Patrick Condon’s Rule 1 for sustainable communities: Restore the streetcar city
Second of Eight Excerpts
“U.S. and Canadian cities built between 1880 and 1945 were streetcar cities. By 1950, this system was utterly overthrown, rendered obsolete by 
the market penetration of the private automobile,” writes Patrick Condon in his latest book, Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities: Design Strategies for the Post Carbon World
“The collapse of that world constitutes a great loss, because the streetcar city form of urban development was a pattern that allowed the emerging middle class to live in single-family homes and was sustainable at the same time.”
To Learn More:
This is the second of eight excerpts published by The Tyee in September/October 2010. To read the complete excerpt, click on Why a Streetcar Is Something to Be Desired. To download a copy, click here.
Acknowledgment:
The Tyee is an independent publication that is found at www.thetyee.ca It went online in November 2003. According to David Beers, Editor, “We’re dedicated to publishing lively, informative news and views, not dumbed down fluff. We, like the tyee salmon for which we are named, roam free and go where we wish.” Since then, The Tyee has attracted some of the best journalists in B.C. who have broken many important stories.
Posted September 2010