Car Free Villages
The idea is sprouting up of making cities or villages more car free. The following are some extreme examples:
Las Catalinas, Costa Rica
Las Catalinas is a beach town developed in 2006 along the shores of the Pacific Ocean in the Guanacaste Province of northwest Costa Rica. The objective was to create a compact, car-free, and fully walkable town, based on the principles of New Urbanism. ~Wikipedia
Discovered via new urbanist researcher Samuel Hughes