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Transport For Londoners is a blog where I am sharing the research for my final graduating project of my Masters in Service Design at the Royal College of Art, exploring the question: how to get more people cycling around London?
This inital research question - which will develop a narrower focus during the course of the project - stems from my own positive experience using a bicycle to move around the city over the last ten years, and was inspired by a bike-packing trip I made last year to Copenhagen, passing through The Netherlands, and Northern Germany on my way.
On a strategic level, it is also a response to the Mayor of London's Draft Transport Strategy published in June 2017 and updated in March this year, which sets out a vision for cycling in the capital to increase by 15% by 2041 (estimate by London Cycling Campaign, 2018), and for car journeys to be cut by 3 million each day, in order to address the increasing problems of air pollution, congestion, inactivity and obesity, public health costs and population growth.
The broader philisophical narrative for this project was laid down last summer whilst writing my disseration - Cities For a Small Planet and other urban tales - which took both a personal and critical view on why and how we might better design the future of our human habitats. It's available to read online.
If you're curious, you can check out my other work on my website - and catch up with me on twitter and instagram.
This inital research question - which will develop a narrower focus during the course of the project - stems from my own positive experience using a bicycle to move around the city over the last ten years, and was inspired by a bike-packing trip I made last year to Copenhagen, passing through The Netherlands, and Northern Germany on my way.
On a strategic level, it is also a response to the Mayor of London's Draft Transport Strategy published in June 2017 and updated in March this year, which sets out a vision for cycling in the capital to increase by 15% by 2041 (estimate by London Cycling Campaign, 2018), and for car journeys to be cut by 3 million each day, in order to address the increasing problems of air pollution, congestion, inactivity and obesity, public health costs and population growth.
The broader philisophical narrative for this project was laid down last summer whilst writing my disseration - Cities For a Small Planet and other urban tales - which took both a personal and critical view on why and how we might better design the future of our human habitats. It's available to read online.
If you're curious, you can check out my other work on my website - and catch up with me on twitter and instagram.
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| Small Pink Book and other urban tales, 2017 |
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