The Neighbourhood Elevator and a new vision of urban density | Robocars

by Brad Templeton, Robocars.com

05 August 2014

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I’ve been musing more on the future of the city under the robocar, and many visions suggest we’ll have more sprawl. Earlier I have written visions of Robocar Oriented Development and outlined all the factors urban planners should look at.

In the essay linked below, I introduce the concept of a medium density urban neighbourhood that acts like a higher density space thanks to robocars functioning like the elevators in the high-rises of high density development.

Read The Neighbourhood Elevator and 21st century urban density at robocars.com.

tags: c-Automotive, cx-Politics-Law-Society

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com is an EFF board member, Singularity U faculty, a self-driving car consultant, and entrepreneur.

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