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Western cities suffer from the invasion of too many motor vehicles and the over-concentration of super-blocks built for vast organisations. They have become very energy consuming cities. The Third World is repeating this pattern which is based on concentric growth, choking healthy expansion. The Centre City concept ensures unimpeded simultaneous growth of all parts of the city; it refers to a city closely relating to its centre in which pedestrian movement allied to one single line of fast public transport solves the problem of internal city traffic. The result should be a low-energy city fit for a democratic community.
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Epstein, G. (1982). Well-Being in Cities - The Low-Energy City. In: Laconte, P., Gibson, J., Rapoport, A. (eds) Human and Energy Factors in Urban Planning: A Systems Approach. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7651-1_18
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