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Visiting the Embacher Collection
We were told that collecting bicycle is dangerous. Every bicycle has several stories, a story of production, a story of cultural context and manifold stories of use during its lifetime. So collecting bicycles is also always about collecting stories and meaning, a cultural endeavour in itself. The Viennese architect Michael Embacher embarked on this journey read more
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A Campus Design & Policy Handbook
Students are known for living on the edge. Their lives are packed full of academic work and socialising, with little time for sleep. This lifestyle demands mobility with 24/7 flexibility on and off campus, all on a student budget. The bicycle is perfect for them. This is why university towns frequently have the largest numbers read more
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A BIKE BASE for Ljubljana
BIKE BASE Trimo Urban Crash Competition Ljubljana is becoming an increasingly cycling-friendly city and new cycling-infrastructure is needed to facilitate this process. As the number of cyclists in Ljubljana (and elsewhere) is growing, the need for cyclist-friendly stops and small repair stations grows along with it. New infrastructure can make more people use bicycles and read more
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Urban Design Studio Velocity
Implementing Vienna’s cycle way network: during the winter semester 2012/2013, the Department of Landscape Planning and Garden Design and IVV TU Wien (Research Center of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering of Vienna University of Technology) organised a practice-oriented design course for students of architecture, civil engineering and spatial planning with a focus on continuing the read more
