Climate change is one of the major challenges being faced by mankind in the 21st century. The dramatic effects of climate change are already being felt and include wide-spread melting of glaciers and ice caps, rising sea levels, changes in rainfall patterns, heat-waves and extreme weather events. Climate experts are warning that future effects will [...]
Let’s remember how useful it can be to ask new questions, remembering how Albert Einstein asked himself questions that led to his discovery of the special and general theories of relativity.[1]
Are there not many questions we need to be asking about how to organise our transport — our systems and modes of transport? Our current [...]
Geoff Nicholson is a walker. It is what he likes to talk about; it is how he defines himself. So he requested and received his publisher’s approval to write a book about walking. However, this book is not about the ‘art of walking’. The author readily admits that he was in fact laid-up for much of the writing process due to injury.
What do the cities of Lusaka (Zambia), Manila (Philippines), Hanoi (Vietnam), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Kathmandu (Nepal), and Bangalore (India) have in common?
Visually different as they are in many respects, any attempt to move about the streets makes it clear that pedestrians are not valued, and that the tiny elite minority in cars – or in some cases, the majority on motorbikes – rule the streets.
In Groningen, the Netherlands’ sixth largest city, the main form of transport is the bicycle.
The city is famous for having the highest percentage of bicycle usage in the world. How has Groningen done it? Cycling in Groningen, and indeed much of the Netherlands, is just the norm.
The Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, organised an art-environment awareness campaign, with unexpected results. The exhibition, called “Trouble in Paradise”, aims to show the consequences of our consumption and production patterns to the natural environment.
Last May around 5,000 people on foot, roller blades, skateboards, unicycles and bicycles, streamed past a police roadblock onto the iconic Harbour Bridge in Auckland, New Zealand. They were celebrating the 50th birthday of a structure upon which many people had never before set foot.
The “Bikes not Cars Festival” hit the streets of Amsterdam, The Netherlands this July. With music, tall-bike jousting bike wars, a baksfiets (the typical Dutch cargo-bikes) race and more, the event brought a much needed reality check to a city without a regular Critical Mass, yet with such a large number of bikes.
This year’s Bike to Work Week (BTWW) in Metro Vancouver, Canada, was a huge success with 5,000 cyclists registering and participating during May. Each day of the week, commuter celebration stations were set up along bike routes to offer free food, prizes and mechanical help.
Passeio Livre (Portuguese for Clear Sidewalk) is an organisation that evolved from the growing realisation of how feeble respect towards pedestrian mobility is and from the need to react against the cultural acceptance of abusive car parking, as well as the apathy of policy makers and police authorities to do anything about it. A group of pedestrian advocates based in Lisbon began gathering to organise an adequate response to balance this problem common to all major cities in Portugal.
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