancing, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, special economic zone, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, synthetic biology, TaskRabbit, The Chicago School, The Future of Employment, The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth, the scientific method, TikTok, Tim Cook: Apple, trade route, transfer pricing, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, union organizing, universal basic income, War on Poverty, We are the 99%, women in the workforce, working poor, working-age population, Yom Kippur War, young professional, zero-sum game

Indeed there were great warning signs for anyone who would take heed, and at the Forum's meetings in Davos, we paid close attention. In 1973, Aurelio Peccei, the club's president, gave a keynote speech at Davos about his organization's findings, warning of an impending end to growth. Still, after surviving multiple recessions and introducing some energy-saving measures such as daylight savings time and car-free Sundays, the world eventually returned to its familiar growth path in the 1980s. The days of 5 and 6 percent GDP growth were over (at least in the West), but growth levels of 3 to 4 percent there were not at all out of the ordinary. Other economies, including the Asian Tigers (South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore) helped to make up for the shortfall.


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Invention: A Life by James Dyson

3D printing, additive manufacturing, augmented reality, Boris Johnson, Buckminster Fuller, car-free, carbon footprint, coronavirus, country house hotel, COVID-19, electricity market, Elon Musk, Etonian, Fellow of the Royal Society, Ford Model T, global supply chain, Google Glasses, Indoor air pollution, James Dyson, James Watt: steam engine, lockdown, microplastics / micro fibres, mittelstand, remote working, rewilding, Saturday Night Live, side project, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, social distancing, sovereign wealth fund, uranium enrichment, warehouse automation, Winter of Discontent, Yom Kippur War, young professional

A true countryman who loved music, birds, and painting in watercolors, he had won five rugger caps for Scotland and served with the Household Cavalry during the thick of the action as his armored car pushed into Germany in the fiercely fought ember days of the Second World War. He was to become a lifelong friend. I last saw Logie shortly before he died in 2020. School was Gresham’s in Holt, remote and largely car-free then, a handsome Norfolk market town 130 miles northeast of London in that part of England, East Anglia, that curves out toward the North Sea and faces the Netherlands. Founded in the reign of “Bloody” Mary, or Queen Mary I, during the sixteenth century, Gresham’s, where my father was Head of Classics, had educated any number of highly individual and unorthodox young men who went on to both fame and infamy, such as the poet W.


The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler

A Pattern Language, blue-collar work, California gold rush, car-free, City Beautiful movement, corporate governance, Donald Trump, financial independence, fixed income, Ford Model T, Ford paid five dollars a day, Frank Gehry, gentrification, germ theory of disease, indoor plumbing, It's morning again in America, jitney, junk bonds, land tenure, Lewis Mumford, mass immigration, means of production, megastructure, Menlo Park, new economy, oil shock, Peter Calthorpe, place-making, plutocrats, postindustrial economy, Potemkin village, Ronald Reagan, Savings and loan crisis, Skinner box, Southern State Parkway, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, Whole Earth Review, working poor, Works Progress Administration, yellow journalism

I had taken perhaps thirty steps beyond the ticket gate when a great pang of rue corkscrewed through me, realizing that here Henry Ford had built a monument to everything that his life's work had obliterated in the American townscape. In keeping with the period scene, there were no cars in sight. How strange it was to amble down car-free streets-even if you could always hear the distant roar of the Southfield Freeway. I was curious what my fellow visitors thought, and so, bran­ dishing a pocket tape recorder, I asked them. They liked a lot of things about the place. The pottery demonstration, the tintype studio, the "old-fashioned" lunch they got at the Eagle Tavern stagecoach :nn, the little watchmaker's shop off " Main Street," the costumed "schoolmarm" ringing her bell on the village green, the sheep grazing in the Firestone farm pasture, and so on.


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A People's History of Poverty in America by Stephen Pimpare

affirmative action, British Empire, car-free, clean water, cognitive dissonance, Columbine, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, deindustrialization, delayed gratification, dumpster diving, East Village, Frederick Winslow Taylor, George Gilder, green new deal, hedonic treadmill, hiring and firing, Howard Zinn, illegal immigration, impulse control, income inequality, index card, it's over 9,000, Jane Jacobs, low skilled workers, Mahatma Gandhi, mass incarceration, meta-analysis, moral panic, Naomi Klein, New Urbanism, payday loans, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Solow, Ronald Reagan, San Francisco homelessness, subprime mortgage crisis, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, union organizing, urban renewal, W. E. B. Du Bois, War on Poverty, white flight, working poor, Works Progress Administration

Although they acknowledged how indispensable this exchange is to them for sheer survival, many women did not view it as “assistance” or “help” per se, because of the strong norms associated with sharing among members of the extended family.... I was told in numerous interviews that they received little or no “help” from family members, but on further elaboration, women would reveal receiving either cars, free rent, baby-sitting, clothes for their children, or numerous Christmas presents.84 Around the same time, rural Wisconsin resident Colleen Bennett told sociologist Mark Rank about her family:We’re all very close. We take care of each other if anybody has a problem. My husband and I have had financial problems on and off for years.


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Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff by Fred Pearce

additive manufacturing, air freight, Berlin Wall, biodiversity loss, blood diamond, British Empire, car-free, carbon footprint, clean water, congestion charging, corporate social responsibility, credit crunch, demographic transition, export processing zone, Fall of the Berlin Wall, food miles, ghettoisation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Isaac Newton, Kibera, Kickstarter, mass immigration, megacity, Nelson Mandela, new economy, oil shale / tar sands, out of africa, peak oil, Pearl River Delta, profit motive, race to the bottom, Shenzhen was a fishing village, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, Steve Jobs, the built environment, urban planning, urban sprawl, women in the workforce

From Ma’s office window, we could see below the huddled buildings of Shanghai’s old town. As we talked, bulldozers were tearing down the buildings to make way for new office blocks. Ma saw this as progress. He wanted to do away with the past. Tear down the old towns and create a bright new, green, future. But to me, the old town was a dense, largely car-free enclave, mixing homes and workplaces and shops. It was a model of green design, the perfect embodiment of the dreams of the new urbanists. But he didn’t see it. And still the bulldozers came. 34 Zero Carbon: Why We Can Halt Climate Change THE THREAT FROM global warming is greater than usually claimed.


Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett

Anthropocene, Big Tech, Buckminster Fuller, car-free, classic study, clean water, cognitive dissonance, company town, complexity theory, creative destruction, dematerialisation, Deng Xiaoping, double helix, Downton Abbey, driverless car, East Village, en.wikipedia.org, Evgeny Morozov, Frank Gehry, gentrification, ghettoisation, housing crisis, illegal immigration, informal economy, interchangeable parts, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jane Jacobs, Joseph Schumpeter, Kickstarter, Lewis Mumford, Mark Zuckerberg, Masdar, mass immigration, means of production, megacity, megaproject, new economy, Nicholas Carr, Norbert Wiener, open borders, place-making, plutocrats, post-truth, Richard Florida, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, SimCity, smart cities, Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia, surveillance capitalism, systems thinking, tacit knowledge, the built environment, The Chicago School, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the High Line, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, urban planning, urban renewal, Victor Gruen, Yochai Benkler

The plan is as follows: imagine a piece of Cerdian fabric, now composed of nine city blocks through which people and traffic flow across three horizontal and three vertical streets; in place of this there will be one superblock, a superilles; around its perimeter traffic will flow, and within the superblock the three horizontal and vertical streets will be pedestrianized. The logic of doing this is not just the amenity of car-free existence; rather, the concentration of sociable and economic activity at the chamfered corner is meant to spread out, because people can easily get to places throughout the superblock. Meant to begin in Cerdà’s home neighbourhood of Eixample, this remaking is sometimes sold as Jane-Jacobs-comes-to-Barcelona – but misleadingly; there’s nothing bottom-up about this plan.


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Sardinia Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, haute couture, Honoré de Balzac, Kickstarter, low cost airline, Skype

As a nascent industrial centre in a resurgent and soon-to-be-united Italy, Iglesias once again flourished until WWII and modern economics tolled its death knell in the 1970s. 1Sights Much of the pleasure of visiting Iglesias lies in the small medieval centre. There are no great must-see sights, but the narrow, car-free lanes and suggestive piazzas are in good nick and are much appreciated by locals who flock here to browse the shops and hang out in the bars. It's also in the centro storico (historic centre) that you'll find many of the churches that give the city its name. oCattedrale di Santa Chiara CATHEDRAL (Duomo; MAP GOOGLE MAP ; Piazza del Municipio) Dominating the eastern flank of Piazza del Municipio, the Cattedrale di Santa Chiara boasts a lovely Pisan-flavoured facade and a chequerboard stone bell tower.


Fodor's Normandy, Brittany & the Best of the North With Paris by Fodor's

call centre, car-free, carbon tax, flag carrier, glass ceiling, happiness index / gross national happiness, haute couture, haute cuisine, Henri Poincaré, high-speed rail, Kickstarter, Murano, Venice glass, Nelson Mandela, subprime mortgage crisis, urban planning, young professional

In-hotel: restaurant, some pets allowed | AE, DC, MC, V. Sarment d’Or. ¢–$ | This cozy little family-run hotel by the city walls, near the Dolder belfry, blends irreproachable modern comforts with bare-stone walls and dark-timber ceilings. Rooms are pleasant, bright, and clean, and despite Riquewihr’s being car-free, you can drive your vehicle up to the door for a luggage drop-off. The top-floor duplex suite is an exceptional value. The restaurant downstairs offers firelight romance and delicious cuisine—foie gras, frogs’ legs in garlic cream, and breast of duck in pinot noir; it’s closed Monday and does not serve dinner Sunday or lunch Tuesday.


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Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff

Abraham Maslow, Adam Curtis, addicted to oil, affirmative action, Alan Greenspan, Amazon Mechanical Turk, An Inconvenient Truth, anti-globalists, AOL-Time Warner, banks create money, Bear Stearns, benefit corporation, big-box store, Bretton Woods, car-free, Charles Lindbergh, colonial exploitation, Community Supported Agriculture, complexity theory, computer age, congestion pricing, corporate governance, credit crunch, currency manipulation / currency intervention, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, death of newspapers, digital divide, don't be evil, Donald Trump, double entry bookkeeping, easy for humans, difficult for computers, financial innovation, Firefox, full employment, General Motors Futurama, gentrification, Glass-Steagall Act, global village, Google Earth, greed is good, Herbert Marcuse, Howard Rheingold, income per capita, invention of the printing press, invisible hand, Jane Jacobs, John Nash: game theory, joint-stock company, Kevin Kelly, Kickstarter, laissez-faire capitalism, loss aversion, market bubble, market design, Marshall McLuhan, Milgram experiment, military-industrial complex, moral hazard, multilevel marketing, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, negative equity, new economy, New Urbanism, Norbert Wiener, peak oil, peer-to-peer, place-making, placebo effect, planned obsolescence, Ponzi scheme, price mechanism, price stability, principal–agent problem, private military company, profit maximization, profit motive, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, public intellectual, race to the bottom, RAND corporation, rent-seeking, RFID, road to serfdom, Ronald Reagan, scientific management, short selling, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, social software, Steve Jobs, Telecommunications Act of 1996, telemarketer, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas L Friedman, too big to fail, trade route, trickle-down economics, union organizing, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, Vannevar Bush, vertical integration, Victor Gruen, white flight, working poor, Works Progress Administration, Y2K, young professional, zero-sum game

In New York City, Streetsblog helped to hasten the departure of Mayor Bloomberg’s first DOT commissioner and create a new, more ambitious set of expectations for her successor. Today, with Janette Sadik-Khan at the helm, New York City’s DOT is pushing a bold program to create “sustainable streets” through the prioritization of pedestrians, transit, and bicycles. Concepts that were considered “crazy” and politically impossible—a car-free Times Square and physically separated bike lanes, for example—are now being planned, designed, and built. New York City DOT is not just reformed, it is transformed, and widely considered a leading example for transportation agencies in other U.S. cities to follow. People who contributed to Streetsblog in the early days are now working in the DOT commissioner’s office.


