ST25. CAR-FREE / LOW-CAR CITIES & NEIGHBOURHOODS
(updated: June 19, 2006 )

• Detailed Topic Index / Main Planning bibliographies Index
• SUT Contacts / SUT Websites
  
  See also the Sustainable Urban Travel index, Structure Planning, Local planning, UDPs and in particular:-
• Air transp., Buses, Car-sharing, Children & transp., Cycling, Disabled people & transp.,
  Environ'tal impact & assessment of transp., Freight, Home Zones, IT & transp./telematics,
  Land use plg. & transp., Light rapid transit/trams, Local transp. funding,
  Motor vehicles & pollution, Multi-modal studies, N. American ST, (other) Euro. ST,
  Park & ride, Parking policy, Public transp., Pub. transp. interchanges,
  Railways, Retailing leisure & transp., Road pricing & congestion charging, Road safety, Roads,
  Safe routes to sch., ST (gen.), Taxis, Traffic-calming, Traffic reduction & traffic restraint,
  Transp. & economic dev., Transp. & equity, Transp. & health, Transp. & older people,
  Transp. demand management & travel plans, Travel behaviour & awareness,
  Underground/Metro Railways, Walking, Waterways & canal transp., Women & transp.
• and also:
• Central gov. / Local gov. in the Central & Local Government context for planning bibliography
• City centres & town centres / Communities & in regen. in the Urban Regeneration bibliography
• Development Plans: (Regional plg. / Structure plg. / LDDs & LDFs / Local plg. / Unitary Dev. Plans (UDPs),
• Greener design, bldgs.. & architecture, Sus. dev. (gen.) in the Sustainable Development bibliography
• Hsg. site development, layout, construction & design in the Housing & Planning bibliography
• Information Technology (IT) & cities in the Urban Regeneration bibliography
• Plg. aid / Plg. conditions / Plg. consultancy / Plg. enforcement / Plg. implementation / Urban Design in
  the Effectiveness of Planning etc. bib'y
• N.B. also the RTPI library catalogue on the web - go to http://www.rtpi.org.uk/library/lib_search.html
  
  and these websites, etc.:-
• Auto-Free Ottawa: http://www.flora.org/afo/
• Car-free Cities Network of Directorate-General XI of the EU: http://www.edc.eu.int/cfc/
• Carfree City USA: http://www.carfreecity.us
• Car-free.com: http://www.carfree.com
• Car-free / car-reduced developments (mainly continental Europe): http://www.autofrei-wohnen.de/homeEngl.html
• Carfree Housing (managed by Wilf Parsons): http://www.carfreehousing.org/
• Carfree Housing Website: ftp://wwwistp.murdoch.edu.au/carfree
• Car-Free Leisure Network: http://www.transport2000.org.uk/goodpractice/carfreeLeisure
• Car-Free Society: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rigolett/
• Car-free UK: http://www.carfree.org.uk/
• European Car-free day feedback: http://www.22september.org/enquetegb.rtf
• Jan Schourer's site on Car-Free housing efforts: http://www.istp.murdoch.edu.au/istp/research/carfree/html
• Linear Car-free Cities proposals (of Rufo Guerreschi): http://www.linearcity.org/
• Markus Heller's site, particularly central Berlin: http://www.autofrei-wohnen.de/PankeAktuell.html
• Moses project (mobility servcies for urban sustainability): http://www.moses-europe.org
• Platform Binnenstad Autovrij (works towards carfree central Amsterdam): http://www.dds.nl/~pba/
• Slateford Green (Edinburgh Car-free neighbourhood project; Canmore Housing Association): http://www.sfha.co.uk
  193 Dalry Road, Edinburgh EH1 2EB, tel. (0131) 313 5444: http://www.citycarclub.co.uk
• Streets Alive (website to encourage street parties): http://www.streetparty.org.uk
• Vauban development (Freiburg, Germany): http://www.vauban.de and http://www.autofrei-wohnen.de/ProjekteD.html#FR-Vau
• World Carfree Network: http://www.worldcarfree.net/directory/

OFL = Ordered for Library - please check University Library catalogue for latest on availability:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/
* indicates more useful and/or up to date references

Alford, Katie, 2000, 'Divorce Your Car: Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile', US$18 or equivalent from Car Busters Magazine and Resource Centre, Kratka 26, 100 00 Praha 10, Czech Republic, tel. +420 2 781 0849, fax. +420 2 781 6727, email: car-busters@ecn.cz

Baird, Nicola, 1998, 'The Estate We are In: Who's driving Car Culture?', Indigo, June.

