Can bicycles be the catalyst to revive our modern cities?
Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry in bicycles, Streetflava
You experience a city very differently when you’re exploring it on a bicycle. Cars promote a sense of aggressive, anti-social behaviour where urban commuting on a bicycle opens your eyes to see your city in a refreshingly social way.
Genre De Vie is a documentary that focuses mainly on city’s that already promote a pro bicycle lifestyle. This coming from a viewpoint, that the bicycle is a positive development on the social and environmental structure and hence of profound effect on the living quality of its inhabitance. [via]
So can the simple bicycle be the sought after catalyst to revive the social fabric of a city like Cape Town? We think so – and there are some exciting, soon-to-be-launched developments that we are involved with that you may find right up your street too.
Check out the Camissa Bicycles Facebook page – a Cape Town-based single speed / fixed gear bicycle brand.
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28. Aug, 2011
An added bonus is the improvement in people’s health as a result of the exercise. That can lead to significant savings which can be chanelled back into promoting biking instead of cars.