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The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils Our Future by Noreena Hertz

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", Airbnb, airport security, algorithmic bias, Asian financial crisis, autism spectrum disorder, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, big-box store, Broken windows theory, call centre, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, car-free, Cass Sunstein, centre right, conceptual framework, Copley Medal, coronavirus, correlation does not imply causation, COVID-19, dark matter, deindustrialization, Diane Coyle, digital divide, disinformation, Donald Trump, driverless car, emotional labour, en.wikipedia.org, Erik Brynjolfsson, Evgeny Morozov, fake news, Fellow of the Royal Society, future of work, gender pay gap, gentrification, gig economy, Gordon Gekko, greed is good, Greta Thunberg, happiness index / gross national happiness, housing crisis, illegal immigration, independent contractor, industrial robot, Jane Jacobs, Jeff Bezos, Jeremy Corbyn, Jessica Bruder, job automation, job satisfaction, karōshi / gwarosa / guolaosi, Kevin Roose, knowledge economy, labor-force participation, lockdown, longitudinal study, low interest rates, low skilled workers, Lyft, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, means of production, megacity, meta-analysis, move fast and break things, Network effects, new economy, Pepto Bismol, QWERTY keyboard, Ray Oldenburg, remote working, rent control, RFID, robo advisor, Ronald Reagan, Salesforce, San Francisco homelessness, Second Machine Age, Shoshana Zuboff, side hustle, Silicon Valley, Skype, Snapchat, social distancing, Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, SoftBank, Steve Jobs, surveillance capitalism, TaskRabbit, tech worker, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Future of Employment, The Great Good Place, the long tail, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, TikTok, Tim Cook: Apple, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, urban planning, Wall-E, warehouse automation, warehouse robotics, WeWork, work culture , working poor, workplace surveillance

Yet by means of a highly structured process with trained facilitators guiding the discussions, mindful of the need to ensure that everyone had equal voice and carefully drawing out the quietest, by the end of their two evenings and one full day of meetings the group had agreed upon seventeen steps to recommend. These ranged from the broad (‘Trial car-free zones and days’) to the more specific (‘Install more segregated cycle lanes’). Collectively, their recommendations will become the backbone of the council’s 2020 Climate Action Plan.32 In Taiwan a similar process is taking place, but at even greater scale. Since 2015, 200,000 people have taken part in a deliberative democratic process online.33 Issues debated so far include the regulation of drones, Uber’s entry into the Taiwanese market, the online sale of alcohol, whether plastic straws should be banned and the non-consensual publication of intimate images, what is known as ‘revenge porn’.


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Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World by Mark Vanhoenacker

Airbus A320, Boeing 747, British Empire, car-free, colonial rule, COVID-19, East Village, gentrification, Golden Gate Park, high-speed rail, Jane Jacobs, Johannes Kepler, Mahatma Gandhi, mass immigration, megacity, Nelson Mandela, Pearl River Delta, period drama, Richard Florida, spice trade, Suez canal 1869, trade route, urban planning

Finally, in 1988, on Dad’s fifty-seventh birthday, England Brothers will close, dealing a dreadful blow to the city’s downtown. The area’s first out-of-town mall will open seven months later (one autumn day after school I’ll take the new bus route out to it, and I’ll walk past the shops that line what to me is the marvel of an indoor street, a car-free thoroughfare that need never be snowplowed or sanded). Ten years after that, the old England Brothers building will be demolished, but the store’s distinctive sky-blue boxes, with their logo composed of three strung-together black lamps, will surface now and then in my life well into the next century, until the corners of the last, in which Mom wrapped in white tissue the Christmas ornaments Dad made, break down and I throw the remains away.


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Florence & Tuscany by Lonely Planet

Bonfire of the Vanities, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, European colonialism, haute couture, Kickstarter, period drama, Pier Paolo Pasolini, post-work, retail therapy, sensible shoes, Skype, trade route, urban planning

For tips, recommendations and reviews, head to shop.lonelyplanet.com to purchase a downloadable PDF of the Turin, Piedmont & the Italian Riviera chapter from Lonely Planet’s Italy guide. Pietrasanta POP 24,900 Often overlooked by Tuscan travellers, this refined art town is a real unexpected surprise. Its bijou historic heart, originally walled, is car-free and loaded with tiny art galleries, workshops and fashion boutiques – perfect for a day’s amble broken only by lunch. Founded by Guiscardo da Pietrasanta, podestà (governing magistrate) of Lucca in 1255, Pietrasanta was seen as a prize by Genoa, Lucca, Pisa and Florence, all of whom jostled for possession of its marble quarries and bronze foundries.


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Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism by Elizabeth Becker

airport security, Asian financial crisis, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, BRICs, car-free, carbon footprint, clean water, collective bargaining, colonial rule, computer age, corporate governance, Costa Concordia, Deng Xiaoping, European colonialism, Exxon Valdez, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Frank Gehry, global village, Global Witness, Great Leap Forward, happiness index / gross national happiness, haute cuisine, high-speed rail, indoor plumbing, Kickstarter, Masdar, Murano, Venice glass, open borders, out of africa, race to the bottom, Ralph Nader, Scramble for Africa, Silicon Valley, statistical model, sustainable-tourism, the market place, union organizing, urban renewal, wage slave, young professional, éminence grise

The quai became a promenade with gardens, paths and in the center a long shallow reflecting pool or “water mirror” to catch the light from the sky and reflect the old eighteenth-century bourse, or stock exchange. Finally, Juppé built a modern tramway system that eliminates unnecessary driving and opens up the old city to pedestrians again with public squares, green spaces and car-free walkways. For Bordeaux, this was the equivalent of the Boston Big Dig. For French tourism officials, it was the Big Payoff. From the beginning, they had watched and fostered the renaissance of Bordeaux, promoting this “sleeping beauty” as returned to the living and figuring out how Bordeaux could add new glamour to the French tourist agenda.


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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz

affirmative action, Alan Greenspan, anti-communist, banking crisis, Bear Stearns, behavioural economics, Bernie Madoff, Boeing 747, car-free, Cass Sunstein, cognitive dissonance, colonial rule, conceptual framework, cosmological constant, cuban missile crisis, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, dark matter, David Sedaris, desegregation, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, lake wobegon effect, longitudinal study, mandatory minimum, mirror neurons, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Ronald Reagan, six sigma, stem cell, Steven Pinker, subprime mortgage crisis, Tenerife airport disaster, the scientific method, The Wisdom of Crowds, theory of mind, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, trade route

., “Borderline Personality Disorder: Splitting Countertransference,” Psychiatric Times, Vol. 15, No. 11 (Nov. 1, 1988). “self-subversive thinking.” Tetlock, 214. doctors interrupt their patients. Jerome Groopman, How Doctors Think (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007), 17. John Francis. Mark Hertsgaard, “John Francis, a ‘Planetwalker’ Who Lived Car-Free and Silent for 17 Years, Chats with Grist,” Grist, May 10, 2005. Francis’s book is Planetwalker: How to Change Your World One Step at a Time (Elephant Mountain Press, 2005). The quotation appears on p. 44. Joseph-Marie de Maistre. Bates, 203. “the general will cannot err.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Lester G.


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Farewell by Sergei Kostin, Eric Raynaud

active measures, car-free, cuban missile crisis, disinformation, Dr. Strangelove, index card, invisible hand, kremlinology, Lao Tzu, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, Ronald Reagan, Strategic Defense Initiative, Vladimir Vetrov: Farewell Dossier

A detail worth noting in his deposition, Vetrov admitted that no sooner had he made his request, he stopped, suddenly realizing that he had reached a point of no return. From now on, he would be a mole paid by an adversarial service. Yet, he did not need money to survive or to live better. He had everything a Soviet citizen could dream of, with a luxuriously furnished apartment in an upscale district, a house in the countryside, a car, free medical care for the entire family, and his son’s higher education paid. The “island” is what he thought he would be able to buy in that life awaiting him on the other side of the border. In his current life, a bottle of scotch for him or cheap jewelry for his mistress was all he needed. The value of Vetrov’s confession on this account is relative.


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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made by Gaia Vince

3D printing, agricultural Revolution, Anthropocene, bank run, biodiversity loss, car-free, carbon footprint, carbon tax, circular economy, citizen journalism, clean water, climate change refugee, congestion charging, crowdsourcing, decarbonisation, deindustrialization, driverless car, energy security, failed state, Google Earth, Haber-Bosch Process, hive mind, hobby farmer, informal economy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ITER tokamak, Kickstarter, Late Heavy Bombardment, load shedding, M-Pesa, Mars Rover, Masdar, megacity, megaproject, microdosing, mobile money, Neil Armstrong, ocean acidification, off grid, oil shale / tar sands, out of africa, Peter Thiel, phenotype, planetary scale, planned obsolescence, Ray Kurzweil, rewilding, Silicon Valley, Skype, smart cities, smart grid, smart meter, South China Sea, sovereign wealth fund, stem cell, supervolcano, sustainable-tourism, synthetic biology

The entire city is on a raised platform so that the smart-metered services – from waste to water – can be monitored and accessed from underneath. Masdar plans to be carbon neutral and is powered by an enormous solar station and wind farms, with buildings that incorporate smart shading, solar panels and architecture to maximise cooling breezes. The city, which aims to be completed by 2020, is car-free with above- and below-ground driverless electric transport pods that operate like a personal rapid transit system. The human network is key to next-generation smart cities, to reducing energy consumption and more effective use of the city in all ways. Crowd-sourcing and collaborative mapping are two such techniques that over the past few years have revolutionised information creation on the Internet without the need for massive infrastructure projects to plant sensors across cities.


The Rough Guide to Brussels 4 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) by Dunford, Martin.; Lee, Phil; Summer, Suzy.; Dal Molin, Loik

Berlin Wall, bike sharing, British Empire, car-free, Fall of the Berlin Wall, gentrification, glass ceiling, low cost airline, Peace of Westphalia, sustainable-tourism, trade route, urban planning

For spectators, Brussels plays host to many national cycling meets and has also been a stop-off point for the Tour de France. Top of the list is the Eddy Merckx Grand Prix, named in honour of the great Belgian cyclist and held on the last Sunday in August; it’s a timed event attracting top professionals (call T 02 349 19 11 for information). For those who would rather cycle than watch, highlights include the European Car-Free Day (third Sun in Sept, W www.mobilityweek.eu), when cyclists take over the entire city centre. The Dring Dring cycling week (W www.dringdring.be), held in May, kicks off with a bike festival in the Parc du Cinquantenaire, where you can pick up an old bike, learn how to become a bike mechanic or take tours of the city on two wheels.


