No car? No problem.

• Position: ENVIRONMENT - Urban planning - Brief article

The pioneers of Vauban, Germany, are going where few suburbanites have gone before: They're giving up their cars. In Vauban, a new suburb of the city of Freiburg, 70 percent of families don't own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move there. The only places to park in Vauban are two garages where spaces sell for $40,000. It's part of a trend in Europe and the United States in which planners are designing suburbs that are less reliant on cars...