With 1 in 3 people physically inactive, #cycling is a powerful public health tool. Explore global #research and #policy insights on how integrating cycling into daily life can combat #non-communicable diseases and create a #healthier population!
@d-power.bsky.social
We bring you Lilian Markfort's research article on the relationship between different modes of transport and #happiness + #wellbeing.
Read on to find the #results for #cycling and #subscribe!
open.substack.com/pub/urbancyc...
Read @d-power.bsky.social insights and advice for bridging applied research with policy and practice!
Conference Key Dates
📢 Call for abstracts opens: 20 January
✏️ Abstract submission closes: 24 March
🐦 Early bird registration opens: 24 April
🚀 Early bird registration closes: 15 August
Submit your abstract here: cyclingresearchboard.com
💥 Expect: A mosh pit of disciplines, researchers from across the globe, and ideas that spark change. Will you be part of it?
When & Where?
🗓 10-12 September 2025
📍 The Brug, University of Amsterdam, Roeterseiland Campus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
This year is the 9th edition of CRBAM 2025, hosted by the @urbancyclinginstitute.org and the University of Amsterdam! This isn’t your typical conference—it’s a gathering of interdisciplinary minds using cycling to crack open the bigger questions of mobility, inclusion, and social change.
Conference Key Dates
📢 Call for abstracts opens: 20 January
✏️ Abstract submission closes: 24 March
🐦 Early bird registration opens: 24 April
🚀 Early bird registration closes: 15 August
Submit your abstract here: cyclingresearchboard.com
💥 Expect: A mosh pit of disciplines, researchers from across the globe, and ideas that spark change. Will you be part of it?
When & Where?
🗓 10-12 September 2025
📍 The Brug, University of Amsterdam, Roeterseiland Campus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
This year is the 9th edition of CRBAM 2025, hosted by the @urbancyclinginstitute.org and the University of Amsterdam! This isn’t your typical conference—it’s a gathering of interdisciplinary minds using cycling to crack open the bigger questions of mobility, inclusion, and social change.
Join us for the official launch of the Cycling Futures #Manifesto- An imagination and re-imagination of #cities that are spaces of #play, #safety, #creativity and #community!
March 4th at 6 PM CET
sign-up here- docs.google.com/forms/d/14Kn...
@michelagrasso.bsky.social
New report from UN-Habitat "Healthier Cities and Communities through Public Spaces"
The report offers 7 strategies to improve health outcomes in cities and offers tangible recommendations to support implementation.
Instead of blowing cash on elaborate traffic signal systems crammed with #tech, how about just allowing fewer #cars on #Amsterdam streets?
Sometimes, simple answers are best.
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
What happens when a city of 9M prioritizes people over cars? #Bogotá's Ciclovía shows us:
🩺 Improved public health
💪 Stronger communities
🚦 Safer streets
🚴🏽 Better #UrbanMobility
See how #Ciclovía inspired 400+ cities to open their streets: https://bit.ly/3VFTkdd
#OpenStreets
Our starter pack (v1.0) is up!
go.bsky.app/CTAqgVR
Mi entrevista en español para ‘EYS Municipales´ muy completa y que recomiendo: "El futuro de las ciudades depende de nuestra capacidad para rediseñar el espacio urbano"
www.eysmunicipales.es/actualidad/e...
This is a poster inviting to a talk by Vinzenz Fischer, Emi Köhler and Noah Egger of the Working Group on Intersectional Discrimination and Racism at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Their presentation, titled ‘Representing the Underrepresented’ is part of the Wednesday Seminar series at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. It takes place on December 4th, starting at 5pm, at the department’s Übungsraum lecture hall, or online, via Zoom.
For this week’s Wednesday Seminar, we welcome three speakers who will share their thoughts on the state of representation in #anthropology in general and at our department in particular: (1/x)
#socialsciences #ethnography @univie.ac.at
"It’s so emotionally captivating to see kids in masses biking with each other...it’s like you’re seeing freedom, independence, joy, the health...everybody’s craving what that imagery represents." New research shows the impact of #bikebus on #kids #health #communities #futures.
shorturl.at/Uem6d
For audiobook fiends and fans, my book 'Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds' is a bargain/steal @ £0.99 today and is read by yours truly! How can you say no to that combo - cheap/me?! 👍😀 www.amazon.co.uk/Talking-Head...
Low/Medium cost solutions to what cities can do *right now* to reduce emissions = develop walkable, cyclable cities
Great to see mention of the role of active mobility in the World Cities Report 2024.
Read the full report here:
unhabitat.org/world-cities...
🇧🇶 🚲🚶♂️Active mobility on Bonaire! 🇧🇶🚲🚶♂️
Urban Cycling Institute is working to develop policy active mobility policy on Bonaire, an island in the Caribbean Netherlands. Read our baseline report at the link below👇
urbancyclinginstitute.org/mobility-on-...
@urbancyclinginst.bsky.social
It's a movement that brings freedom & joy!
Here's 120 groups, ranging from a few people in small towns to citywide bike advocates and blogs to nationwide bicycle and cargo bike advocacy organizations.
Worldwide Bike Advocacy groups
go.bsky.app/LFtXMiL
It's also a Feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Looking forward to reading this, thanks for sharing. We're currently running a study in the US focused on cycling governance, institutional learning and capacity building in US cities. We can learn a lot from this!
Why do advisory organisations approach evidence differently? My new @policysociety.bsky.social paper explores the concept of evidence culture and how it shapes organisations' evidentiary standards (what evidence is seen as legitimate, valuable and actionable).
academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...
The #bicycle is a simple, convivial tool that grants people freedom from relying on the market for essential elements of their lives - echoing #firstnation values. That's why we co-founded the #UvABikeKitchen, a community space to learn repair. Read more: shorturl.at/QToyr
An infographic on the worlds major cities and how walkable they are within the confines of a 15 minute zone. Auckland is the best in Oceania region, ahead of Melbourne and Sydney.
@benakl.bsky.social have you seen this one on 15min cities from Nature? (I don't have access - I nicked it from my dad's email subscription)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We’re on #Substack!
Click here to read about our recent experience in #Zurich at the #Cycling #Research Board Annual Meeting (#CRBAM)👉https://urbancyclinginstitute.substack.com/p/key-take-aways-from-crbam-2024?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=
Excited to say Urban Cycling Institute is now on Substack! Please join us to keep up to date with all of our projects, events and latest research in urban cycling and sustainable mobility at: urbancyclinginstitute.substack.com
urbancyclinginstitute.substack.com/p/key-take-a...
#Superblocks are quite the buzzword in #urbanplanning these days. However, the authors of the paper below found that our understanding of the #health benefits of these treatments lacks empirical evidence.
The lack of a standard definition may play a role.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The pathway to a brighter transport future - Setting the Scene
www.urbantransportgroup.org/party-confer...
Extract from report, summarised in post
IPPR’s new report identifies 9 ‘foundational assets’ for healthy places:
1. Space for sport & exercise
2. Libraries
3. Green spaces
4. Youth clubs/centres
5. Swimming pools
6. Safe streets
7. Cycle network
8. Public transport
9. Community assets
Austerity undermined many of these building blocks.
