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Car Sick: Solutions for Our Car-addicted Culture (Paperback)
$19.00 - Save $1.59 (7%) - RRP $20.59 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for Car SickA radical proposal to break the car habit and create a society based round people, not cars
Full description- Publisher: GREEN BOOKS
- Published: 15 September 2006
- Format: Paperback 192 pages
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- Categories: Social Impact Of Environmental Issues | Transport Planning & Policy | Motor Cars
- ISBN 13: 9781903998762 ISBN 10: 190399876X
- Sales rank: 429,980
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Full description for Car Sick
The twenty-first century is gridlocked. Mass motorisation has ruptured community ties, bankrupted a nation of family shops, and bred a nation of obese children and adults. Politicians stumble from one transport crisis to the next. Lynn Sloman proposes a novel way forward - not through the big-bang civil engineering projects, but by getting people to think about their choices, rather than reaching for their car keys. She shows how de-motorisation works: in place of traffic, it offers neighbourly streets and vibrant city centres. Copenhagenis decision to createpedestrian streets in the city centre has made it an outdoor theatre, filled with celebration and spectacle even in winter. From small towns like Langenlois in Austria, to the centre of London, de-motorisation is transforming urban surroundings. We do not need to get rid of cars altogether. What we do need is to change the way we think about travel. Car Sick is a passionate, well-argued case for moving away from a car-centred to a people-centred society.
