Bicycles

Health & Medicine

Australian cities failing on walkability

The World Heath Organization has set targets to promote physical activity but an international study shows Australian cities are built around cars rather than encouraging walking

Health & Medicine

Supporting kids with cerebral palsy go for gold with cycling

Specialist programs led by physiotherapists that teach children with cerebral palsy how to ride boost the odds of success by ten times

Environment

Engineering a smart city

An app that can get you from A to B faster and safer? The technology to transform our burgeoning city transport systems into intelligent networks is already here

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Podcast

Australia: Liveability vs sustainability

While Melbourne may be a liveable city, it’s got a way to go to become sustainable in the face of challenges like climate change

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Book extract

How commuting is transforming our cities

Book extract: Twice a day, every weekday – millions of us spend time in cars, buses, trains and trams commuting. Although many of us hate it, the experiences of our daily journeys are transforming life in our cities

Environment

A greener ‘Kingdom of Bicycles’

Can China’s vision for low carbon cities retrieve the bicycle from its cultural past?

Health & Medicine

Cities for healthier lives

A major study, presented to the UN, has for the first time quantified the healthy years of life we are losing by planning cities for cars rather than humans