Fodor's Essential Belgium by Fodor's Travel Guides

Airbnb, Albert Einstein, augmented reality, bike sharing, blood diamond, car-free, carbon footprint, Charles Lindbergh, colonial rule, coronavirus, COVID-19, Easter island, Ford Model T, gentrification, haute cuisine, index card, Kickstarter, low cost airline, New Urbanism, out of africa, QR code, retail therapy, rewilding, ride hailing / ride sharing, starchitect, three-masted sailing ship, trade route, urban renewal, urban sprawl, young professional

In 2019, repeated public complaints finally saw Aalst’s carnival stripped of its UNESCO status due to its refusal to remove anti-Semitic images, while Ath’s Giants’ Parade sparked similar protests over its “sauvage” (savage) character. As large gatherings return post-COVID, traditional folk festivals may face a long-overdue reckoning. BYE-BYE TO CARS Cars are increasingly unwelcome in Belgium’s cities. Ghent banished vehicles from its historic center in 2017, Bruges is so difficult to drive in that it’s practically car-free by default, and Antwerp is planning on emptying the motoring heart of the city by 2024. But Brussels has the biggest plans of all and is slowly freeing up its center, having paved the once-busy Bourse and Boulevard Anspach. It now claims the second-largest pedestrianized area in Europe, even if locals grumble this has increased traffic on the already jammed outskirts.


Italy by Damien Simonis

active transport: walking or cycling, airport security, bike sharing, Bonfire of the Vanities, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, clean water, company town, congestion charging, dark pattern, discovery of the americas, Frank Gehry, haute couture, high-speed rail, illegal immigration, Kickstarter, Kinder Surprise, large denomination, low cost airline, Murano, Venice glass, pension reform, period drama, Peter Eisenman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, retail therapy, Skype, spice trade, starchitect, sustainable-tourism, trade route, urban planning, urban sprawl, women in the workforce

MEDICAL SERVICES Farmacia Internazionale (Map; 081 837 04 85; Via Roma 45, Capri Town) Hospital (Map; 081 838 12 05; Via Provinciale Anacapri 5) POST Post office Capri Town (Map; 081 978 52 11; Via Roma 50); Anacapri (Map; 081 837 10 15; Via de Tommaso 8) TOURIST INFORMATION Tourist office Marina Grande (Map; 081 837 06 34; 9am-1pm & 3.30-6.45pm Jun-Sep, 9am-3pm Mon-Sat Oct-May); Capri Town (Map; 081 837 06 86; Piazza Umberto I; 8.30am-8.30pm Jun-Sep, 9am-1pm & 3.30-6.45pm Mon-Sat Oct-May); Anacapri (Map; 081 837 15 24; Via Orlandi 59; 8.30am-8.30pm Jun-Sep, 9am-3pm Mon-Sat Oct-Dec & Mar-May) Each tourist office can provide a free map of the island with town plans of Capri and Anacapri, and a more detailed one for €1. For hotel listings and other useful information, ask for a free copy of Capri è. Sights CAPRI TOWN With its whitewashed stone buildings and tiny car-free streets, Capri Town evokes a film set. In summer its toy-town streets swell with camera-wielding day-trippers and the glossy rich. Central to the action is Piazza Umberto I (aka the Piazzetta), the showy, open-air salon where tanned tourists pay eye-watering prices to sip at one of four squareside cafes.

Robert Guiscard made it the capital of his dukedom in 1076 and, under his patronage, the Scuola Medica Salernitana was renowned as one of medieval Europe’s greatest medical institutes. More recently, it was left in tatters by the heavy fighting that followed the 1943 landings of the American 5th Army, just south of the city. Orientation Salerno’s train station is on Piazza Vittorio Veneto, at the eastern end of town. The main strip, the car-free Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, leads off northwest to the centro storico. Running parallel is Corso Garibaldi, which becomes Via Roma as it heads out of the city towards the Amalfi Coast. Information Ospedale Ruggi D’Aragona ( 089 67 11 11; Via San Leonardo) Hospital. Post office ( 089 257 20 49; Corso Garibaldi 203) Tourist office ( 089 23 14 32; Piazza Vittorio Veneto 1; 9am-2pm & 3-8pm Mon-Sat year-round, plus 9am-12.30pm & 5-7.30pm Sun Jul & Aug) Sights The highlight of the centro storico is the impressive cathedral ( 089 23 13 87; Piazza Alfano; 10am-6pm).

Check the website for upcoming retreats and courses. FSE runs regular trains between Galatina and Lecce (€1.30, 30 minutes, hourly). Return to beginning of chapter OTRANTO pop 5500 Otranto overlooks a pretty harbour with brightly painted boats atop shimmering clear blue waters. In the historic centre, looming golden walls guard narrow car-free lanes, protecting countless pretty little shops selling touristic odds and ends. In July and August it’s one of Puglia’s most vibrant towns. Much is closed in the low season. Otranto was Italy’s main port to the Orient for 1000 years, and suffered a brutal history. There are fanciful tales that King Minos was here and St Peter is supposed to have celebrated the first Western Mass here.


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Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First by Frank Trentmann

Abraham Maslow, Airbnb, Alan Greenspan, Anton Chekhov, Ayatollah Khomeini, behavioural economics, Berlin Wall, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, bread and circuses, British Empire, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, car-free, carbon footprint, Cass Sunstein, choice architecture, classic study, clean water, collaborative consumption, collective bargaining, colonial exploitation, colonial rule, Community Supported Agriculture, company town, critique of consumerism, cross-subsidies, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, deindustrialization, dematerialisation, Deng Xiaoping, deskilling, equity premium, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Fellow of the Royal Society, financial exclusion, fixed income, food miles, Ford Model T, full employment, gentrification, germ theory of disease, global village, Great Leap Forward, haute cuisine, Herbert Marcuse, high net worth, income inequality, index card, informal economy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet of things, it's over 9,000, James Watt: steam engine, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, Joseph Schumpeter, Kitchen Debate, knowledge economy, labour mobility, Les Trente Glorieuses, libertarian paternalism, Livingstone, I presume, longitudinal study, mass immigration, McMansion, mega-rich, Michael Shellenberger, moral panic, mortgage debt, Murano, Venice glass, Naomi Klein, New Urbanism, Paradox of Choice, Pier Paolo Pasolini, planned obsolescence, pneumatic tube, post-industrial society, Post-Keynesian economics, post-materialism, postnationalism / post nation state, profit motive, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, public intellectual, purchasing power parity, Ralph Nader, rent control, retail therapy, Richard Thaler, Right to Buy, Ronald Reagan, school vouchers, scientific management, Scientific racism, Scramble for Africa, seminal paper, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Skype, stakhanovite, Ted Nordhaus, the built environment, the market place, The Spirit Level, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas L Friedman, Thomas Malthus, Thorstein Veblen, trade liberalization, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, union organizing, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban sprawl, Washington Consensus, women in the workforce, working poor, young professional, zero-sum game

Voluntary simplicity, similarly, faces the challenge that, however much we might want to, it is extremely difficult as an individual to simplify one’s lifestyle if the world around us continues to tick to a different rhythm. Voluntary simplifiers find themselves in a position akin to shift-workers whose schedule is out of synch with everyone else’s.92 Collective changes to everyday rhythms have greater promise. Car-free Sundays appeared during the oil crisis in 1973 and were selectively rediscovered in 2010 by Hamburg, Bern and in Paris along a stretch of the Seine. The French thirty-five-hour week, introduced in 2000, freed up Saturdays for family time and sport. Yet it also increased the number taking weekend breaks.93 Even collective interventions face their limits in an age of personalized scheduling and the simultaneity of ‘timeless time’ offered by email and wireless technologies.94 Faster physical and virtual communication have created the ‘long weekend’.

