Minneapolis Shows How to Make a Great Bike City
People across the country were surprised last year when Bicycling magazine named Minneapolis America’s “#1 Bike City”, beating out Portland, Oregon, which had claimed the honor for many years. Shock...
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Biketopia Exists!
I like to think of utopia as the space where idealism meets reality. Over the years, I have found few radical social change projects that met reality without failure or conflict, especially within a...
View ArticleAmsterdam-by-the-Bay: SF Learns Biking From the Dutch
One of the most dangerous ideas infecting the United States today— both for Americans and the rest of the world— is the myth of American exceptionalism. At its core, this means that Americans have...
View ArticleBikes Boost Economic Opportunities in Your Town
“Biking is definitely part of our strategy to attract and retain businesses in order to compete in a mobile world,” says Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak as we pedal across the Mississippi river on a...
View ArticleAirbnb and Other Creative Cures for Homelessness in Detroit
Alyssa and Matt were tired of being gentrified. Pushed out of several neighborhoods in Pittsburgh as the economy there was on an upswing, a year ago they moved away in search of an alternative to the...
View ArticleThis Week in Sharing: Bikes, Bikes, and More Bikes
From The Atlantic Cities — bike corrals: "New York City is busy gearing up for the long-delayed launch of its bike-share program on an undisclosed date in the next few weeks, with some 5,000 people...
View ArticleMobile Bike Repair Gets Michigan Rolling on Two Wheels
This bike kitchen in Ann Arbor gets creative with skill and tool sharing in this high rent town. It's a great model for how to share in a decentralized and efficient way using existing resources....
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San Buenaventura: Shareable Living in Southern California
The City of San Buenaventura (commonly known as simply Ventura) may well be Southern California's best-kept secret. An incredibly livable city with a population of just over 100,000, Ventura offers...
View ArticleThe Ritual of Critical Mass
Every last Friday of the month there's a mass, a Critical Mass that is — the self-organized bicycle happening that momentarily reclaims the streets of San Francisco for bicyclists and pedestrians. Last...
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People v Cars: The 20th Century Battle over Cities
[image_1_small]“Whose Streets? OUR Streets!” yell rowdy demonstrators when they surge off the sidewalk and into thoroughfares. True enough, the streets are our public commons, what’s left of it, but...
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