Cars in the city | Christian Spanring

I can probably list more than a hundred studies, reports or articles dealing with the negative impact of cars on modern city structures. But none of them illustrates the benefit of car-free cities so well as the image below does:

Amount of space occupied by cars in Münster
City of Münster showing the amount of space occupied if the same group of people would go by car, bus or bike.

Which street would you prefer for living: the one packed with cars or the one where kids could play on?

I never owned a car and don’t plan to do so. My mobility is based on bike, public transport and car sharing and I can’t complain about a low standard of living. [via Helge]

http://schani.wordpress.com/ schani

This is actually a very good demonstration of how to use a wide-angle lens to make people smaller and places seem bigger.
http://spanring.eu/ Christian

still, bike or bus need less space than cars for urban transportation.
http://schani.wordpress.com/ schani

I know. My point is that I don’t like dishonest propaganda, whether for good causes or bad.
Rasterbator

I would like to see biking become a larger part of the transportation pie.
Theatons Toys

Impressive.
I think all cities should be completly shut of from cars and everyone should just park up at a park and ride and just used shared bikes in.