Singapore Car-Lite City

Gabe Klein of Cityfi was featured as the keynote speaker for “Creating Liveable Cities Through Car-lite Urban Mobility”, a joint project between the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) that aimed to explore and create dialogue around a more sustainable urban environment defined by car-lite urban mobility that facilitates a higher quality of life for all.

 
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Context

The rise of urbanization and increased reliance on the private vehicle as the primary mode of transportation has resulted in negative environmental and social impacts on cities around the world ranging from traffic congestion, carbon emissions and air pollution, urban sprawl and economic costs.

Method

Gabe Klein was featured as the keynote speaker for one of the project workshops, “Strategies on Creating Car-lite Cities — A Practitioner’s Guide to Driving Positive Changes in Cities’ Mobility Ecosystem Quickly and Effectively”, which revolved around identifying key priority areas and quick-wins for the Jurong Lake District to implement car-lite projects in its overall redevelopment as Singapore’s second central business district.

Gabe also contributed to a set of 10 recommendations that serve as practical advice to Singapore and other cities wishing to embrace a car-lite mobility future. The recommendations were designed to be a useful checklist for both what needed to be done to usher in a paradigm shift (i.e. specific strategies and initiatives), as well as how to get these things done (i.e. the approach and mind-set required to get things done quickly and effectively).

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Project Information

Client: Centre for Liveable Cities (Singapore governmental agency)

Location: Singapore

Partners: Urban Land Institute