Baker, Brian, 1999, 'Car-free zone' (proposals to ban cars from a mixed tenure housing estate in West Edinburgh), Housing, October, p25.

Billinger, Hans, 1994, 'Car-free residential area in Munich, Neu-Riem; concepts and legal provisions for a new residential area in Munich without private cars', PTRC 22nd Summer Annual Meeting, Seminar C, PTRC, London, pp207-217.

Brunsing, Jurgen, 1997, 'A car-free Lübeck?', Chapter 38 in Rodney Tolley (ed), 'The Greening of urban transport: planning for walking and cycling in western cities', (second edition), John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, Sussex. (OFL)

Carplus UK, 2003, 'Achieving low-car housing: the role of car share clubs', Carplus UK, Leeds, tel. (0113) 234 9299.

Christ, Wolfgang; Huebner, Christiane & Loose, Willi, 2001, 'Staedtebauliche und oekologische Qualitaeten autofreier und automarmer Stadtquartiere' (Urban design and ecological qualtities of low-car and car-fre urban neighbourhoods) , Universitaet Weimar / Oeko-Institut, Freiburg. ISBN 3 934490 12 3.

Crawford, J.H, 2000, 'Carfree Cities', International Books, Alexander Numankade 17, 3572 KP Utrecht, The Netherlands, fax: +31 30 273 3614, email: books@antenna.nl. ISBN 90 5727 037 4 (HE152.6.E6.C7)

Detour Publications, 'Auto-Free Resources', Detour Publications, Toronto, Canada, 1996.

Environmental and Transport Planning, 1994, 'Lüneburg: The Making of a Car Free Town Centre', ETP, Brighton.

European Academy of the Urban Environment (EAUE), Berlin:
'Auf der Suche nach Mobilitaet - Autofreie Stadtquartiere in Deutschland', 1997.

Evans, Richard, 2001, 'European Car Free Day Good Practice Guide', Environmental Transport Association, Weybridge, Surrey.

Falkenhagen, Joachim, 1994, 'New car free residential areas', in Wijk, Frank, & Bouma, Henk, 'Conference on Car Free Cities', Amsterdam, European Community / Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat / Gemeente Amsterdam.

Feature, 1996, 'Councils look to Europe for lessons in car-free living', Local Transport Today, 15.2.96.
Feature, 1997, 'Edinburgh neighbourhood gets 'car club' to share trips', Urban Environment today, 17.7.97.
Feature, 1999, 'Is it realistic to plan for homes without cars?', Parking Review, July.
Feature, 2000, 'Councils make start on planning for less car dependent living', Local Transport Today, 22.6.00.
Feature, 2002, 'Can car clubs tempt developers to build low-car housing estates?', Local Transport Today 336, 14.3.02, p11

Forschungsgesellschaft fuer Strazssen und Verkehrswesen (FGSV), 2000,'Hinweise zur verkehrlichen Erschliessung von Innenstaedtenbeeichen: Eine kommientierte Beispielsammlung' (Advice on traffic management in inner urban areas: Collection of examples with comments), FGSV Arbeitspapier 135, Koeln/Cologne.

Glotz-Richter, Michael, 1995, 'Living without a car' (plans to for car-free neighbourhood in Bremen, Germany), World Transport Policy and Practice 1.

Hass-Klau, Carmen, 1994, 'Car restraint measures and town centre businesses: a case study', Transportation Planning Systems 10/12, pp59-67.
Hass-Klau, Carmen, 1997, 'Innovative Urban Transport Planning; examples from Europe - Car-Free Town Centres and Residential Areas: Utopia or Reality?' ,Chapter 17 in Fletcher, Tony (ed.), 'Transport and Health'.. HV688.4.L6

Hazel, George, 1998, 'Car-Free Cities Come to Edinburgh' (European Car-Free Cities Conference Report, June 1998), Town and Country Planning 67 (7/8), August/September.

Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Seville; author: Laura Lonza Ricci), 2000, 'Monitoring Progress Towards Sustainable Urban Mobility: Evaluation of Five Car Free Cties Experiences' (Strasbourg, Bremen, Barcelona, Nottingham and Turin), EUR 19748 EN, December, and at ftp://ftp.jrc.es/pub/EURdoc/eur19748en.pdf

Institut fuer Landes und Stadtentwicklungsforschung (ILS), Deutsche Strasse 5, D-44339 Dortmund, Germany
tel. +49 231 90510, fax. +49 231 9051155:
'ILS 108: Planung und Realisierung autoarmer Stadtquartiere: Projekte, Konzepte, Erfahrungen bei der Realisierung von Wohnquartieren fuer Haushalte ohne eigenes Auto' (Planning and Implementation of car-poor town quarters: Projects, concepts, experiences in the implementation of residential areas for households without their own cars)', by Andrea Dittich, Heinz K Klewe et al), 1997. ISBN 3 8176 6108 8.

Irwin, John, 2002, 'Car-Free Development: Can Vancouver's Model Sustainable Community Lead the Way in North America by Being 'Car Free' and Bicycle and Pedestrian Friendly?', Velo City '01 Conference, Edinburgh, Glasgow, September 2001, available on the Conference Proceedings CD, funded by the Scottish Executive and distributed by Spokes, Edinburgh, tel. +44 131 313 2114, email: spokes@spokes.org.uk ISBN 0 9507319 7 8 Y, £10.00 including postage & packing.

Krämer-Badoni, Thomas, 1994, 'Life without the car: an experiment and a plan' (Bremen car-free city proposals), International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 18 (2).

Leidelmeijer, Kees, 1994, 'Developing Car-Free Residential areas', in van Wijk, Frank, & Bouma, Henk, 'Conference on Car Free Cities', Amsterdam, European Community / Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat / Gemeente Amsterdam.

Lemmen, Diana, 1995, 'Bremen, Hollerland: Planning for a community without private cars', Bewohnerberatung, Bremen.
Lemmen, Diana, 1997, 'What happened in Bremen?', Place 1 (4), Summer.

Lemmers, L., 1995, 'How Amsterdam plans to reduce car traffic', World Transport Policy and Practice', 1 (1), pp25-28.

Litman, Todd, ?2000, 'Online TDM Encyclopedia: Chapter on Car-Free Planning', Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Victoria BC, Canada, ?2000, on the web at: http://www.vtpi.org

Llewelyn-Davies Consultants, London:
'Sustainable Residential Quality, Exploring the Potential of Large Sites' - undertaken by consultants Llewelyn - Davies and commissioned by The London Planning Advisory Committee and the Government Office for London, Ref: Con 86, Llewelyn-Davies, London, January 2000. (OFL on 18.2.00).

London Borough of Camden, 1997, 'Taking Steps for a People Friendly Camden', Urban Environment Today, 20.7.97.

London Planning Advisory Committee (LPAC), 1998, 'Sustainable Residential Quality: new approaches to urban living', Annex 1: Neighbourhood car fleets and car-free housing', LPAC, Government Office for London & DETR (OFL).

McClintock, Hugh, 1994, 'No free ride for cities' (report of the Amsterdam 'Car-Free Cities' Conference, March 1994), Planning no. 1062, 1.4.94.
McClintock, Hugh, 1995, 'Radical solutions: 'car-free' cities, in 'Urban Transport', Proceedings of a Conference organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers, Birmingham, 9-10 March 1995, Thomas Telford.
McClintock, Hugh, 1996, 'Cities spreading the word on reducing car dependency', (report of Copenhagen European Car-Free Cities Conference, May 1996), 21.6.96.

McKenzie, Catherine, 1999, 'Car-Free Cities - Myth or Possibility? Exploring the boundaries of sustainable urban transport', World Transport Policy and Practice 5 (1), and on the WTPP website.

Monheim, Rolf, 1997, 'The evolution form pedestrian areas to 'car-free' city centres in Germany', Chapter 19, in R. Tolley (ed.), 'The Greening of Urban Transport', second edition, John Wiley, Chichester, Sussex. (OFL)

*Pharoah, Tim & Apel, Dieter, 1995, 'Transport Concepts in European Cities', Avebury, Adlershot, Hampshire. HE242.P4

Regroupement pour une ville sans voitures,1994, 'Une ville sans voitures?', RVV, 20 rue Cavenne, F-69007 Lyon.

