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A Key to Urban Sustainability: Overcoming Automobile Dependence

Jeffrey Kenworthy

Professor in Sustainable Cities

Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP)

Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia

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Nexus between transport and urban form is at the heart of overcoming automobile dependence.

This is the basic core framework around which most other factors must be embedded and must operate. Sustainable urban form and transport depend on:

Compact, mixed use development

Human-oriented city centres and sub-centres with minimum density levels

Priority to supplying superior public transport and non-motorised mode facilities, not more large roads

Protection of natural areas and food production potential in cities

Around this core set of factors revolve a constellation of four other essential factors: sustainable technologies for water, waste, energy etc, sustainable economic development, sustainable urban design and creation of a high quality public realm.

Two key processes for decision- making overarch all of this.