F. 158 Mun, Thomas 97 Muncie, Indiana 248, 280–81 Munich 568 municipal socialism 182 municipal waste 305, 622–7, 630–53 Murano 29 Murobuse Takanobu 377–8 Murray, Gilbert 306 Muscular Dystrophy Group 555 museums 231, 262, 467, 477, 546 music: artists 263, 351, 352; composition 267; cultures 351–3; festivals 351–2, 685; genres 346, 467 see also jazz; opera; popular music; halls 201, 213; making 463, 465–6, 467, 472; recordings and broadcasting 263, 265, 267–8, 294, 464, 466–8, 685 musical instruments 30, 31, 32, 36, 52, 170, 279, 314, 463, 465, 466, 467; pianos see pianos Muslims see Islam/Muslims muslin 65, 67, 139, 193, 195 Mustafa III 40 Nader, Ralph 552, 555; ‘Nader’s Raiders’ 553 Naidu, Sarojini 298 Nanjing 43, 44, 46, 47; Treaty of 298 napkins 21, 30, 34, 55, 57, 77, 108, 115 Naples 351 Napoleonic Wars 116 Nasser, Gamal Abdel 300 National Cash Register Company (US) 530 National Consumer Council (NCC) 551, 560 National Consumers’ League 287 national dress 297–8, 299–300 national economics (Nationalökonomie) 116, 153, 154 National Health Service (NHS) 522, 538, 556, 560 national identity 204, 242, 296–8, 379, 566 see also anti-colonialism; nationalism national parks 281 National Products movement, China 299 National Spastics Society 555 nationalism 116, 196, 274; and advertising 172–3; aggressive 119; anticolonial see anti-colonialism; arson by nationalists 322; and boycotts see boycotts; Chinese 298–9; and consumerist modernity 298; consumption, savings and 364, 415; Egyptian 299–300; and exotic goods 168–9; and identity see national identity; Indian 129, 137, 143, 144, 268, 296–8, 379–80; Japanese 363; and marketing 298; and mass consumer culture 167; national music festivals 351–2; national products 297–300; ‘national’ shops 300; organized consumers’ contribution to 297–300; and shared moral script 385; South Korean 385; Wafdist 299; and youth ideals 496 nationalization 277, 391 Nazism 11, 234, 235, 274, 289–92, 414; culinary Aryanization programme 598; film 313; and materialism 301, 306 necessity 75, 100, 201, 289, 345, 359, 500, 518 see also needs neckerchiefs 68 Neckermann 513 needlework 457, 458, 462 needs see also necessity: and affluence 272–3, 320–21, 508–9; emotional 321; expansion of 278–9; false 329; hierarchy of 272–3; and wants 5, 294, 365, 407, 677 Negri, Pola 282 negroes 63 see also African-Americans Nehru, Jawaharlal 298, 357, 381 neo-liberalism 5, 273, 389, 391, 392, 403, 522, 549, 553, 567 Nepal 589–90 Nestel, Georg Christoph 42 Nestlé 565, 618–19 Netherlands/the Dutch: as an advanced society in 17th century 39–40; butter extraction from cocoa 167; cacao transported to Venezuela by Dutch 79; ‘cashing out’ on the home 428; and coffee 79, 87, 164, 164; consumer culture 53–8, 56; credit 424, 425; cultural state support 547; Delftware 88; domestic interior at centre stage 108; Dutch housewives’ organization 250; Dutch National Bank 563; Dutch Republic 4, 10, 54–8; elderly people 507, 508, 511; and the Englightement 96; fair trade 562, 564, 566, 568, 574–5, 577; farmers 54, 55, 75; flow of goods and slaves in colonies (1770) 82–3; herring trade control 26; home ownership 236, 245, 428; household waste 1980–2005 643; income share of the rich 436, 437; increase in possessions during 17th and 18th centuries 23; industriousness 97; legacy in Ceylon 146; middle classes 117; mopeds 311; over-indebtedness 431; price controls 27; radio 265; reading habits 354; recycling 644; savings 420; shop opening hours 481; smuggling of tobacco through Dutch ports 162; social spending 539; supermarkets 349; townhouses 55–7; travelling cinemas 212; urban density 93; waste 632, 644; working hours 449, 450; youth running wild 310–11 New Book of Chinese Design 89 New Consumer 567 New Deal 274, 285, 286–7, 288, 389, 413, 524, 529, 543 New Help 107–8 New Labour 548 New Look 200 New World 24, 25, 64, 78, 80, 84, 599 see also Latin America; New England 111, 177 New York 179, 186–7, 208, 217, 239, 248, 323, 503, 505, 655; Barnum’s Hippodrome 609; Broadway 212; cinemas 212, 214–15; Columbia radio research project 266; Consumers’ League 156; Cowperthwaite and Sons 410; department stores 192, 202; Italian immigrants 608; Italian migrant food culture 599; Macy’s 295; waste in NYC 305, 624–6, 625, 630, 631, 632, 636, 642; water use 185, 188 New Zealand 429, 463, 466, 509, 537, 557 Newark, New Jersey 186, 187, 187, 188 Newcomen, Thomas 72 Nicaragua 78, 80, 172 Niccoli, Niccolò 31 Nietzsche, Friedrich 216, 442, 568 Nigeria 124, 131, 591, 592, 593, 594, 652; Pentecostalism 613, 614, 615 Nike 567 Nimby-ism 669 nitrate 170 nitrogen cycle 2 Nivea 291 Nixon, Francis 66 Nixon, Richard 329, 544 nobility see aristocrats/gentry NOOR 620 North Korea 607 Norway 338, 339, 354, 457, 567; fair trade 566; free time activities of men and women aged 20 to 74 (1998–2002) 458–9; household waste 1980–2005 643; people with holiday homes 655; solo living 654; Sunday restrictions 478 nostalgia 219, 288, 304, 352, 377, 384, 485 ‘Not in My Back Yard’ (Nimby-ism) 669 Nottingham 657 novelty 53, 60, 71, 88, 97–8, 114, 293, 439, 678 see also innovation; Benjamin on 198; charity shops and the desire for 657; consumer’s role as creator of 463; coupled with familiarity 321; credit and the cult of 405; Hume on the soul and 102; and the ‘kid in the candy store’ syndrome 443; and preservation of the old 661; as product of East–West exchange 88; products 64–6, 80, 189, 350; psychological effect of 102; pursuit of 4, 49, 51, 330, 405, 496, 623, 661; and risk 387 Nuremberg 38, 39, 40, 41 Oakland, California 309 Obermaier, Uschi 323 objectivity 95–6, 197 obsolescence, inbuilt 258 Odessa 295–6 Odna (Alone) 292–3 Ohayo (Good Morning, film) 365 oil: boom 590; crisis (1973) 324, 330, 638, 639; global trade in 683; wasting 622; wealth 607 old people’s homes 504, 505, 506, 508, 510, 511 Oldenberg, Karl 153 Older American Act 501 Olearius, Adam 85 Oman 618 Ombudsmen 557–8, 559 Onitsha 131 Onyeani, Chika 135 opera 220, 263, 340, 437, 463, 466, 484, 546 opinion polling 319 opium 73, 110, 140, 142 Opobo 130 opulence see excess, extravagance and opulence organic food 581, 584–6, 605 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 12, 418, 449, 683, 684, 687; social spending 12, 537, 539 Orlova, Lubov 293 Ortega y Gasset, José 284 Orthodox Church 607 Osaka Watch Company 359 ovens see cookers overcrowding 217 Owen, David 556 Owusu Ansa, Albert 131 Owusu Ansa, John 131 Oxfam 574, 639 Oxford 86, 155, 639 Ozark 265 Pachinko 473 packaging 622, 635–6, 642, 652 Packard, Vance 302, 304, 316, 622–3, 657 pagan cults 613 paintings/pictures 32, 51, 60, 61, 270; galleries 30, 194; and lithography 226; reproductions in the home 226 Pakistan 593, 670; exodus of Pakistanis from East Africa to Britain with decolonization 596 Palencia 77 palm-oil trade 130 Panama 541; Canal 524 Pandolfini, Jacopo di Giannozzo 29 panoramas, cinematic 213 Paoli, Gino 352 paper 29; furniture and dresses 636; waste and recycling see waste: paper Paris 70, 86, 89, 90, 93, 155, 156, 165, 174, 175, 180, 191; antiques boom 227; Barbedienne’s foundry 225–6; blousons noir 498; Bon Marché 191, 192; boulevards and the price of new homes 243; bourgeoisie 225–6, 250, 374; car-free Sundays 470; as centre of fashion network 204; Commune 537; Compagnie Parisienne de l’Air Comprimé 183; department stores 200, 410, 685; dioramas 213; Dufayel 200, 410; Exposition Universelle (1867) 193; flâneurs 441; functionalism 250; gas lighting 181; Haussman’s rebuilding of 198, 204; Hippodrome 213; housing 243, 248; packaging waste 635–6; Printemps 192; Salon des Arts Ménagers 250; shoppers’ leagues 549–50; shopping galleries 192; Sorbonne 321; toilets 189; Union des Consommateurs de Gaz Parisien 183; waste 629; water supply 178, 182; youth riots 310 parks 154, 183, 219, 305, 473, 475, 550; amusement 219, 220; national 281; state 544 parlours 225 Parsis 139, 142 Pasolini, Pier Paolo 7, 324 pasta 598, 599 paternalism 134, 306, 369, 393, 415, 423, 433, 530, 535, 567, 688; Stalinist 294 Paterson, John 145 Pathé 263 Patients’ Association 555, 556 Patients’ Charter (UK) 556 patriotic consumers 238 patronage 59, 130, 139 Patten, Simon 153–4 Paul, apostle 405 Paul VI 576 pawnshops/pawnbrokers 71, 113, 114, 361, 406, 408, 409, 410 Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) 648 Pear’s soap 171 peasants 24, 27, 69, 153; African 129; Asian 46, 47, 49, 73, 137, 359–60, 361–2, 366, 383; Calabrian 598; English 58; Russian 277 pedlars 203, 205, 359 peer groups 312 Peirce, C.


The Rough Guide to Brazil by Rough Guides

Airbnb, Albert Einstein, Anthropocene, anti-communist, bike sharing, car-free, clean water, Day of the Dead, digital nomad, haute cuisine, income inequality, James Watt: steam engine, land tenure, mass immigration, Murano, Venice glass, Scientific racism, sexual politics, spice trade, Stephen Fry, sustainable-tourism, trade route, trickle-down economics, union organizing, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban sprawl, éminence grise

Paranaguá Bay can be visited as a day-trip, but its islands and colonial towns could also easily take up a week or more of your time – especially the laidback, car-free, beach and surf centre of Ilha do Mel. The Serra Verde Express between Curitiba and Morretes is one of South America’s most thrilling train rides. iStock PARQUE NACIONAL DOS APARADOS DA SERRA Highlights Museu Oscar Niemeyer Stunning contemporary art museum designed by the Brazilian master, located in Curitiba, dynamic capital of Paraná. Serra Verde Express One of South America’s most scintillating train rides, snaking through the Mata Atlântica. Ilha do Mel Brazil’s chilled out island paradise, blissfully undeveloped and car-free. Iguaçu Falls No trip to the South is complete without a visit to these awe-inspiring waterfalls.


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MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams

"World Economic Forum" Davos, accounting loophole / creative accounting, airport security, Andrew Keen, augmented reality, Ayatollah Khomeini, barriers to entry, Ben Horowitz, bioinformatics, blood diamond, Bretton Woods, business climate, business process, buy and hold, car-free, carbon footprint, carbon tax, Charles Lindbergh, citizen journalism, Clayton Christensen, clean water, Climategate, Climatic Research Unit, cloud computing, collaborative editing, collapse of Lehman Brothers, collateralized debt obligation, colonial rule, commoditize, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, creative destruction, crowdsourcing, death of newspapers, demographic transition, digital capitalism, digital divide, disruptive innovation, distributed generation, do well by doing good, don't be evil, en.wikipedia.org, energy security, energy transition, Evgeny Morozov, Exxon Valdez, failed state, fault tolerance, financial innovation, Galaxy Zoo, game design, global village, Google Earth, Hans Rosling, hive mind, Home mortgage interest deduction, information asymmetry, interchangeable parts, Internet of things, invention of movable type, Isaac Newton, James Watt: steam engine, Jaron Lanier, jimmy wales, Joseph Schumpeter, Julian Assange, Kevin Kelly, Kickstarter, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, machine readable, Marc Andreessen, Marshall McLuhan, mass immigration, medical bankruptcy, megacity, military-industrial complex, mortgage tax deduction, Netflix Prize, new economy, Nicholas Carr, ocean acidification, off-the-grid, oil shock, old-boy network, online collectivism, open borders, open economy, pattern recognition, peer-to-peer lending, personalized medicine, radical decentralization, Ray Kurzweil, RFID, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Rubik’s Cube, scientific mainstream, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, Skype, smart grid, smart meter, social graph, social web, software patent, Steve Jobs, synthetic biology, systems thinking, text mining, the long tail, the scientific method, The Wisdom of Crowds, transaction costs, transfer pricing, University of East Anglia, urban sprawl, value at risk, WikiLeaks, X Prize, Yochai Benkler, young professional, Zipcar

The 1970s oil shock hit Denmark harder than many of its European neighbors. At the time, every last drop of oil was imported. When prices rose dramatically the entire economy was crushed. Anne Højer Simonsen of the Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy recalls the sacrifices. “When I was a child, each Sunday, you could not ride on the highways. There were car-free Sundays. Only emergency vehicles rode. It was terrible. It was very cold all winter. We couldn’t have more than sixteen or seventeen degrees [Celsius] in our living rooms.” It took an entire decade for Denmark to recover. But the experience created a burning platform that unleashed an unstoppable drive toward self-sufficiency.


