Cities and mobility reinventing proximity
Towns and cities are forged in the crucible of multiple communities and usage patterns, and grow with them. In this way, inhabitants build a future as they take control of their daily lives.
This future is built, as we will learn here, on a dual view of mobility: on the one hand, practices relating to proximity; and on the other, a plethora of sustainable mobility solutions. After a century of damaging urban disintegration, we are once again learning that proximity is the central point of our urban lives. It also generates strong demand and a vital level of governance, and may potentially offer a solution to the congestion and saturation issues all too familiar in our towns and their traffic.
It brings with it the promise of new, calmer mobility solutions; provided we are able to take control of the big issue of transport modes, their combinations, their functions, their scales, and the forces that drive a town; people, resources, information… and therefore data. All of these movements show a trend towards carbon-free mobility solutions as an urgent response to climate changes which negatively affect us all.
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