PostCarWorld

PostCarWorld is a research project (2013-2017) funded by the Swiss National Foundation within the Sinergia programme. It has involved about twenty scholars – geographers, sociologists, economists, engineers, urbanists and architects – from three institutions (EPFL, Lausanne ; ETHZ, Zurich ; USI, Lugano). The project leadership has been taken on by Jacques Lévy and the Chôros laboratory. The purpose of this project was to build up a scientific, multidimensional simulation of a “beyond-car society”.

Post-Car World.

This synthesis presents the mains conclusions of the PostCarWorld project. First of all, it describes the ambiguous situation of the car throughout the World today : continuation of growth and diffusion in ...

21.12.2017