让城市为昂贵的石油世界做好准备

Preparing cities for a world of expensive oil

20世纪的后五十年里，世界许多城市都开始仿效美国的交通政策。发展中国家非常羡慕美国的汽车文化，并借鉴了美国高速公路的设计方法，围绕着汽车重新塑造它们的城市。倒退回20世纪，这样的作法看起来并非是不明智之举。

In the next 20 years, the world＇s cities will go through a fundamental transformation, writes WALTER HOOK, Executive Director of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy in New York. Not only will cities in many developing countries expand greatly in size and population, but they will have to serve the basic mobility needs of their people in a world of much higher oil prices.