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C++ Concurrency in Action: Practical Multithreading by Anthony Williams

car-free, finite state, functional programming, SETI@home

Since it would therefore be rather expensive and impractical for each employee to have a company car, companies often offer a car pool instead; they have a limited number of cars that are available to all employees. When an employee needs to make an off-site trip, they book one of the pool cars for the appropriate time and return it for others to use when they return to the office. If there are no pool cars free on a given day, the employee will have to reschedule their trip for a subsequent date. A thread pool is a similar idea, except that threads are being shared rather than cars. On most systems, it’s impractical to have a separate thread for every task that can potentially be done in parallel with other tasks, but you’d still like to take advantage of the available concurrency where possible.


Fodor's Venice and Northern Italy by Fodor's

car-free, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, Murano, Venice glass, trade route, urban planning, young professional

On the upside, Italy’s roads are very well maintained. Note that wearing a seat belt and having your lights on at all times are required by law. Bear in mind that a vehicle in Italian cities is almost always a liability, but outside of the cities it’s often crucial. An effective strategy is to start and end your Italian itinerary in major cities, car-free, and to pick up wheels for countryside touring in between. Typical Travel Times Hours by Car Hours by Train Venice–Milan 3:30 2:35 Venice–Turin 5:00 4:20 Venice–Genoa 4:45 4:30 Venice–Como 4:00 3:30 Venice–Bolzano 3:15 3:10 Milan–Turin 2:00 2:00 Milan–Genoa 2:00 1:45 Milan–Verona 1:45 1:20 Genoa–Turin 2:00 2:00 Milan–Bolzano 3:00 3:30 Genoa–Como 2:45 3:20 Restaurants: The Basics A full meal in Italy has traditionally consisted of five courses, and every menu you encounter will still be organized along some version of this five-course plan: First up is the antipasto (appetizer), often consisting of cured meats or marinated vegetables.


Lonely Planet Nicaragua (Travel Guide) by Lonely Planet, Alex Egerton, Greg Benchwick

agricultural Revolution, British Empire, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, clean water, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Day of the Dead, land reform, liberation theology, Multics, off grid, off-the-grid, place-making, race to the bottom, Ralph Nader, Ronald Reagan, sustainable-tourism, the long tail, traveling salesman

Little Corn, a tiny, jungled, carless jewel, actually attracts more tourists, with most visitors heading for funky, creative beachside cabañas that are the perfect setting for Robinson Crusoe 2.0. The dive sites are more diverse on Little Corn, the jungle is thick and the food is outrageously good, which explains why so many ignore the larger island and indulge in car-free tranquility. But there is a catch. During high season there can be more foreigners than locals. History Christopher Columbus breezed through the Corn Islands in 1502, but it wasn’t until 1660, when a French pirate by the name of Jean-David Nau arrived, that relations with the indigenous Kukras were cultivated.


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Berlin by Andrea Schulte-Peevers

Albert Einstein, Berlin Wall, biodiversity loss, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Google Earth, indoor plumbing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kickstarter, low cost airline, Prenzlauer Berg, retail therapy, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan: Tear down this wall, Skype, starchitect, trade route, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban renewal

The Scheunenviertel’s most visible anchor is the Hackescher Markt area, where the tangle of beautifully restored courtyards called Hackesche Höfe is a major tourist magnet. The bars and cafés beneath the ornately decorated red-brick arches of the Hackescher Markt S-Bahn station are also a favourite spot for cooling one’s heels. In summer, tables spill out onto the car-free Neue Promenade, creating light-hearted Italian piazza flair, complete with flickering torches illuminating breezy palm trees. North of here, Oranienburger Strasse is a main drag that in the daytime lures punters to its amazing Moorish-domed Neue Synagogue and the post-atomic artists’ squat house Kunsthaus Tacheles.


Frommer's San Diego 2011 by Mark Hiss

airport security, California gold rush, car-free, Charles Lindbergh, Day of the Dead, desegregation, Donald Trump, East Village, El Camino Real, gentrification, glass ceiling, machine readable, New Journalism, Norman Mailer, Skype, South of Market, San Francisco, sustainable-tourism, transcontinental railway, urban renewal, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration

DOWNTOWN, THE GASLAMP & LITTLE ITALY San Diego’s downtown is an excellent place for leisure travelers to stay. The nightlife and dining in the Gaslamp Quarter and shopping at Horton Plaza are close at hand; Balboa Park, Hillcrest, Old Town, and Coronado are less than 10 minutes away by car; and beaches aren’t much farther. It’s also the city’s public transportation hub, and thus very convenient for car-free visitors. Many downtown hotels seem designed for the expense-account crowd, but there are more moderately priced choices. There’s the modern Bristol Hotel, 1055 First Ave. (& 800/662-4477 or 619/232-6141; www.thebristolsandiego.com), adjacent to the Gaslamp Quarter. In the budget category, you can’t beat the 259-room 500 West, 500 W.


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The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions by Greta Thunberg

"World Economic Forum" Davos, accounting loophole / creative accounting, air freight, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anthropocene, basic income, Bernie Sanders, biodiversity loss, BIPOC, bitcoin, British Empire, car-free, carbon credits, carbon footprint, carbon tax, circular economy, clean water, cognitive dissonance, coronavirus, COVID-19, David Attenborough, decarbonisation, degrowth, disinformation, energy transition, Extinction Rebellion, Food sovereignty, global pandemic, global supply chain, Global Witness, green new deal, green transition, Greta Thunberg, housing crisis, Indoor air pollution, informal economy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invisible hand, Jeff Bezos, land tenure, late capitalism, lockdown, mass immigration, megacity, meta-analysis, microplastics / micro fibres, military-industrial complex, Naomi Klein, negative emissions, ocean acidification, offshore financial centre, oil shale / tar sands, out of africa, phenotype, planetary scale, planned obsolescence, retail therapy, rewilding, social distancing, supervolcano, tech billionaire, the built environment, Thorstein Veblen, TikTok, Torches of Freedom, Tragedy of the Commons, universal basic income, urban sprawl, zoonotic diseases

To be sure, no single person or family, no matter how rapacious and wasteful their lifestyle, is responsible for more than a minuscule share of the excess carbon in the atmosphere or the waste in our landfills or the plastic in our oceans. No household changing its ways will make a measurable difference in terms of combating climate change, either. A wealthy, urban family going vegan, flight-free, and car-free might reduce its carbon emissions by a few tonnes a year, when the world’s problems are measured in the tens of billions of tonnes. Moreover, families’ carbon budgets and broader environmental impact are in no small part determined by the built environment they live in, the economy they work in and the policy choices made for them by their representatives.


Lonely Planet Colombia (Travel Guide) by Lonely Planet, Alex Egerton, Tom Masters, Kevin Raub

airport security, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, colonial rule, Columbian Exchange, Downton Abbey, El Camino Real, Francisco Pizarro, friendly fire, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute couture, land reform, low cost airline, off-the-grid, race to the bottom, sustainable-tourism, urban sprawl

Best Places to Eat AEl Santo Angel AEl Cielo ATierras Amazónicas ALas Margaritas ASão Jorge Best Places to Stay AReserva Natural Palmarí AMalokas Napü AAmazon B&B AWaira Suites Hotel AMahatu Jungle Hostel Amazon Basin Highlights 1 Spend a few days observing abundant wildlife at the excellent Reserva Natural Palmarí. 2 Unwind in the car-free, sustainable and funky remote village of Puerto Nariño. 3 Spot pink and gray dolphins on the warm waters of the mighty Lago Tarapoto. 4 Be serenaded by parrots in the rainforest of Parque Nacional Natural (PNN) Amacayacu. 5 Slip silently into the jungle by canoe up the tributaries of the Río Yavarí. 6 Go beyond the lodges on a deep, multiday Amazon tour, where you'll really be welcomed to the jungle!


Lonely Planet Iceland (Travel Guide) by Lonely Planet, Carolyn Bain, Alexis Averbuck

Airbnb, banking crisis, car-free, carbon footprint, cashless society, centre right, DeepMind, European colonialism, Eyjafjallajökull, food miles, Kickstarter, low cost airline, megaproject, Mikhail Gorbachev, New Urbanism, post-work, presumed consent, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, undersea cable

The owner happily imparts local knowledge; check-in time (from 3pm) is strictly enforced. HI members get a discount of Ikr700 per person; linen hire is Ikr1250. City CampsiteCAMPGROUND ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; Þórunnarstræti; sites per person Ikr1100, plus Ikr100 lodging tax per site; hmid-Jun–mid-Sep) This central site has a washing machine, dining area and free showers, plus a car-free policy (except for loading and unloading). Note: no kitchen. Handily, it’s close to the swimming pool and a supermarket. Hamrar CampsiteCAMPGROUND (www.hamrar.is; sites per person Ikr1100, plus Ikr100 lodging tax per site; hmid-May–mid-Sep) This huge site, 1.5km south of town in a leafy setting in Kjarnaskógur woods, has newer facilities than the city campsite, and mountain views.


Frommer's San Francisco 2012 by Matthew Poole, Erika Lenkert, Kristin Luna

airport security, Albert Einstein, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Blue Bottle Coffee, California gold rush, car-free, centre right, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, El Camino Real, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, high-speed rail, Loma Prieta earthquake, machine readable, Mason jar, Maui Hawaii, McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit, off-the-grid, place-making, Port of Oakland, post-work, San Francisco homelessness, sensible shoes, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, Torches of Freedom, transcontinental railway, urban renewal, Works Progress Administration, young professional

Let’s hope the next Phyllis Diller—who was still struggling when she played a 2-week engagement here in the late 1950s—will catch her big break here, too. The Purple Onion. Continue north on Columbus Avenue and then turn right on Pacific Avenue. After you cross Montgomery Street, you’ll find brick-lined Osgood Place on the left. A registered historic landmark, it is one of the few quiet—and car-free—little alleyways left in the city. Stroll up Osgood and go left on Broadway to 1010 Montgomery St. (at Broadway). 8 1010 Montgomery St. This is where Allen Ginsberg lived when he wrote his legendary poem, “Howl,” first performed on October 13, 1955, in a converted auto-repair shop at the corner of Fillmore and Union streets.


Lonely Planet Andalucia: Chapter From Spain Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

bike sharing, British Empire, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, credit crunch, discovery of the americas, Francisco Pizarro, haute cuisine, Kickstarter, Skype, trade route, urban renewal

Driving Distances (km) Best Places to Eat »Oliver (Click here) »Ruta del Azafrán (Click here) »Bodegas Castañeda (Click here) »Baraka (Click here) Best Places to Stay »Hotel Posada del Toro (Click here) »Santa Isabel la Real (Click here) »Apartamentos Turisticos San Matías (Click here) Getting Around Buses connect even the tiniest villages with the city of Granada, but a car enables flexibility and some dramatic drives. Yet a car can be a liability in the city, with its gnarled mess of unsigned streets, many closed to all but taxis and buses. Ideally, plan your trip so you’re car-free for your Granada stay, or leave your car in a (costly) underground car park for the duration. Trains are of limited help – the only stops are Granada and Guadix. THREE PERFECT DAYS Day 1: Granada’s Islamic Heritage Start your sightseeing early, with a morning visit to the Moorish palaces of the Alhambra.


