Carfree cities are carefree cities

Living cities are changeable. An interessting publication that just came out making this point is J.H. Crawford's "Carfree cities."

Some monthes ago at the European Social Forum in London I bought an book called "cities are good for us" from Harley Sherlock. This was interessting because of his historical overview. Sherlock explains how cities grew and evolved, especially in England.

Crawford's book "carfree cities" devellops a model for new cities where cars become ...superfluous. New is that he couples a nicely developed Internet site to the book: http://www.carfree.com/.

Besides its theoretical models for new car-free cities put he a number of original low-car cities in the picture such as venice and the historical Moroccan emperor cities. By means of a fototour you can walk through these old cities. Splendid photography. In spite of the possible counterarguments of occupants and tradesmen it is not considered with difficulty which potential tourist opens you by opening up at least the inner cities for pedestrians. Questions put to the small shop-owners in the many shoppings streets of our inner cities, which were seized firstly with a light panic their street car-free were then made, because "the customers would stay away if they could no longer drive till their front door." Therefore, to large satisfaction of the tradesmen did not stay away the customers not in the least, more still, they made an outing of it. How much more pleasant it quietly beyond the vitrines walk, the street to be able cross without looking round. Everything that you hear its votes and foot steps, no noisy engines or exhaust gases in your face.
(sorry for bad translation, not time, thanks to Babelfish)