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Living City Streets: The Global Drive to Reclaim Routes for Cyclists & Pedestrians

In the mid-1900s, Dutch citizens of Delft were sick of cars driving too fast down their narrow residential streets. The city was slow to respond, so residents took matters into their own hands. ...

Desire Paths: When Design and the Needs of Users Diverge

These days, "user experience" tends to refer more to the digital realm than our physical environment, but it's no less relevant to roads and sidewalks than to websites and software. When creating ...

Road Grip: Vietnam’s Golden Bridge Is One Handy Span

You're in good hands when you walk the recently opened Golden Bridge in the Ba Na Hills – two humongous hands carved from stone, to be exact. Some say driving in Vietnam is a gripping ...

Interactive Crossings: Dynamic Street LEDs Respond to Traffic Demands

Designed to appear and disappear in response to the needs of pedestrians, cyclists and drivers, this pedestrian crossing solution aims to make people safer through dynamic activation. The ...

Looping Bicycle Bridge Lets Cyclists Ride Right Over a School Roof

Many a cyclist has fantasized about being able to bike right over the chaos of a city, avoiding traffic, intersections and trouble areas so they can just enjoy the ride. A Dutch architecture firm ...

Creative Crosswalks: Artist Adds Color to Brighten Crossings for Students

Part art project and part urban safety experiment, this series of Funnycross installations in Madrid have been positioned outside a cross section of city schools. Designed by Bulgarian ...

Germany Puts Stoplights in Sidewalks for Distracted Pedestrians

Walkers preoccupied with their mobile devices as they traverse Augsburg, Germany, are starting to notice something new in their peripheral vision: sidewalk-embedded traffic lights designed to ...

Small Footprints: London’s First Pedestrian & Bicycle Bridges

Bucking the trend of extravagant elevated parks, this new walking-and-cycling-only bridge uses tight spirals on either side to minimize land usage with a slender tension-supported pathway ...

Fast Track: New High-Speed Pedestrian Lanes Live in Liverpool

An experimental pedestrian fast lane system deployed in England allows speedy walkers to circumvent gawking tourists and window shoppers. Implemented by retailer Argos adjacent to a ...

Wayfinding in Subways: 3D Blueprints Show NYC Tunnel Systems

Inspired by detailed three-dimensional maps of Hong Kong subway stations, a New York artist has painstakingly documented and rendered a gorgeous series of helpful underground ...

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