Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns: Better Living with Less Traffic by David Engwicht

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This book identifies traffic as a crucial reason for the decline of the quality of urban and town life. It offers a wealth of new perspectives, concrete examples and practical hints for anyone who wants to make our town and city neighborhoods more livable. And it raises the possibility of our creating eco-cities in which pedestrians and bicyclists move freely, without fear, and without breathing deadly toxins. It will change your ideas of what is possible in the urban environment!

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David Engwicht reminds us that the whole point of using cars, and of transportation in general, is to facilitate exchanges of information, goods and services, as well as social and cultural exchanges. The purpose of cities is to maximize these exchanges between people while minimizing the travel needed for the exchanges to take place. That doesn't seem like too radical of an idea, but in our car-dominated cities, the opposite is true; traffic dominates our lives, eating up public space, isolating people and destroying neighborhoods. Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns offers new ideas and concrete examples of how to make cars part of a larger transportation picture that includes many options and serves to bring people together in neighborhoods, parks and downtowns.

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