Sweden Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, clean water, G4S, Julian Assange, Kickstarter, low cost airline, mass immigration, retail therapy, ride hailing / ride sharing, Suez crisis 1956, trade route, urban planning, walkable city, white picket fence, WikiLeaks

Around Gothenburg Southern Archipelago %031 / Pop 5000 Gothenburg's archipelago is divided into two sections, northern and southern. The northern archipelago is more accessible – you can drive there – and therefore more developed. To get more of a taste of remote island life, head to the car-free paradise of the southern archipelago. Though it's easy and quick to reach from Gothenburg, it feels worlds away. There are nine major islands and numerous smaller ones. Brännö is the most popular for overnight stays. 8Getting There & Away Styrsöbolaget ( GOOGLE MAP ; %0771-41 43 00; www.styrsobolaget.se) runs an excellent 16-destination passenger-only ferry network.


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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

car-free, Ford Model T, the market place

They were silent, and gradually the skittering life of the ground, of holes and burrows, of the brush, began again; the gophers moved, and the rabbits crept to green things, the mice scampered over clods, and the winged hunters moved soundlessly overhead. Chapter 7 In the towns, on the edges of the towns, in fields, in vacant lots, the used-car yards, the wreckers’ yards, the garages with blazoned signs—Used Cars, Good Used Cars. Cheap transportation, three trailers. ’27 Ford, clean. Checked cars, guaranteed cars. Free radio. Car with 100 gallons of gas free. Come in and look. Used Cars. No overhead. A lot and a house large enough for a desk and chair and a blue book. Sheaf of contracts, dog-eared, held with paper clips, and a neat pile of unused contracts. Pen—keep it full, keep it working. A sale’s been lost ’cause a pen didn’t work.


The Simple Living Guide by Janet Luhrs

air freight, Albert Einstein, car-free, classic study, cognitive dissonance, Community Supported Agriculture, compound rate of return, do what you love, financial independence, follow your passion, Golden Gate Park, intentional community, job satisfaction, late fees, low interest rates, money market fund, music of the spheres, off-the-grid, passive income, Ralph Waldo Emerson, risk tolerance, telemarketer, the rule of 72, urban decay, urban renewal, Whole Earth Review

Council for International Educational Exchange lists volunteer opportunities throughout the world. 205 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017-5706 or call toll-free 1-888-COUNCIL or E-mail: info@ciee.org or visit Council’s Website, http://www.ciee.org Sierra Club Service Trips, 730 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, 1-415-923-5522 Volunteers for Peace, International Workcamps, 43 Tiffany Road, Belmont, VT 05730, 1-802-259-2759 Abromowitz, Les Active simple pleasures Addiction Research Foundation Adobe houses Advertising and consumption Ahern, Barbara, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 Air travel as air courier Airhitch consolidators creative routing digging for deals drive-away cars free upgrades getting bumped travel agents Albert, Susan Wittig Allowances for children Alternative Celebrations Catalogue American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) American Way of Life Need Not Be Hazardous to Your Health, The (Farquhar) Amigos program Andrews, Cecil Antieau, Clay Apartment gardens Arter, Gil Art of Living, The (Lebell) Aslett, Don, 9.1, 12.1 Assertiveness and tact Attachment Authentic life Bailey, Covert Barbanel, Linda Bartholomew, Greg, 2.1, 2.2 Bender, Sue Berger, Thomas Best Bargain Vacations in the U.S.A.


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The Rough Guide to Florence & the Best of Tuscany by Tim Jepson, Jonathan Buckley, Rough Guides

air freight, Bonfire of the Vanities, car-free, classic study, housing crisis, land reform, Nelson Mandela, plutocrats, sustainable-tourism, trade route, upwardly mobile, urban planning

A thoroughly reliable place for straightforward Tuscan food. The wine list – over a hundred choices – is good, too. A full lunch will cost around €30, dinner €10–15 more. Closed Wed. | San Gimignano San Gimignano isn’t famous for its food – there are too many visitors and too few locals to ensure high standards. However, the tables set out on the car-free squares and lanes, and the good local wines, make for pleasant dining. The recommended places below are all moderately priced. Good bars are similarly thin on the ground, though there are one or two on each of the main piazzas that are decent enough places from where to watch the world go by. The little but extraordinarily popular A Gelateria di Piazza, at Piazza della Cisterna 4 (closed mid-Nov to mid-Feb), has arguably the best ice cream in Tuscany.


Lonely Planet London by Lonely Planet

Boris Johnson, British Empire, car-free, carbon footprint, centre right, Charles Babbage, congestion charging, Crossrail, death from overwork, discovery of the americas, Dr. Strangelove, East Village, Easter island, Edward Jenner, Etonian, financial independence, gentrification, haute couture, haute cuisine, Isaac Newton, John Snow's cholera map, low cost airline, Mahatma Gandhi, market design, place-making, post-work, Russell Brand, Skype, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, urban renewal, Winter of Discontent

East London Kid Picks V&A Museum of Childhood Active and gregarious fun in the numerous play areas. See Click here. Hackney City Farm Best combined with a nearby market (Columbia Rd or Broadway Market) for teens. See www.hackneycityfarm.co.uk. Mudchute City Farm The biggest city farm in town. See Click here. South London Kid Picks Southbank Centre Car free and full of fun, music events at the Royal Festival Hall (Click here) for teens. Battersea Park Leafy and with its own zoo. See Click here. Horniman Museum Has an array of free-to-touch objects, such as puppets and masks, and interactive exhibits in the Nature Base. The Music Gallery is a true highlight, with 1,600 instruments on display; not only can the little ones listen to the instruments’ sounds, they can also bash on a selection in the Hands On room.


Caribbean Islands by Lonely Planet

Bartolomé de las Casas, big-box store, British Empire, buttonwood tree, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, clean water, colonial rule, cuban missile crisis, discovery of the americas, Donald Trump, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, income inequality, intermodal, jitney, Kickstarter, machine readable, microcredit, off-the-grid, offshore financial centre, place-making, retail therapy, rolling blackouts, Ronald Reagan, Rubik’s Cube, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, sustainable-tourism, urban planning, urban sprawl, white picket fence

Getting There & Around Air Flights from Grand Cayman and Little Cayman to Cayman Brac’s Gerrard Smith International Airport are offered daily by Cayman Airways Express . Bicycle Bikes may be rented or borrowed from the resorts. Car Renting a car (about US$40 to US$60 per day) is the best way to enjoy the island. B&S Motor Ventures Ltd ( 948-1646; www.bandsmv.com) Hires scooters, 4WDs and bikes as well as cars; free delivery. CB Rent-A-Car ( 948-2329; www.cbrentacar.com; Gerrard Smith International Airport) Right across from the terminal. Hitchhiking There’s no public transportation on Cayman Brac, but the negligible crime rate – and the amiability of the locals – makes hitchhiking safe and easy. The mere sight of a visitor marching down the roadway often results in ride offers by passing motorists.

Imposing and indomitable, the castle is ringed by an impressive moat and today shelters the Museo de Navegación ( admission CUC$2; 9am-6pm) , which opened in 2008 and displays interesting exposés on the history of the fort, the old town and its connections with the erstwhile Spanish empire. Look out for the huge scale model of the Santíssima Trinidad galleon. Calle Mercaderes HISTORIC STREET Cobbled, car-free Calle Mercaderes has been extensively restored by the City Historian’s Office and offers an almost complete replication of its splendid 18th-century high-water mark. Interspersed with the museums, shops and restaurants are some real-life working social projects. Many of the myriad museums are free, including the Maqueta de La Habana Vieja ( Mercaderes No 114; admission unguided/guided CUC$1/2; 9am-6pm) , a 1:500 scale model of Habana Vieja complete with an authentic soundtrack meant to replicate a day in the life of the city.


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Lonely Planet Norway (Travel Guide) by Lonely Planet, Donna Wheeler

car-free, carbon credits, carbon footprint, centre right, company town, energy security, high-speed rail, illegal immigration, low cost airline, mass immigration, Mikhail Gorbachev, North Sea oil, place-making, Skype, sustainable-tourism, trade route, urban renewal

Historic Buildings & Neighbourhoods From Gamle Bybro (Old Town Bridge) there's a superb view of the Bryggen, colourful 18th- and 19th-century riverfront warehouses similar to their better-known counterparts in Bergen. To the east, the one-time working-class neighbourhoods of Møllenberg and Bakklandet are now gentrified latte-land, all cobbles, car-free alleys, trim houses in pastel shades and gardens scarcely bigger than a towel that burst with flowers. Here, within old warehouses and renovated workers' housing, are some of the city's most colourful places to eat and drink. The cobblestone streets immediately west of the centre are also lined with mid-19th-century wooden buildings, notably the octagonal 1705 timber church, Hospitalkirken ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; Hospitalsløkka 2-4), in the hospital grounds.


Lonely Planet Iceland by Lonely Planet

Airbnb, banking crisis, capital controls, car-free, carbon footprint, cashless society, centre right, DeepMind, European colonialism, Eyjafjallajökull, food miles, Kickstarter, low cost airline, Lyft, megaproject, Mikhail Gorbachev, New Urbanism, presumed consent, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft

HI members get a kr700 discount; linen can be hired. City CampsiteCAMPGROUND€ ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; Þórunnarstræti; sites per person kr1300, plus lodging tax per site kr100; hJun–mid-Sep) This central site is popular for its location, not its charm. It has a washing machine, small dining area and showers (kr300), plus a car-free policy (except for loading and unloading; campervans accepted). Note: no kitchen. Handily, it’s close to the swimming pool and a supermarket. Hamrar CampsiteCAMPGROUND€ ( GOOGLE MAP ; %461 2264; www.hamrar.is; sites per person kr1300, plus lodging tax per site kr100; hmid-May–mid-Oct) This huge site, 1.5km south of town in a leafy setting in Kjarnaskógur woods, has newer facilities than the city campsite, and mountain views.


The Rough Guide to Norway by Phil Lee

banking crisis, bike sharing, car-free, centre right, company town, Easter island, glass ceiling, Nelson Mandela, North Sea oil, out of africa, place-making, sensible shoes, sustainable-tourism, three-masted sailing ship, trade route, walkable city, white picket fence

All the rooms here are decorated in crisp, modern style and most have harbour views. 1600kr Røvær Vandrerhjem Røvær, 10km to the west of Haugesund 52 71 80 35, vandrerhjem.no. For something more distinctive than Haugesund’s chain hotels, take the ferry to the green, fairly flat and car-free little island of Røvær ( visitrovar.no), where there’s a no-frills HI hostel in a distinctive timber building metres from the ferry dock, as well as easy rambling and a beach or two. Passenger ferries leave from Haugesund’s harbourfront (6–7 daily; 25min; 50kr each way) and dock a short walk from the main village.


Fodor's Costa Rica 2012 by Fodor's

Berlin Wall, buttonwood tree, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, David Attenborough, GPS: selective availability, haute cuisine, off-the-grid, Pepto Bismol, place-making, restrictive zoning, satellite internet, sustainable-tourism, the long tail, urban renewal, urban sprawl

To keep down the dust, the road is periodically spread with an industrial mixture of molasses, which accounts for the stickiness and the lovely sweet smell. You can walk along the beach, at low tide, all the way from Tamarindo Beach, but be careful not to get caught on the headland rocks as the tide comes in. Most car-free visitors get picked up from Tamarindo by their hotels. Or you can take a taxi. Previous Map | Next Map | Costa Rica Maps Outdoor Activities in Playa Langosta Tour operators in Tamarindo, just a few miles north, offer activities in the Playa Langosta area. Where to Eat in Playa Langosta Playa Langosta Beach Club. $$$ | FRENCH | Looking for romance with spectacular food that matches the ambience?


