I just red the article Can a city really ban cars from its streets?. It was an interesting article and it felt like something I may have read before on sites like Treehugger and TED. It is although a interesting topic and an important one. Considering that we are each day destroying our environment it would be a good step to at least not destroy it as much. Many of the city's built in the 20th century is not made for walking, unlike Nancy Sinatras boots, but for the cars. The initiative to ban cars is good only if it is followed by other changes to our societies like the ones suggested in Moshe Safdie's TED-talk about reinventing the way we use and build city's. This way of using the buildings concentrates peoples in the city's and by that fault also minimizes the amount of travel a person needs to do in order to get to where "hen" want to go.

There are other city's trying to tackle the problems with cars owning the streets. Bogota for example have a car free week, it came out of a car free day that was introduced in 2000. There are city's that never really had a problem to be car free, like Venice there are lessons to be learned from these city's.

There might be issues with a city going car free. These could be, transportation of merchandise to stores and offices in the city, transporting the elderly and the disabled. These problems are quite quaint and they will happily be taken care of by designers and inventors. People are adaptable and this will not really be a problem once we get there. So to conclude, all major city's should try to make sure that cars stay out of their city.