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The eco-city: ten key transport and planning dimensions for sustainable city development
Jeffrey R Kenworthy Environment and Urbanization 2006 18: 67 DOI: 10.1177/0956247806063947 The online version of this article can be found at: http://eau.sagepub.com/content/18/1/67

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The eco-city: ten key transport and planning dimensions for sustainable city development
JEFFREY R KENWORTHY

Jeffrey Kenworthy is Professor in Sustainable Cities at the Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy at Murdoch University in Perth. He is best known for his international comparison of cities around the theme of automobile dependence. He has published extensively in the transport and planning fields for 26 years and is co-author with Peter Newman of Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence (1999) and The Millennium Cities Database for Sustainable Transport (2001) with Felix Laube. Address: Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, 6150; e-mail: J.Kenworthy@murdoch. edu.au

A B S T R A C T Making existing cities and new urban development more ecologically based and liveable is an urgent priority in the global push for sustainability. This paper discusses ten critical responses to this issue and summarizes them in