Active Cities
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Increasing the share of active mobility (walking, cycling) in North Sea Region Cities for citizen-focused, sustainable zero-carbon multimodality.
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https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/active-cities 08-02-2023 11:01:42
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“Building bike infrastructure benefits absolutely everybody in a city, whether they choose to ride a bicycle or not. It’s one less car on the street in front of you, it’s reduced healthcare and maintenance costs, reduced air and noise pollution.” LISTEN: open.spotify.com/episode/2JoV1p…
“It’s not so much a matter of what a bicycle is actually capable of, much less a cargo bike, but more that people have a certain set of narratives (an imaginary) about what cycling is, what it can do, and what it could become.” International Cargo Bike Festival cargobikefestival.com/features/cargo…
On the latest episode of the Active Cities podcast, we spoke to Melissa & Chris Bruntlett (Melissa & Chris Bruntlett) about building cycling & walking networks across our cities to make them more human-centric and sustainable. 🏙️🚶♀️🚴♂️ Read more & listen to the ep ➡ baxcompany.com/insights/putti…
Cycling connects people to the land. "To design cities right, we need to focus on people. Far too often, city planning is approached as an engineering problem, instead of connecting people with the land." writes Scientific American. What better way than #cycling? scientificamerican.com/article/to-des…