This is a short but extremely useful article! Basing his arguments on many studies of mobility in towns over the period 1975 to 2000, Jean-Marie Guidez describes the sudden rise of the private car at the expense of all other forms of transport.
Is this inevitable?, he asks, and at once demonstrates that it is not. Some towns have indeed successfully given priority to other modes of transport…
Mobilité urbaine : le règne de la voiture
Cet article fait partie de la revue Futuribles n° 288, juil.-août 2003