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Tag Archives: human scale
Imagining a City Built for Bicycles
A lot is made, and rightfully so, of the differences between walkable cities and auto-dependent cities, but isn’t there a middle way? Truly walkable cities, like most medieval walled cities and their small town USA descendents, aren’t really cities in the modern context. They can’t accommodate the scale and diversity we now associate with a city. Auto-dependent cities handle scale and diversity just fine, but they disconnect people from the built environment and each other. But what if we built our cities for bicycles? What would that look like? What benefits and drawbacks would this model have?
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Posted in Uncategorized, What if?, Placemaking, Transportation, Josh Grigsby, transit, Culture, Livability, Auto Independence, human scale, walkable, architecture, urban design, urban planning, can bicycles save the world?
Tagged accessibility, air pollution, autodependence, beach cruiser, bicycles, bikability, brooklyn, built environment, Cambridge, classism, college town, complete ecosystems, concrete jungle, cooperation, Copenhagen, crime deterrent, denmark, Euclidean zoning, human scale, Los Angeles, low density, manhattan, Massachusetts, medieval walled cities, mixed-use, mobility, modern cities, noise pollution, norway, obesity, para-transit, permeable pavers, population density, portland, Providence, rhode island, San Francisco, seattle, social change, sunbelt, sustainable settlements, Switzerland, trampe, transit, trondheim, urban core, urban density, vancouver, walkability, working bikes, Zurich
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Creating Car-Reduced and Car-Free Pedestrian Habitats
It will take a long time for the US to embrace pedestrians, bicycling, and electric carts as substitutes for cars in our communities. And yet an inevitable change is coming that will significantly increase environmental quality, and restore real community and economic viability. Changing legislation, master planning, and the development of car-reduced and car-free communities will move us forward, writes Greg Ramsey. Continue reading
Posted in Auto Independence, Culture, human scale, Livability, Placemaking, Shout Outs, Sustainability, transit, Transportation, walkable, What if?
Tagged auto-dependence, car-centric planning, car-free, car-reduced, cohousing, community, connectivity, Copenhagen, eco-villages, electric cart, Greg Ramsey, human scale, mixed-use, New Orleans, pedestrian, people-centric, Placemaking, planetizen, sprawl, St. Augustine
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from Copenhagenize: Bicycle Commuter Superhighways
The City of Copenhagen is currently planning to expand the existing, extensive network of bike lanes to extend farther out into the suburbs. A network of 13 high-class routes – ‘bicycle superhighways’ if you will – dedicated to bicycle commuters and aimed at encouraging more to cycle to work. Continue reading
Posted in Rants, What if?, Placemaking, Shout Outs, Transportation, Josh Grigsby, transit, Culture, Livability, Sustainability
Tagged walking, transit, best practices, auto-dependence, Copenhagen, human scale, Amsterdam, Freiburg, Groningen, historic cities, ecological footprint, urban consolidation, biking, Pete Seeger, Ecclesiastes, Copenhagenize.com, bike infrastructure
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