About the Project
Cycle Space is an exciting new book about the way we can make our cities safer, healthier and more fun to live in. Australian author Steven Fleming explores how to do this by connecting cycling, architecture, design and urban planning. By helping sponsor this book you are helping the efforts of Steven to create better cities for cyclists, and in that way, better cities for all!About the book:
From New York to Singapore, from Copenhagen to Sydney, from Chicago to Amsterdam, and from São Paolo to Budapest, there is a groundswell of cyclists taking to the streets of major cities. Whether death-defying bike messengers, hipsters with a taste for cycle chic, or commuters simply cycling to work, cycling is viewed as more than just an alternative. It’s practical. It’s cool. It’s green.
In Cycle Space, architecture
professor and cycling nut Steven Fleming argues that understanding why people
are choosing bikes, is key for discovering the full potential of the bicycle as
a transformative force in the design of our cities.
Cycle space is where architecture and urban design can begin to optimise
conditions for cycling, and take inspiration from the aesthetics and ethics of
cycling as well. It is where cities can begin reducing emissions, commute
times, ill-health and sprawl. With portraits of major cities and their cycle
secrets, Cycle Space is the first book to view the city through the lens of the bicycle,
and offer a new ways of designing better cities.
About the author:
Steven Fleming helped pay his way through architecture school by winning
bike races. Dr Fleming is a lecturer at the School
of Architecture and Built Environment
at the University
of Newcastle. He leads annual
architectural study tours around Europe and has
competed in over one thousand amateur bike races.
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