Free event today at 5:30 at Palm Beach Dramaworks, 201 Clematis Street in West Palm Beach

This event is being hosted by CUES at FAU and sponsored in partnership with the West Palm Beach DDA and the Palm Beach County Planning Congress:

Professor Peter Newman: The End of Automobile Dependence: Global and Local Trends Moving Away from Car-based Planning 

Peter Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University. He has written 16 books and over 300 papers. His books include "The End of Automobile Dependence" (2015), "Green Urbanism in Asia" (2013) and "Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence" which was launched in the White House in 1999. Peter was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Virginia Charlottesville and was on the IPCC for their 5th Assessment Report.

In 2016, Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull noted that Professor Newman was his “tutor on transportation policy.”