The unsustainability of exurban development in London and New York: calculating transport CO emissions

Caralampo Focas

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2017, vol. 60, issue 5, 901-919

Abstract: London and New York have often been hailed for their sustainable planning practices. However, when one focuses on the entire city region, there is ever-increasing car-dependent development. This paper focuses on the exurban region of the two cities investigating transport-created CO2 emissions. The research is based on the analysis of data of the National Travel Surveys of Great Britain and the USA through a quantification of personal travel and a top-down estimation of CO2 emissions. It is the exurban region that accounts for the vast majority of CO2 emissions: 77% for London and 87% for New York. In the wider region for both cities there is a policy vacuum and dearth of regional planning mechanisms to deliver policies to reduce CO2 emissions. The paper argues that transport needs to be planned at the city-regional scale.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2016.1187588

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