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Chicago is increasingly a bicycle friendly City
The new lanes help a lot: Protected bi-directional lane in Chicago So do the emerging innovative beautiful bike parking forms such as this one: Corrals in Andersonville And this one: And of...
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Johannesburg’s past vibrant bicycle culture
A visitor to Johannesburg would be hard pressed to identify a vibrant utilitarian bicycle culture. Most residents perhaps imagine that not only is it impossible to create one, there also has never...
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Chicago’s evolving bicycle culture
In December of 2016, I visited Chicago on a short holiday. Chicago was one of my secondary study sites for my recently completed PhD into changes into the symbolic status of everyday cycling. I took a...
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Place and bicycling cultures
Why do places exhibit sometimes very different bicycling cultures? Some being predominated by cycling as a sport or for recreation. While in others, people may use bicycles mainly for transportation?...
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Where are the users of Johannesburg’s bicycle lanes?
In the last few years bicycle lanes have been built in Johannesburg. These were intended to stimulate a commuter cycling culture in the wake of growing road congestion and awareness of the negative...
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The return of commuter cycling in Beijing?
Is bicycling for transport in Beijing on the upswing? When I was working on my PhD thesis, part of which examined developments in Beijing, one story in the immediate market liberalisation phase was...
View ArticleContext and utility cycling: The case of Springs in comparison to Johannesburg
Introduction Streets in Gauteng are dominated by people using automobiles. This means that other users and types of uses are, in the main, subservient to those of driving. This is in spite of the low...
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