Mobility
At first glance, a car-free city is a great idea but it is contradicting itself. While more women walk and use public transportation for multiple destinations, they are also the ones more dependent on driving. How does it all fit together?
BONN, GERMANY
Mobility
Barcelona or Paris will be the cities where retired BMW engineers will market a new concept of personal urban mobility that takes on conventional cars
MUNICH, GERMANY
Mobility
In Irkutsk, he mobilized people to influence local road-safety policies; now based in Leipzig, his urban activism has shifted to bring him back to Russia
IRKUTSK, RUSSIA
Mobility
Winter cycling veteran star Pekka Tahkola on why his fellow residents in Oulu, Finland, don’t give up urban cycling even with snow for five months
OULU, FINLAND
Mobility
How Tim Fendley has been advocating for walkable cities behind the scenes while cracking human behaviour in wayfinding to boost walking
LONDON, UK
Mobility
Born in London, a coalition of running enthusiasts is growing by the day to inspire more of us to run everyday journeys, errands and commute. Running mayors will advocate in their cities to legitimize it as an active travel.
LONDON, UK
Mobility
If you google the question ‘How can I ride my bike to work without getting sweaty?’, you will get almost 19 million results just for the last month. For all the urban mobility talk about how to encourage walking and cycling in the city, the fact is that they mean a higher factor of perspiration. ...
LONDON, UK
Mobility
How this advocate uses a brilliant form of attracting attention to bicycle safety in Los Angeles at this moment of cycling revival across US cities.
LOS ANGELES, CA, USA
Mobility
Mobility advocates are spearheading a new discourse that focuses on social justice rather than infrastructure and car-free cities
CHICAGO, IL, USA
Mobility
Cycling thrives in Tokyo without wide lanes, but that unique system is now at risk—and a grassroots group is fighting to preserve it
TOKYO, JAPAN
Mobility
The rise of bike commuting in the Philippines began with a young woman in Manila, who improvised a bike lane with cones and ended up with a $22 million infrastructure
MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Mobility
Salvador, Bahia’s cycling revolution is grounded in the empowerment of Black women riders. Mobility justice movements in the US take notice
SALVADOR DE BAHíA - STATE OF BAHIA, BRAZIL
Mobility
Street names do matter. A street in the city of Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman, is called ‘The Walk’. It sounds obvious. But are streets in cities always walkable? This beautiful piece of road is closed to cars supporting a vision towards a more walkable city and a sustainable urbanisation of Muscat. ...
MUSCAT, OMAN