ABSTRACT

Cities have always been the product of many flows. In the global age, flows of capital, energy, labor power, vehicles, tourists, freight, information, data, waste etc. have become the shaping elements of cities. But urban formations have developed a quite ambivalent relationship with movement and mobility. Modern cities have been built for the car instead of taking into account the ‘human scale’. But the system of automobility has reached a tipping point. Considering a post-fossil and sustainable city means planning, designing and constructing for low and renewable energy, shared and post-carbon mobility beyond the hegemonial position of the car.