Does Better Urban Design Beat Better Car Design when it comes to Emissions?

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Cities: A Smart Alternative to Cars: Creating compact communities—and eliminating the need to drive everywhere—may be the best way to slash greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles (Business Week, Feb. 11, 2008)

 

Today’s review articles focus on the reasons why curbing sprawl by developing compact communities lessens the need to drive and, as a result, lowers vehicles emissions more efficiently than incremental technological improvements in car design. Also, considering the major part that transportation – and private car use as a part of that – plays in greenhouse gas emissions, this sector warrants more attention than others in mitigating the impacts of climate change – which are evident world-wide in the news.

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