Discussion: Potential for carfree development in the UK - categorising carfree communities

On reading the interesting article ‘Potential for carfree development in the UK’ (Melia et al, 2012), we were struck by the notion that nowhere in the extant literature is there a comprehensive taxonomy of what might be termed ‘carfree communities’ in the most general sense. As a tentative first step in this direction therefore, we propose ten possible criteria to consider