Planning for Peak Car: International Evidence of How Urban Development is Moving Beyond Auto Dependence
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Speaker: Jeff Kenworthy, Professor in Sustainable Cities, Curtin University, Perth Western Australia and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
The talk examines the phenomenon of peak car use at a national and urban level and looks at some of the reasons that lie behind it.
How GDP growth has now decoupled from growth in car use, particularly in urban regions, meaning that cities can now increase in economic well-being while at the same time reducing their vulnerability to peak oil and their transportation contributions to climate change, while simultaneously improving urban livability and the human attraction of cities.
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September 22
7 pm
SFU Vancouver (Harbour Centre), Room 1400
Reservations can be made online here.
