Conclusion

Abstract

There is a time for building and a time for thinking about what is worth being built. Gone are the days when so-called facts were more important than arguing and elaborating ideas. Since when the Sustainable Development compromise has turned out to be a fraud – see Chap. 2 – we need to contrast the incrementalist approach of doing things at any cost, with the culture of thinking, and perhaps also that of planning. In contemporary urban mobility and environmental policy we should abstain from making things, at least big things such as physical mobility infrastructures. Any physical construction we avoid building is more environment friendly than even the most ecological structure we actually fabricate.