Abstract
The rapid growth of world population along with the sprawl growth of towns and suburbanization, has affected the human life and its surrounding nature dramatically. The fact is this level of growth is not sustainable with the current patterns of development. Most cities all around the world are designed in a way that encourages car dependency which is harming the environment and human health.
During the past decade, urban planners formulate new principles of land use development to preserve the environment and protect public health, safety and general welfare of the citizens. These concepts are characterized by some movements such as sustainable communities, new urbanism, green urbanism, and livable places, pedestrian and transit-oriented development, healthy communities, retrofitting suburbia, brownfield redevelopment, community revitalization, and smart growth. The goal of most these movements is to reduce the amount of reliance on motor vehicles to have a sustainable community. One of the newly developed ideologies which decreases the reliance on motor vehicles, is a Car-less city. A car-less city is a city that is designed to remove cars from the streets. This may sound unrealistic in the beginning, but in fact, many cities all around the world, are shifting their mobility solution away from automobile toward more environmentally friendly methods. The intent of this thesis is to study ways to minimize the use of motor vehicles and their negative effects on societies and propose different means of transportation that are environmentally friendly. The materials were gathered from secondary sources and by reviewing similar cases in Iran, Europe and United States to analyze how these cities could help us to preserve the environment.
Advisor
Miriam Porter
Committee Member
Beth Heidelberg
Date of Degree
2018
Language
english
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Urban and Regional Studies
College
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Moeinian, Maryam. (2018). Car-less Cities [Master’s thesis, Minnesota State University, Mankato]. Cornerstone: A Collection of Scholarly and Creative Works for Minnesota State University, Mankato. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/etds/841/
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