Car-Dependent Suburbs May Be Slums of The Future

A study released by the Planning Institute of Australia PIA in late 2010 found that “Australia will be forced to rely on huge quantities of imported oil unless it radically overhauls its transport and urban policies” according to The Age newspaper who reported on the findings.

The Australian Planner, the national journal published by the PIA,  had a special issue on Peak Oil, entitled “Cities and Oil Vulnerability”. Unfortunately, this issue is only available for reading by financial member of the Planning Institute of Australia. But it has released three  press releases on this report. One of these media releases referred to one of the papers in the journal ’Petroleum Depletion Scenarios for Australian Cities’ where the authors sought alernative energy solutions within the problems:

“At many homes, shopping centres and businesses, shared plug-in electric vehicles (PEV’s) are parked. Each such vehicle is part of a programme enabling renewable power to be stored in the vehicles’ batteries for release back into the grid as demand rises during the day.”

Read more via Car-Dependent Suburbs May Be Slums of The Future, Says Urban Planning Report : TreeHugger.

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