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Contemporary lifestyles and the implications for sustainable development policy: lessons from the UK's most car dependent city, Belfast (2001)
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Cooper, J., Ryley, T., & Smyth, A. (2001). Contemporary lifestyles and the implications for sustainable development policy: lessons from the UK's most car dependent city, Belfast. Cities, 18(2), 103-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0264-2751%2800%2900062-7

The rise in demand for car travel is fuelled more by the increased spatial separation of homes and workplaces, shops and schools than by any rise in trip making. Belfast is one of the most car dependent cities in the United Kingdom. A major household... Read More about Contemporary lifestyles and the implications for sustainable development policy: lessons from the UK's most car dependent city, Belfast.