For decades, a broad societal consensus in Europe has been rejecting the idea of a car-oriented city – a concept which still enthused planners, politicians and the public until the late 1960s. Today, ...
Motointegrator and DataPulse share data on the most car-dependent cities across the U.S. Americans overwhelmingly rely on their own wheels to get around. Of the 130 million households across the ...
Automobile dependency—the need to use private cars to engage in daily errands and activities—is largely shaped by urban development policies and design practices which, in many U.S. cities, often ...
Access to mass transit also plays a critical role in reducing car dependency, with households in transit-rich areas saving up to $10,000 annually by driving less. Some cities are even making transit ...
When cities rely on automobiles as their primary means of transit, they lack sustainability and quality of life choices that can only come about when urban fabrics are built for their human users ...
Because it only began to grow into a city after the automobile age had begun and because the land is rolling and bisected by canyons, San Diego developed into a sprawling patchwork of low-density, car ...