Car dependency
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Car dependency is a pattern in urban planning that occurs when infrastructure favours automobiles over other modes of transport, such as public transport, bicycles, and walking. Car dependency is asso
Auto-oriented development is dependent on auto traffic along a major highway like the Ontario Highway 401 in Toronto. Characteristics of such development, as shown, include large parking lots for businesses and cul-de-sac suburbs.
A parking lot showing significant land usage, at the Staten Island Mall, New York City.
Elevated highway in Ampang, Kuala Lumpur
A diagram showing an inverse correlation between urban density and car use for selected North American cities
Car-free movement
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The car-free movement is a social movement that advocates for car-free cities, centered on the belief that large and/or high-speed motorized vehicles have become excessively dominant in modern life, p
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San Francisco Critical Mass in 2005
A quadracycle parked on a Canadian urban street between cars
An anti-jaywalking poster created in 1937 as part of the United States WPA's Federal Art Project
By the 1950s, the responsibility for avoiding collisions now fell primarily on pedestrians. Illustration from municipal model ordinance from American Automobile Association, 1958