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Reclaiming Our Roads From Cars

May 5, 2025 David L. Prytherch, Next City. Create! Bicycles, carless community, Pedestrians, Transportation, Urban Design

Change, one might say, is afoot. We often think of streets as vehicular infrastructure, as “pipes for cars.” But streets, including the roadway surface, are social spaces — indeed public places. Stepping off the sidewalk onto the asphalt, we experience firsthand the diversity, dynamism, dangers and inequalities of the American city on the move. If we hope to achieve a more livable, equitable and sustainable city, we must reclaim the roadway for people. Historically, American streets were bustling, mixed-use spaces, but a century ago they were swept by the epidemic novelties of the automobile and influenza.

How Should Cities Use The Land Freed Up By Highway Removal?

August 19, 2024 Morgan Florsheim, Next City. Create! carless community, Highways, Urban Design, Wisconsin

The 20th-century era of urban planning saw highways carving scars across the landscapes of many American cities, leaving in their wake a legacy of displacement and destruction. Today, removing freeways seems to offer a path to repairing some of this harm and moving away from car-centric infrastructure. But highway removal alone is not enough. Whether removal projects make good on their promises to mend some of the damage caused by freeway construction and redesign cities at a more human scale depends entirely on two questions: Who controls the reclaimed land when a freeway comes down, and how will those decision makers use it?

Berlin Neighborhood To Experiment With Eliminating Parking Spaces

February 15, 2023 Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch. Create! Berlin, carless community, climate crisis, health

Berlin, Germany - For at least three months beginning this coming summer, a south Berlin neighborhood will embark on a novel experiment: eliminating parking spaces. The idea behind the project is to devote the space usually reserved for cars to other uses like growing plants or providing recreation. “The idea we are pursuing is whether public spaces can be experienced and used in more efficient ways than keeping them reserved for parked cars,” Green council member for Berlin’s Kreuzberg district Annika Gerold, who heads transport affairs, said, as The Guardian reported. Reducing or eliminating car use in cities is seen as a climate solution that has other benefits for public health and urban life.

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