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Transport has a massive impact on the design of our cities and towns. Our urban environment could be radically different in a world where quieter, less polluting hybrid vehicles were in abundance.
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- Urban Planning Thu, 18 Oct 2007 3:37 p.m.
The purpose of this debate is to look at hybrid cars in a completely new way. Rather than speculating about where the technology is going, we’re asking our contributors to imagine it has already entered the UK mainstream, and what the implications might be for society as a whole.
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- The car home extension by
- Urban Planning Tue, 9 Oct 2007 4:30 p.m.
Imagine it’s the future. You’re standing in a residential area of a British city. Thanks to cleaner car technology, the suburbs are leafier than they used to be. The buildings look cleaner and brighter, with façades that incorporate more glass and sustainable materials such as woods. Yet perhaps the most surprising feature of this landscape is the absence of parked cars.
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- Realising the dream of the green urban sprawl by
- Urban Planning Tue, 9 Oct 2007 4:11 p.m.
It is said that a city’s skyline can be viewed as a four-dimensional graph of evolving land prices. Skyscrapers point to expensive business districts; clusters of cranes point to upcoming areas of commercial development; and high-rise dormitories built by local authorities point to cheap labour and "key workers".
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- Reinventing the road for health and wellbeing by
- Urban Planning Wed, 17 Oct 2007 5:24 p.m.
In our hypothetical future, where hybrids are widespread and awareness of sustainable living is higher, there will be a more balanced "modal split" on the roads, with space shared between many different forms of mobility. Rather than segregated areas for pedestrians and commercial activity, bicycles and motor vehicles, the streets will be much more democratic. And, increasingly, urban planners will locate new amenities on the basis of their walking or cycling distances from stations or residential areas, rather than on their accessibility to cars and their parking capacity.
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- Realising the dream of a green urban sprawl by
- Urban Planning Tue, 9 Oct 2007 4:39 p.m.
It is said that a city's skyline can be viewed as a four-dimensional graph of evolving land prices. Skyscrapers point to expensive business districts; clusters of cranes point to upcoming areas of commercial development; and high-rise dormitories built by local authorities point to cheap labour and "key workers".
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