Lonely Planet Eastern Europe by Lonely Planet, Mark Baker, Tamara Sheward, Anita Isalska, Hugh McNaughtan, Lorna Parkes, Greg Bloom, Marc Di Duca, Peter Dragicevich, Tom Masters, Leonid Ragozin, Tim Richards, Simon Richmond

Albert Einstein, Berlin Wall, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, crowdsourcing, Day of the Dead, Defenestration of Prague, Fall of the Berlin Wall, flag carrier, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, low cost airline, mass immigration, pre–internet, Steve Jobs, the High Line, Transnistria, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl

Don't miss the small collection of communist statues in storage behind the building, including two rarely seen statues of Uncle Joe Stalin himself. Sheshi SkënderbejSQUARE (Skanderbeg Sq; MAP GOOGLE MAP ) Sheshi Skënderbej is the best place to start witnessing Tirana's daily goings-on. Until it was pulled down by an angry mob in 1991, a 10m-high bronze statue of Enver Hoxha stood here, watching over a mainly car-free square. Now only the equestrian statue of Skanderbeg remains, and the 'square' – once Tirana's most popular meeting point in the decades where 99% of people were forced to get around on foot – is now a huge traffic roundabout. Et'hem Bey MosqueMOSQUE ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; Sheshi Skënderbej; h8am-11am) To one side of Sheshi Skënderbej, the 1789–1823 Et'hem Bey Mosque was spared destruction during the atheism campaign of the late 1960s because of its status as a cultural monument.


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1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, Updated Ed. by Patricia Schultz

Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card, Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Boeing 747, Bretton Woods, Burning Man, California gold rush, car-free, Charles Lindbergh, Columbine, company town, Cornelius Vanderbilt, cotton gin, country house hotel, David Sedaris, Day of the Dead, Donald Trump, East Village, El Camino Real, estate planning, Ford Model T, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Guggenheim Bilbao, Haight Ashbury, haute cuisine, indoor plumbing, interchangeable parts, Mars Rover, Mason jar, Maui Hawaii, Mikhail Gorbachev, Murano, Venice glass, Neil Armstrong, Nelson Mandela, new economy, New Urbanism, Norman Mailer, out of africa, Pepto Bismol, place-making, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Saturday Night Live, scientific management, sexual politics, South of Market, San Francisco, Suez canal 1869, The Chicago School, three-masted sailing ship, transcontinental railway, traveling salesman, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, wage slave, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration, Yogi Berra, éminence grise

Footpaths, bicycle trails, and kayak and canoe routes crisscross the area, or you can visit by car along Wildlife Drive. If you’re not feeling detached enough from the mainland and its everyday demands, visit Captiva and Sanibel’s three most interesting neighbor islands, located in Pine Island Sound, all of them car-free and accessible only by boat. Cayo Costa State Park is an uninhabited barefoot Eden with deserted beaches whose shelling is arguably the best around. Cabbage Key, a 100-acre, down-home, real-life Margaritaville, is said to have inspired Jimmy Buffett’s song “Cheeseburger in Paradise.” At the other end of the spectrum, Gatsbyesque Useppa Island is a privately owned club that welcomes overnighters (as well as day-trippers who come for excellent seafood lunches) at its genteel Collier Inn, where Teddy Roosevelt used to vacation with his tarpon-fishing friends.

WHERE: Golden Gate Park is loosely bounded on the east by Stanyan St., on the north by Fulton Ave., on the west by the Great Highway, and to the south by Lincoln Way. Park info: www.sfgate.com/traveler/guide/sf/neighborhoods/ggpark.shtml. GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE: www.goldengatebridge.org. BEST TIMES: early spring for cherry blossoms in Japanese Tea Garden; Sun for car-free wandering; weekdays for less crowded visits to park museums and Japanese Tea Garden. Foodie Paradise on the Waterfront THE SAN FRANCISCO FERRY BUILDING San Francisco, California The crossroads of all things delicious, the historic San Francisco Ferry Building is a place to congregate and worship the region’s culinary delights at shops, restaurants, and 200 outdoor market stalls that make up the country’s finest farmers market.


The Rough Guide to New York City by Martin Dunford

Anton Chekhov, Berlin Wall, Bonfire of the Vanities, Buckminster Fuller, buttonwood tree, car-free, Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, clean water, colonial exploitation, colonial rule, congestion pricing, Cornelius Vanderbilt, David Sedaris, desegregation, Donald Trump, East Village, Edward Thorp, Elisha Otis, Exxon Valdez, Frank Gehry, General Motors Futurama, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, illegal immigration, Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford, machine readable, market bubble, Michael Milken, Multics, Norman Mailer, paper trading, post-work, rent stabilization, retail therapy, Saturday Night Live, subprime mortgage crisis, sustainable-tourism, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the High Line, transcontinental railway, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, white flight, Yogi Berra, young professional

The first two digits on the post indicate the number of the nearest cross street, while the last two show whether you’re nearer the east side (odd numbers) or west side (even). You can pick up free maps at any of the Visitor Centers (see box, p.152) or two dozen freestanding unmanned kiosks throughout the park. Car access to the park’s drives is severely limited outside rush hours. Even if you’re visiting during a car-free period, you should still keep a watchful eye: crossing the road amid the hordes of goggled and headphoned rollerbladers, cyclists, and joggers can be trying – just be patient. Since there are no bus routes in the park, most people either walk or don rollerblades and glide there. Other options include renting a bicycle from the Loeb Boathouse (see p.156) or Metro Bicycles (1311 Lexington Ave T212/427-4450, Wwww.metrobicycles.com; ask about their other shops, since another may be closer to you).


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USA's Best Trips by Sara Benson

Albert Einstein, California gold rush, car-free, carbon footprint, cotton gin, Day of the Dead, desegregation, diversified portfolio, Donald Trump, Donner party, East Village, Frank Gehry, gentrification, glass ceiling, Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury, haute couture, haute cuisine, if you build it, they will come, indoor plumbing, Kickstarter, lateral thinking, McMansion, mega-rich, New Urbanism, off-the-grid, Ralph Waldo Emerson, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, side project, Silicon Valley, the High Line, transcontinental railway, trickle-down economics, urban renewal, urban sprawl, white flight, white picket fence, Works Progress Administration

Tables overlook atmospheric Fishtown and its weather-beaten shacks-cum-shops. To meet the folks who put the food on your plate, sign up with Learn Great Foods and tour local farms, fisheries and vineyards; some jaunts include alfresco dinner among the greens. * * * Several islands float off Michigan’s shore. Car-free Mackinac Island (www.mackinacisland.org) is the most touristed; park and take a ferry from Mackinaw City. For a quieter alternative, sail to Beaver Island (www.beaverisland.org), an Irish-influenced enclave of 600 people; ferries depart from downtown Charlevoix. South Manitou Island (www.leelanau.com/manitou), with boats leaving from Leland, is another wilderness winner


Fodor's Costa Rica 2013 by Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.

airport security, Berlin Wall, buttonwood tree, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, David Attenborough, glass ceiling, GPS: selective availability, haute cuisine, off-the-grid, Pepto Bismol, place-making, restrictive zoning, satellite internet, sustainable-tourism, the long tail, urban sprawl

To keep down the dust, the road is periodically spread with an industrial mixture of molasses, which accounts for the stickiness and the lovely sweet smell. You can walk along the beach, at low tide, all the way from Tamarindo Beach, but be careful not to get caught on the headland rocks as the tide comes in. Most car-free visitors get picked up from Tamarindo by their hotels. Or you can take a taxi. OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES Tour operators in Tamarindo, just a few miles north, offer activities in the Playa Langosta area. WHERE TO EAT IN PLAYA LANGOSTA Playa Langosta Beach Club. $$$ | FRENCH | Looking for romance with spectacular food that matches the ambience?


The Rough Guide to New York City by Rough Guides

3D printing, Airbnb, Bear Stearns, Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, bike sharing, Blue Bottle Coffee, Bonfire of the Vanities, Broken windows theory, Buckminster Fuller, buttonwood tree, car-free, centre right, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, clean water, collateralized debt obligation, colonial rule, congestion pricing, Cornelius Vanderbilt, crack epidemic, David Sedaris, Donald Trump, Downton Abbey, East Village, Edward Thorp, Elisha Otis, Exxon Valdez, Frank Gehry, General Motors Futurama, gentrification, glass ceiling, greed is good, haute couture, haute cuisine, Howard Zinn, illegal immigration, index fund, it's over 9,000, Jane Jacobs, junk bonds, Kickstarter, Lewis Mumford, Lyft, machine readable, Nelson Mandela, Norman Mailer, paper trading, Ponzi scheme, post-work, pre–internet, rent stabilization, ride hailing / ride sharing, Saturday Night Live, Scaled Composites, starchitect, subprime mortgage crisis, sustainable-tourism, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the High Line, transcontinental railway, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, uber lyft, upwardly mobile, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, white flight, Works Progress Administration, Yogi Berra, young professional

Organized walking tours are available from a number of sources, including the Urban Park Rangers and the visitor centres, but almost any stroll, formal or informal, will invariably lead to something interesting. cycling To make their way around from place to place, people typically either walk (there are no bus routes within the park) or don rollerblades and glide there. Other options include renting a bike – West Drive, East Drive and the 72nd Street Cross Drive all have specified car-free hours, allowing you to create various loops around the park in relative freedom. All bicycle rental shops require a credit card or refundable cash deposit. Danny’s Cycles 1690 Second Ave, between 87th and 88th sts 212 722 2201, dannyscycles.com. East of the park (and with an Upper West Side location too, among others), Danny’s Cycles offer good hourly rates, at $10–15/hr ($40–60/day).


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Lonely Planet Morocco (Travel Guide) by Lonely Planet, Paul Clammer, Paula Hardy

air freight, Airbnb, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, clean water, Day of the Dead, Dr. Strangelove, illegal immigration, low cost airline, Multics, Nelson Mandela, Norman Mailer, off-the-grid, place-making, Skype, spice trade, sustainable-tourism, trade route, urban planning, urban sprawl, women in the workforce, working poor, young professional

If You Like… Medinas If you pause for a moment in the medina, stepping out of the stream of shoppers, you can watch Morocco’s very essence flash by. These ancient, crowded quarters – with winding lanes, dead ends, riad hotels, piles of spices, traders, tea drinkers, and a sensory assault around every corner – offer a strong dose of Morocco’s famous Maghrebi mystique. Fez The planet’s largest living Islamic medieval city and its biggest car-free urban environment, with donkeys trekking to tanneries in the leather district. (Click here) Marrakesh Exuberant Marrakshis course between souqs (markets), palaces and the Djemaa el-Fna within the medina’s 19km of ramparts. (Click here) Tangier Hop off the ferry for a fitting introduction to North Africa in this gem of a medina, contained by the walls of a 15th-century Portuguese fortress.


