Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Campus transportation planning adds bicycling: not just bicycles but bicycle lanes and other accommodations

Emory University employees David Knight and Casey Brinsfield ...
Emory University employees David Knight and Casey Brinsfield ride a bike borrowed from the schools bank of loaner bicycles to a meeting on the school's campus Friday, July 18, 2008 in Atlanta. The Atlanta school is selling discounted bicycles to students and faculty, adding bike lanes to campus roads and stocking bikes that can be borrowed free of charge. The university is pushing its $250,000 'Bike Emory' initiative, launched a year ago, in hopes of convincing students and faculty that the eco-friendly bikes are a better alternative to their four-wheeled, gas-guzzling counterparts. (AP Photo)

Other universities are doing similar kinds of initiatives, paying greater attention to bicycling as part of a broader focus on mobility.

Bike Emory

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