Reutter, Oscar, 2003, 'Local mobility management and urban renewal in public-porivate partnership - the example of the Car reduced living in an existing residential area at Joahnnesplatx in Halle/Saale demonstration', World Transport Policy & Practice", 9 (2), pp40-49, at http://www.eco-logica.co.uk/WTPPhome.html

Reutter, Ulrike & Reutter, Oscar, 1996, 'Car-free households: who lives without any automobile today?', World Transport Policy and Practice 2 (4).

Ricci, Laura Lonza, 2000, 'Monitoring Progress Towards Sustainable Urban Mobility: Evaluation of Five Car Free Cties Experiences' (Strasbourg, Bremen, Barcelona, Nottingham and Turin), EUR 19748 EN, December, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Seville, and at ftp://ftp.jrc.es/pub/EURdoc/eur19748en.pdf

Samuels, Alec, 2002, 'No cars: a valid planning condition or agreement?', Journal of Planning and Environment Law, May, pp514-519

Sayer, Anne, 2000, 'Can our towns and cities really be made car-free - even just for one day?' (proposed European Car-free day on 22.9.00), Local Transport Today, 17.2.00.

Scheurer, Jan, ?, 'Car-free housing in Europe: A new approach to sustainable residential development', Discussion Paper, Institute of Science, Technology and Planning, Murdoch University, Australia - see ISTP website: http://www.istp.murdoch.edu.au
Scheurer, Jan, 1998, 'Car-free housing in Europe: A new approach to sustainable residential development', World Transport Policy and Practice 4 (3), (available from 53 Derwent Road, Lancaster LA1 3ES, or on the WTPP website)
Scheurer, Jan, 2002, 'The rocky road to carefree housing', Velo City '01 Conference, Edinburgh, Glasgow, September 2001, available on the Conference Proceedings CD, funded by the Scottish Executive and distributed by Spokes, Edinburgh, tel. +44 131 313 2114, email: spokes@spokes.org.uk ISBN 0 9507319 7 8 Y, £10.00 including postage & packing.

Senat fuer Hansestadt Luebeck, 1990, 'Autofreie Luebeck; (Car-free Luebeck), Senat fuer Hansestadt Luebeck

Senator fur Umweltschutz und Stadtentwicklung, Bremen, 1994, 'Wohnen ohne eigenes Auto - Bremer Modell fur neue Urbanitat,' (Car-free liviing: Bremen model for new urbanity) Dokumentation zur Fachtagung vom 11-12.April 1994, Der Senator fur Umweltschutz, Bremen.

Sherrington, Mike, 1996, 'Edinburgh sets its sights on a car-free, fume-free city centre', Surveyor, 5.9.96.

Tompsett, Richard, 1995, 'A desire for streets without cars' (proposals for car-free scheme in Edinburgh), Planning Week, 3 (38) 1.9.95.

Totton, Belinda, 2001, 'Clear for a day' (experience of a traffic-free day in central London), Baker, Surveyor, 9.8.01, pp20-21.

Topp, H. & Pharoah, Tim, 1994, 'Car-free Town Centres', Transportation, 21 (3), pp231-247.

van Vliet, R, 1998, 'Autovrije kern maakt Gronginer binnenstad beter' (car-free core makes Groningen's city centre better), Verkeerskunde, May.

van Wijk, Frank, & Bouma, Henk, 1994, 'Conference on Car Free Cities', Amsterdam, European Community / Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat / Gemeente Amsterdam..

Victoria Transport Policy Institut (author: Todd Litman), 2000, 'Online TDM Encyclopedia: Chapter on Car-Free Planning', Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Victoria BC, Canada, and at: http://www.vtpi.org

Wood, Chris, 1997, 'The design and location of car-free housing', Transplan, 45 Beatrice Road, Norwich.

Wolf, W, 1994, 'Berlin - Weltstadt ohne Auto? Eine Verkehrsgeschichte 1848-2015' (Berlin - a world city without the car? A Transport History 1848-2195) ISP, Cologne

Wright, Lloyd, 2005, 'Car-Free Development' module of the Sustainable Transport Sourcebook, http://www.sutp.org/download/carfreemodule.php

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