Beyond Mobility by Robert Cervero

Author:Robert Cervero
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2017-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

Car-Free Districts

An even bolder urban design and traffic management strategy has been the outright banning of cars from the cores of traditional neighborhoods and districts, complemented by the upgrading and beautification of pedestrian spaces. This practice has become common in many older European cities whose narrow and winding inner-city street were never designed for motorized traffic. Car-free historical districts today thrive in Athens, Greece; Seville, Spain; Lübeck and Bremen, Germany; Bologna and Sienna, Italy; and Bruges, Belgium, as well as substantial portions of university towns such as Gröningen and Delft, the Netherlands; Oxford and Cambridge, England; and Freiburg and Münster, Germany.5 Collapsible bollards have proven particularly effective at controlling entry; they physically bar cars from car-free zones yet allow residents, taxis, emergency vehicles, and delivery trucks free entry. However, physical barriers are giving way to modern technology. In Cambridge, England, license plate recognition cameras recently replaced bollards for controlling entry to the city’s historical core (figure 8–2).

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