Uncategorized – cycle BOOM http://www.cycleboom.org Design for lifelong health and wellbeing Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:41:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 Update post cycle BOOM http://www.cycleboom.org/update-post-cycle-boom/ http://www.cycleboom.org/update-post-cycle-boom/#respond Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:41:58 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=2368 Welcome back to the cycle BOOM blog. After a busy crescendo to the project, with our conferences in London and Manchester to launch our findings and recommendations in September 2016, we bring you up to date with recent developments and future plans. The final conferences were successful in bringing together a total of more than... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/update-post-cycle-boom/feed/ 0 Tales from Taipei: exploring the evolution of cycling http://www.cycleboom.org/tales-from-taipei-exploring-the-evolution-of-cycling/ http://www.cycleboom.org/tales-from-taipei-exploring-the-evolution-of-cycling/#respond Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:32:18 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1740 This month Justin Spinney reflects on his visit to the Velo-City Global 2016 Conference, Taipei. Recently I enlarged my carbon footprint further (but all that cycling makes up for it, right?) by attending Velo-City Global in Taipei. As you’d expect from a cycling conference, there were many success stories from around the world reporting ‘best practice’... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/tales-from-taipei-exploring-the-evolution-of-cycling/feed/ 0 The ‘Teardrop’ Explodes?* http://www.cycleboom.org/the-teardrop-explodes/ http://www.cycleboom.org/the-teardrop-explodes/#respond Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:20:00 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1718 In an earlier blog we wrote about how researchers on the cycle BOOM team would need to recognise their positionality in relation to both the research setting and our research participants. That is, we need to accept and be transparent about our acknowledged interest in developing more supportive environments for cycling but not to let this... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/the-teardrop-explodes/feed/ 0 Cycling in Harmony: Intergenerational Contact Zones (ICZs) and Cycling http://www.cycleboom.org/cycling-in-harmony-intergenerational-contact-zones-iczs-and-cycling/ http://www.cycleboom.org/cycling-in-harmony-intergenerational-contact-zones-iczs-and-cycling/#respond Fri, 30 Oct 2015 17:09:59 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1603 In a previous blog, I wrote about the current state of cycling in the UK drawing largely upon a previous large-scale study I was involved with – Understanding Walking and Cycling. I highlighted that cycling in most UK cities tends to be dominated by young, male, white, ‘hardened’ cyclists – what I called the ‘velomobile... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/cycling-in-harmony-intergenerational-contact-zones-iczs-and-cycling/feed/ 0 The potential for the return of an endangered species – the older cyclist http://www.cycleboom.org/the-potential-for-the-return-of-an-endangered-species-the-older-cyclist/ http://www.cycleboom.org/the-potential-for-the-return-of-an-endangered-species-the-older-cyclist/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:04:20 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1285 This month’s blog is written by cycle BOOM Co-Investigator, Kiron Chatterjee, and provides a valuable insight into the current state of older cycling in the UK. When we have told some people about our research they have not been able to hide the view that we are wasting our time. They claim older people in the... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/the-potential-for-the-return-of-an-endangered-species-the-older-cyclist/feed/ 3 A velo-mobile future for all without developing ‘affective capacities’ http://www.cycleboom.org/velo-mobile-future-without-developing-affective-capacities/ http://www.cycleboom.org/velo-mobile-future-without-developing-affective-capacities/#respond Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:38:36 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1271 Back in early November 2014 I was given the opportunity to present a paper at the 10th Anniversary Cosmobilities Conference ‘Networked Urban Mobilities’. I took part in an interesting session ‘Imaginaries of Velomobility’ which included talks broadly oriented around exploring the ‘cultures of cycling’ in different social and geographical contexts and how these might evolve.... [Read More]

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