This article was written by Simon Poole for the transport group of Transition Town Brixton. The aim was to help us ‘think big’ about promoting both carfree lifestyles and carfree neighbourhoods. Carfree Uk (http://www.carfree.org.uk/)was set up three years ago , inspired by examples from European cities such as Freiberg, Copenhagen and Hamburg where there are sizeable carfree developments, and is promoting such developments in other UK cities. Meanwhile the more of us who live carfree lifestyles the more ‘street cred’ we have in putting pressure on the authorities for such developments. http://www.thefourwheeldetox.com/ provides a number of inspiring examples of people living without a car, by choice, throughout the UK.

This article will appear in A2B Magazine in a few weeks time To download attachment click on the link below. Steve Melia is Senior Lecturer in Planning and Transport at the University of the West of England and Coordinator of Carfree UK (www.carfree.org.uk)

Making the case for living without a car - as just 'using your car less' (assuming you have a car in the first place). Read this article - and we hope you agree that 'use less' is actually rather 'useless' advice! Even if you don't agree do please comment on this article. Tony Emerson January 2011

A recent book outlines how a society can become ‘prosperous’ in a meaningful way without economic growth (which is inherently unsustainable). This article suggests that this book – acclaimed by people as different as Mary Robinson, the former chief scientist of BP and the Financial Times reviewer – has great relevance to us in the carfree movement.