ABSTRACT
Significant areas of the public realm are dedicated to vehicle use at the expense of other, more productive investments. With the imminent death of the internal combustion engine due to health concerns and climate imperatives, combined with the increasingly limited access of private vehicles in cities, the land available to be released from standard roads and parking can be radically transformed for the better. How will this change land utilisation, how can parking be repurposed, and what should the immediate approaches be to urban parking in transition? Many cities are initiating remarkable and rapid transformations, adding cycle paths, wider pedestrian pavement, and safer, slower streets, yet advances in smart technologies and particularly automated safety and response systems that can accompany fully automated vehicle districts should allow much more significant repur-posing of streets back to civic spaces for interaction, play, and pleasure.
