June 2012
93 posts
Japan by Edwin
Venice, Italy
Venice, California
Brooklyn We Go Hard in Paris
A bicycle can be like a pair of shoes - utilitarian transport or high fashion - Philip Lim’s “Girls on Bikes”
Bicycle Messengers
Animated bicycle messengers weave between live-action traffic in Midtown Manhattan, highlighting the peculiar relationship between messengers and the city in which they operate.
Current TV - Urban Mobility: Creating a Bike Friendly City
Biking Cities - Seeing is believing
Great ‘be aware’ video/campaign from LA to promote bike safety…
Sao Paulo Bikecapetas - there are 7 million cars in Sao Paulo…
Copenhagen’s Bicycle Superhighways
Tokyo, a city with the population of Canada, gets around with great transit and millions of bikes.
Rio de Janeiro - Airport Bicycle Shuttle on a separated bike lane
Hangzhou’s 2,050 bike-share stations are spaced less than a thousand feet from each other in the city center, and on an average day riders make 240,000 trips using the system. Its popularity and success have set a new standard for bike-sharing in Asia. And the city is far from finished. The Hangzhou Bicycle Company plans to expand the bike-share system to 175,000 bikes by 2020.
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Tokyo firm Atelier Bow-Wow “Architectural Behaviourology” - Barcelona Institute of Architecture lecture.