Course Summary
Unraveling the Cycling City is a course that explores the urban design and infrastructure required for creating a bike-friendly city. You will learn about the benefits of cycling, planning and design considerations, and how to advocate for cycling in your community.Key Learning Points
- Discover the benefits of cycling and how it can transform urban spaces
- Learn about the infrastructure and design elements required for a bike-friendly city
- Understand the planning process and how to advocate for cycling in your community
Job Positions & Salaries of people who have taken this course might have
- Urban Planner
- USA: $60,000 - $90,000
- India: ₹5,00,000 - ₹10,00,000
- Spain: €25,000 - €40,000
- Bicycle Coordinator
- USA: $40,000 - $60,000
- India: ₹2,50,000 - ₹5,00,000
- Spain: €18,000 - €30,000
- Sustainable Transportation Advocate
- USA: $40,000 - $60,000
- India: ₹2,50,000 - ₹5,00,000
- Spain: €18,000 - €30,000
Related Topics for further study
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the benefits of cycling for urban spaces and personal health
- Identify key design elements and infrastructure required for a bike-friendly city
- Develop strategies for advocating for cycling in your community
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- No prior knowledge or experience required
- Access to a computer and internet connection
Course Difficulty Level
BeginnerCourse Format
- Online
- Self-paced
- Video lectures
- Quizzes
Similar Courses
- Sustainable Urban Development
- Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities
- Future Cities
Related Education Paths
Notable People in This Field
- Transportation Consultant
- Filmmaker and Urbanist
- Urban Designer and Cycling Advocate
Related Books
Description
Obscured by its apparent simplicity, cycling is a complex phenomenon. Being an almost perfect human-machine hybrid, cycling is deeply rooted in a plethora of socio-technological systems. Around the world cycling is embraced as an important ingredient to tackle a wide variety of individual and societal challenges. The Netherlands is often seen as an ideal living lab, because cycling has retained its significant share of mobility throughout the country. At the same time, there are large differences in developments across time and space, that allows for a better understanding of potential causal relations. This is also increasingly recognized by (inter)national top tier researchers from many different academic fields. They are uncovering reciprocal relations of cycling with spatial, ecological, historical, social, cultural, economic, biological and political structures. Unraveling the Cycling City bundles the state-of-the-art knowledge that emerges from research and practice on the Dutch cycling system. As such, it provides an easily accessible platform to learn about important causes and effects, to open minds for the complexity of the entire system and to support group deliberations around the world.
Knowledge
- Re-imagine the street as a space for negotiation and social interaction
- Compare and contrast the experience of cycling to the experience of driving and walking
- Explore the historical development of Dutch cycling
- Examine the reciprocal interactions between land use and transport and identify how cycling fits into these systems
Outline
- Week 1: A Historical Perspective
- Introduction by Marco te Brömmelstroet
- Week 1 Intro: A Historical Perspective - Is cycling in the Dutch genes?
- How the Dutch got their cycle paths
- Paper discussion with Marco te Brömmelstroet
- Why We Cycle: Egalitarian Society
- Paper discussion with Marco te Brömmelstroet
- Week 1 wrap-up with Pascal Boontje
- Meet the team
- Keep notes to prepare for your final assignment!
- Content of Unraveling the Cycling City
- Weekly discussion calls on Thursdays & Saturdays
- New: Spanish course track
- Support and feedback
- First, a bit of history...
- How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
- Contested Spaces: Bicycle Lanes in Urban Europe, 1900-1995
- Top down or bottom up?
- The Prime Minister bikes to work
- The rise and decline of national habitus: Dutch cycling culture and the shaping of national similarity
- Is cycling in the Dutch genes?
- How the Dutch got their cycle paths
- How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
- Contested Spaces: Bicycle Lanes in Urban Europe, 1900-1995
- Why We Cycle: Egalitarian Society
- The Prime Minister bikes to work
- The rise and decline of national habitus: Dutch cycling culture and the shaping of national similarity
- The Historical Perspective
- Week 2: The urban environment
- Week 2 Intro with Meredith Glaser
- Why the Dutch ride bikes
- Paper discussion with Luca Bertolini
- Paper discussion with Lucas Harms
- Week 2 wrap-up with Marco te Brömmelstroet
- Cycling by the numbers
- Comparing Cycling in European Countries
- Urban development without more mobility by car – Lessons from Amsterdam, a multimodal urban region
- Cycling, the long and short of it
- Synergies from Improved Cycling-Transit Integration
- As Easy As Riding A Bike:Â The Dutch supermarket
- Spatial and social variations in cycling patterns in a mature cycling country exploring differences and trends
- Why the Dutch ride bikes
- Comparing Cycling in European Countries
- Urban development without more mobility by car – Lessons from Amsterdam, a multimodal urban region
- Synergies from Improved Cycling-Transit Integration
- As Easy As Riding A Bike:Â The Dutch supermarket
- Spatial and social variations in cycling patterns in a mature cycling country exploring differences and trends
- The urban environment
- Week 3: The street within a network
- Week 3 Intro by Marco te Brömmelstroet
- World's biggest bicycle study: The Bike Study Week in Amsterdam Region
- Paper Discussion with George Liu
- Presentation by George Liu
- Week 3 wrap-up by Meredith Glaser
- Behaviour on routes and at intersections
- What happens if you turn off the traffic lights?
- Urban Design: Is there a Distinctive View from the Bicycle?
- Space, speed, and fairness
- Arrogance of Space
- Is there such a thing as a ‘fair’ distribution of road space?
- Street design compared (optional)
- Practitioners' perspective on user experience and design of cycle highways
- World's biggest bicycle study: The Bike Study Week in Amsterdam Region
- What happens if you turn off the traffic lights?
- Urban Design: Is there a Distinctive View from the Bicycle?
- Is there such a thing as a ‘fair’ distribution of road space?
- Practitioners' perspective on user experience and design of cycle highways
- The street within a network
- Week 4: The co-evolution of design and behavior
- Week 4 Intro by Meredith Glaser
- Cyclists behaving badly - Understanding cyclist disobedience in Amsterdam
- Paper Discussion with George Liu
- Why We Cycle excerpt: Interaction
- Paper Discussion with Marco te Brömmelstroet
- Wrapping up Chapter 4
- Conclusion
- Thinking critically about cyclist behavior and traffic rules
- Giving way to deviant behaviour
- Scofflaw bicycling: Illegal but rational
- What is Social Capital?
- The Handicap of a Head Start
- Towards a pattern language for cycling environments: merging variables and narratives
- Cyclists behaving badly - Understanding cyclist disobedience in Amsterdam
- Giving way to deviant behavior
- Scofflaw bicycling: Illegal but rational
- Why We Cycle excerpt: Interaction
- The Handicap of a Head Start
- Towards a pattern language for cycling environments
- The co-evolution of design and behaviour
- Week 5: Final assignment
Summary of User Reviews
Unraveling the Cycling City is a highly rated course on Coursera that explores the challenges and opportunities of urban cycling. Users praise the course for its engaging content, useful resources, and expert instructors.Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course
Users were particularly impressed with the course's emphasis on real-world case studies that showcase successful cycling infrastructure in cities around the world.Pros from User Reviews
- Engaging and informative content
- Expert instructors with practical experience
- Useful resources and case studies
- Great for beginners and experienced cyclists alike
Cons from User Reviews
- Some users found the course content to be too basic
- A few technical issues with the online platform
- Limited opportunities for interaction with instructors and other students
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