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Based on [0], but it seems to be extremely ill-defined what a "car-free place" is. For example, in the United States, something like a single car-free street se

by lqet 7y ago

Based on [0], but it seems to be extremely ill-defined what a "car-free place" is. For example, in the United States, something like a single car-free street seems to fit this definition, whereas in Europe, you will find pedestrian streets basically in every town or village, but only the places where for example the entire city center / old town is carless appear in the article. I also tried to do a little manual disambiguation: US 59 Germany 36 France 31 Austria 28 Switzerland 26 UK 17 Spain 17 Australia 16 Canada 11 Bulgaria 11 Italy 10 Portugal 9 Argentina 9 Poland 8 Netherlands 8 Morocco 8 Mexico 7 Belgium 7 Greece 6 Croatia 6 China 6 Sweden 5 Romania 5 Japan 5 Israel 5 Ukraine 4 Turkey 4 Russia 4 India 4 Brazil 4 Serbia 3 Denmark 3 Nicaragua 2 Lithuania 2 Lebanon 2 Finland 2 Vietnam 1 Urugay 1 UAE 1 Thailand 1 Nepal 1 Montenegro 1 Malaysia 1 Lybia 1 Latvia 1 Kenya 1 Kazakhstan 1 Indonesia 1 Hungary 1 Estonia 1 Cuba 1 Colombia 1 Chile 1 Sierra Leone 1 New Zealand 1 Czech Republic 3 Costa Rica 2 Burkina Faso 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car-free_places https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car-free_places

wetpaws 7y ago
US having a first place looks strange given how car-centric it's culture is.
- david-gpu 7y ago
  The figures are not per-capita. That's why.
- yellowapple 7y ago
  The US has a lot of small cities/towns, where it's arguably easier to implement this sort of thing, even by accident. The US also has a lot of old cities/towns (or sections thereof) untouched by the World Wars, and thus having missed out on the "opportunity" to rework things for cars without having to demolish perfectly good and usable (and now historic) buildings. There are also quite a few golf course / country club / equestrian / etc. communities where there's some other mode of transportation (e.g. golf carts or horses) that's common enough to make car access less necessary.
- vinay427 7y ago
  One thing I was thinking of are university campuses, which tend to be more often be localized (not spread among a larger city) in the US. I'm sure there are some in European countries but I haven't seen it yet and I'm a student here. In most of these types of campuses that I've been to in the US, the main streets within the campus are therefore closed to non-essential car traffic.

by lqet 7y ago

wetpaws 7y ago

US having a first place looks strange given how car-centric it's culture is.

david-gpu 7y ago
The figures are not per-capita. That's why.
yellowapple 7y ago
The US has a lot of small cities/towns, where it's arguably easier to implement this sort of thing, even by accident. The US also has a lot of old cities/towns (or sections thereof) untouched by the World Wars, and thus having missed out on the "opportunity" to rework things for cars without having to demolish perfectly good and usable (and now historic) buildings. There are also quite a few golf course / country club / equestrian / etc. communities where there's some other mode of transportation (e.g. golf carts or horses) that's common enough to make car access less necessary.
vinay427 7y ago
One thing I was thinking of are university campuses, which tend to be more often be localized (not spread among a larger city) in the US. I'm sure there are some in European countries but I haven't seen it yet and I'm a student here. In most of these types of campuses that I've been to in the US, the main streets within the campus are therefore closed to non-essential car traffic.