httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beGqcHinYac To my mind, buildings like these foretell those we will be building soon with cycling in mind, as cycling is increasingly seen as a panacea for every societal ill. Fair enough too, given cycling really […]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qha1celFi0 In many ways the world is being designed for the day when everyone cycles, without designers having any idea they are being so kind to us. I’ve written and spoken before about us (cyclists) inheriting […]
Although Utopian diagrams of ideal urban models are frightfully daggy these days, they can nonetheless throw big ideas into focus. Thus I posit for your learned consideration, an urban form diagram built on a cyclescape (far […]
A designer, as we know, is landscaping when they conceive planting and earthworks to edify viewers walking about a cultivated landscape. We could say they are streetscaping, when they are thinking of the space between buildings […]
So here is what a separatist cycle-space city might look like. A child reared, schooled, entertained and taken shopping in the colourful new zones marked on this map (of Newcastle, my city), would grow up only […]