Arch Daily presents the ten major ideas to emerge from a "design provocation" for big ideas to push trip share of bike in New York City closer to, and even beyond, the levels of Copenhagen.
In imagining how to spur bike trip share from current levels in the United States up toward Copenhagen's 40 percent share or even the 80 percent of China's not-too-distant history, Steven Fleming shares the results of a "design provocation" undertaken along with Charlotte Morton.
The exercise chose the Frederick Douglass Houses in Manhattan as its location due to their significance as "emblematic of the post WW2 attempt to transform New York into a city for driving when, as we know, it was built as a city for walking." Included in the article are a series of renderings summarized by ten key goals, including:
- Let the bike be the quickest way to leave home
- Sculpt the terrain to control cyclists' speed
- Make peace between bikes and pedestrians
- Appreciate cyclists' cognitive maps of their cities
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