Frommer's Israel by Robert Ullian

airport security, British Empire, car-free, Chuck Templeton: OpenTable:, East Village, Easter island, gentrification, haute cuisine, Khartoum Gordon, mass immigration, Maui Hawaii, Mount Scopus, place-making, planned obsolescence, Silicon Valley, Skype, Suez crisis 1956, sustainable-tourism, trade route, urban planning, urban sprawl, Yom Kippur War

Jewish Home Swap (www.jewishhomeswap.com) is a free service that gives people an opportunity to save on vacation costs by exchanging their homes with other people. The emphasis here is on homes with kosher kitchens and locations close to Jewish religious services. THE OLD CITY The advantage to staying in the Old City is that you feel the rhythms and hear the sounds of this extraordinary (and largely car-free) place—the calls to prayer from the minarets, the medley of bells from the city’s ancient churches. You’ll watch the bazaars come to life in the morning and slowly close down for the night; you’ll catch glimpses of street life that a visitor based in the New City would never see. You won’t come across any high-rise (or even low-rise) luxury palaces in the Old City, just a few inexpensive to moderately priced hotels, hospices, and hostels.


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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky

autism spectrum disorder, autonomous vehicles, behavioural economics, Bernie Madoff, biofilm, blood diamond, British Empire, Broken windows theory, Brownian motion, car-free, classic study, clean water, cognitive dissonance, cognitive load, corporate personhood, corporate social responsibility, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, delayed gratification, desegregation, different worldview, domesticated silver fox, double helix, Drosophila, Edward Snowden, en.wikipedia.org, epigenetics, Flynn Effect, framing effect, fudge factor, George Santayana, global pandemic, Golden arches theory, Great Leap Forward, hiring and firing, illegal immigration, impulse control, income inequality, intentional community, John von Neumann, Loma Prieta earthquake, long peace, longitudinal study, loss aversion, Mahatma Gandhi, meta-analysis, microaggression, mirror neurons, Mohammed Bouazizi, Monkeys Reject Unequal Pay, mouse model, mutually assured destruction, Nelson Mandela, Network effects, nocebo, out of africa, Peter Singer: altruism, phenotype, Philippa Foot, placebo effect, publication bias, RAND corporation, risk tolerance, Rosa Parks, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), self-driving car, Silicon Valley, Skinner box, social contagion, social distancing, social intelligence, Stanford marshmallow experiment, Stanford prison experiment, stem cell, Steven Pinker, strikebreaker, theory of mind, Tragedy of the Commons, transatlantic slave trade, traveling salesman, trickle-down economics, trolley problem, twin studies, ultimatum game, Walter Mischel, wikimedia commons, zero-sum game, zoonotic diseases

When a car is being dysfunctional and dangerous and we take it to a mechanic, this is not a dualistic situation where (a) if the mechanic discovers some broken widget causing the problem, we have a mechanistic explanation, but (b) if the mechanic can’t find anything wrong, we’re dealing with an evil car; sure, the mechanic can speculate on the source of the problem—maybe it’s the blueprint from which the car was built, maybe it was the building process, maybe the environment contains some unknown pollutant that somehow impairs function, maybe someday we’ll have sufficiently powerful techniques in the auto shop to spot some key molecule in the engine that is out of whack—but in the meantime we’ll consider this car to be evil. Car free will also equals “internal forces we do not understand yet.”*34 Many who are viscerally opposed to this view charge that it is dehumanizing to frame damaged humans as broken machines. But as a final, crucial point, doing that is a hell of a lot more humane than demonizing and sermonizing them as sinners.


Hawaii Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

Airbnb, back-to-the-land, big-box store, bike sharing, British Empire, California gold rush, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, Charles Lindbergh, company town, Easter island, Food sovereignty, haute cuisine, high-speed rail, James Watt: steam engine, Kula ring, land reform, Larry Ellison, machine readable, Maui Hawaii, off-the-grid, Peter Pan Syndrome, polynesian navigation, Silicon Valley, tech billionaire

Driving on Saddle Rd can cut travel time by about 15 minutes. 8Getting Around Bicycle Cycling is more recreation than transportation in Hilo. Mid-Pacific Wheels ( GOOGLE MAP ; %808-935-6211; www.midpacificwheelsllc.com; 1133-C Manono St; h9am-6pm Mon-Sat, 11am-5pm Sun) rents mountain and road bikes for $25 to $45 per day. Bus The Hele-On Bus covers much of Hilo, although service can be infrequent. Car Free parking is generally available. Downtown street parking is free for two hours; finding a spot is easy except during Saturday and Wednesday farmers markets. Taxi The approximate cab fare from the airport to downtown Hilo is $15. AA Marshall's TaxiTAXI (%808-936-2654) Puna The Polynesian word ‘mana’ is tough to translate.


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Lonely Planet Turkey (Travel Guide) by Lonely Planet, James Bainbridge, Brett Atkinson, Steve Fallon, Jessica Lee, Virginia Maxwell, Hugh McNaughtan, John Noble

British Empire, car-free, carbon footprint, country house hotel, Exxon Valdez, Kickstarter, megacity, Mustafa Suleyman, place-making, restrictive zoning, sensible shoes, sustainable-tourism, Thales and the olive presses, trade route, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, yield management, young professional

Last ferries leave Büyükada at 6.15pm and 8.20pm and Heybeliada at 6.30pm and 8.35pm (9.15pm and 10.15pm from Büyükada and 9.30pm and 10.30pm from June to mid-September). Turyol (%0212-251 4421; http://turyol.com) Operates small ferry services between three and five times per day from both Karaköy and Eminönü to Büyükada (₺6). 8Getting Around One of the wonderful things about the Princes' Islands is that they are car-free zones. The main forms of transport are motorised carts, bicycles and faytons (horse-drawn carriages). The name fayton comes from the mythical Phaeton, son of the sun god Helios. Heybeliada Heybeliada (Heybeli for short) is the prettiest island in the Adalar group, replete with ornate 19th-century timber villas and offering gorgeous sea views from myriad viewpoints.


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Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

car-free, complexity theory, disinformation, forensic accounting, gravity well, megacity, megastructure, orbital mechanics / astrodynamics, planetary scale, restrictive zoning, trade route, trickle-down economics, VTOL

Potted saplings could be sold in sealed display cases for botanical enthusiasts, but no one was ever going to reproduce the woodlands on another world. So the environmentalists didn’t want big construction machinery chopping down trees to put up the cable car posts, and chainsawing off branches to give the cars free passage through the elaborate canopy. After a decade of legal battles the operators won their permit, after proving a minimal-damage impact-assessment. What the environmentalists grudgingly accepted once the cable car was up and running was that the environmental damage was actually reduced. People who used to illicitly walk off the Crossquay and plunge through the jungle, breaking small branches and trampling new shoots underfoot to gain the raw experience now took the cable car.


Southeast Asia on a Shoestring Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

active transport: walking or cycling, airport security, Alfred Russel Wallace, anti-communist, British Empire, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, classic study, clean water, clockwatching, colonial rule, flag carrier, gentrification, Global Witness, Google Earth, Great Leap Forward, haute cuisine, indoor plumbing, Kickstarter, large denomination, low cost airline, Mason jar, megacity, period drama, restrictive zoning, retail therapy, Skype, South China Sea, spice trade, superstar cities, sustainable-tourism, the long tail, trade route, urban sprawl, white picket fence, women in the workforce

Four Weeks Tramp Malaysia & Beyond Touchdown in Kuala Lumpur, an easy city for international arrivals. Bus to the tranquil Cameron Highlands and its glossy green tea plantations. Follow the northern migration to Penang for street eats and Malaysian fusion culture. Detour to the beaches of Langkawi. Return to Georgetown and bus to Kota Bharu, the jump-off point for car-free, carefree ambience on Pulau Perhentian. Pick up the Jungle Railway to Taman Negara, an ancient, accessible wilderness. Return to Kuala Lumpur for a well-planned, well-funded tour of Malaysian Borneo. Fly to Kota Kinabalu, in Sabah, ascend Borneo’s highest peak Mt Kinabalu. Head east to Sepilok and its orang-utan sanctuary.


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The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget (Travel Guide eBook) by Rough Guides

Airbnb, Albert Einstein, Atahualpa, banking crisis, California gold rush, call centre, car-free, centre right, colonial rule, Colonization of Mars, company town, Day of the Dead, discovery of the americas, Easter island, Francisco Pizarro, garden city movement, gentrification, haute cuisine, illegal immigration, it's over 9,000, Kickstarter, mass immigration, Nelson Mandela, off grid, openstreetmap, place-making, restrictive zoning, side project, Skype, sustainable-tourism, the long tail, trade route, urban sprawl, walkable city

Getting around By bus These cost only $0.25 per trip and while hit and miss are useful for travelling short distances up main avenues such as 12 de Octubre, 6 de Diciembre, 10 de Agosto, and Colón. By electric bus There are three main electric bus routes running north to south, with designated stations and car-free lanes, making them the most efficient way to get around. All charge $0.25 flat fare (bought at kiosks or machines in advance). The three services rarely link up, so changing routes often involves walking several blocks. They generally run every 10min Mon–Fri 6am–midnight, Sat & Sun 6am–10pm. El Trole is the trolleybus system that runs down 10 de Agosto to the Old Town; stops are easy to spot because of their distinctive green raised platforms.


Great Britain by David Else, Fionn Davenport

active transport: walking or cycling, Albert Einstein, Beeching cuts, Boris Johnson, British Empire, call centre, car-free, carbon footprint, clean water, colonial rule, Columbine, congestion charging, country house hotel, credit crunch, Crossrail, David Attenborough, Etonian, food miles, gentrification, glass ceiling, global village, haute cuisine, high-speed rail, illegal immigration, Isaac Newton, James Watt: steam engine, Kickstarter, land reform, Livingstone, I presume, Mahatma Gandhi, mass immigration, mega-rich, negative equity, new economy, North Ronaldsay sheep, North Sea oil, Northern Rock, offshore financial centre, period drama, place-making, retail therapy, Skype, Sloane Ranger, South of Market, San Francisco, Stephen Hawking, the market place, three-masted sailing ship, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, upwardly mobile, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, Winter of Discontent

Some of the dorms, doubles and triples have balconies over the river and Fitz Park, and the hostel has all the facilities a discerning backpacker could wish for. MIDRANGE Cumbria House ( 017687-73171; www.cumbriahouse.co.uk; 1 Derwent Water Pl; r £52-64) Charming Georgian surroundings and an admirable eco-policy (Fairtrade coffee, local produce, and a 5% discount for car-free guests) make this another smart option. Families can rent the top three rooms as a single suite, with views all the way to Blencathra. Heatherlea ( 017687-72430; www.heatherlea-keswick.co.uk; 26 Blencathra St; d £54) One of the best choices in the B&B-heavy area around Blencathra St. Tasteful decor (pine beds, crimson-striped cushions, beige throws) distinguishes the rooms; it’s worth bumping up to superior for the sparkling shower and gargantuan flat-screen TV.