CAR-FREE CITIES

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CAR-FREE CITIES A MESSAGE FROM SOUTHWEST EUROPE
TO SOUTHEASTPROF. ENG. MANUEL DA COSTA
LOBOISTANBUL, AUGUST 2007

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• INITIAL THOUGHTS
• 1ST CARS CAN KILL PEOPLE
• 2ND CARS CAN DISTURB PEOPLE
• 3RD CARS ARE ENERGY CONSUMERS
• 4TH CARS ARE MACHINES
• 5TH CARS COST A LOT OF MONEY
• 6TH CARS MUST BE TOOLS TO SERVE PEOPLE, TO SAVE
  CITIZENS, TO USE WISELY, TO PARK AND TO CIRCULATE
  ON THE PLACES MADE FOR CARS, BUT NOT INVADING
  CITIZENS SPACE

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• 7TH CITY SPACE IS FOR CITIZENS TO WALK, TO STAY,
  TO MEET, TO WORK
• 8TH PEOPLE LIKE FREEDOM! AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
• 9TH DONT PUT GATES ON OUR CITIES, DONT PUT
  DIFICULT STEPS ON THE STREETS (CREATE
  ALTERNATIVES FOR STAIRCASES), DONT POLUTE OUR
  SPACE (CHICKENS MUST GO TO CAGES, ELEPHANTS MUST
  GO TO THE JUNGLE, BIRDS MUST GO TO THE TREES,
  CARS MUST GO TO PARKING PLACES OR TO SPECIAL
  STREETS FOR CARS)
• 10TH TWENTY CENTURY CITIZENS ACCEPTED CARS ON
  THEIR HUMAN SPACES BUT NOW THEY ARE UPSET! NOT
  ANYMORE CARS OUT!

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• Let us try a theoretical model for a region,
  having in mind car-traffic reducing, assuming
  cities of 60.000 inhab car-free, 250.000
  inhab mostly car-free, 1.000.000 balanced and
  4.000.000 inhab multi-pole.

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POLLUTION-FREE CITIES!

• 1ST HEALTHY AIR COMPOSITION
• 2ND MORBID RADIATIONS OUT
• 3RD GOOD QUALITY WATER
• 4TH HEALTHY SOIL
• 5TH CRIME-FREE CITIES/CIVIC EDUCATION
• 6TH CAR-FREE CITIES

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• POLLUTION IS ANY QUALITY OF MATERIALS AND
  SUBSTANCES PLACED WHERE IT IS NOT THEIR PLACE.
• THEN
• A CRIMINAL IN THE CITY IS POLUTION, IN PRISON IS
  A CITIZEN BEING PUNISHED AND EDUCATED.
• A CAR IN THE CAR-PARKING IS A STANDING-BY CAR, A
  CAR ON THE PAVEMENT IS LITTER, IT IS POLLUTION,
  MUST BE CLEANED OUT.
• ORGANIC REMAINS OF COOKING ON THE FLOOR IS
  POLLUTION, IN THE LAND IS FOOD FOR THE
  AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION.
• SEWAGE IN THE TREATMENT PLANT IS AN EFFLUENT
  BEING PROCESSED, SEWAGE ON THE STREET IS
  POLLUTION, ETC

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• AS MEASURES TO PROGRESS SLOWLY TO THE
  OBJECTIVE OF CAR-FREE CITIES ONE CAN LIST
  DIFFERENT POSSIBILITIES
• AT THE CENTRAL AREA ONLY ALLOWED CARS OF A
  SMART SIZE OR EXCEPTIONAL SITUATIONS LIKE
  FIRE-BRIGADE, POLICE, AMBULANCE, HANDICAPED
  PERSONS.
• AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO ENTER IN THE CENTRAL AREA
  IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO HAVE A GREEN CARD AND THE
  PRICE TO PAY WOULD PROGRESSIVELY INCREASE WITH
  THE SIZE OF THE CAR.
• THE CITIES WOULD BE PLANNED AS A SYSTEM OF
  CAR-FREE POCKETS LINKED AMONG THEM BY UNDERPASSES
  OR FLY-OVERS FOR PEDESTRIANS AND BYCICLES.

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EACH URBAN UNIT MUST HAVE A CAR-SILO OR A
CAR-PARKING PLACE OR A CAR-PARKING SYSTEM WHERE
THE CARS COULD FIND A PLACE TO STAY AND THEY
WOULD BE ORIENTED TO THAT PLACE OR PLACES EACH
TIME THEY WOULD REACH THE CITY.

• CARS OUT SIDE PARKING PLACE (P)
• OR OUT-SIDE THEIR OWN GARAGE
• THEY WOULD BE CONSIDERED
• WASTE, TO REMOVE AND DESMANTLE

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Prof. Eng. Manuel da Costa Lobo