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Bikes are for flying, bike lanes are for not dying: : a study on topological accessibility, collisions and real estate speculation oriented urban space production
| Resumo: | This paper is based upon findings from a master’s research on bikeability on the urban configuration of the city of Natal, Brazil. Bikeability is understood as a set of urban environmental qualities that are favourable to the use of bicycles as an efficient, low cost, non-pollutant and healthy transport mode. The increase in adhesion to this transport mode and the improval on the quality of their travels depends on the presence and quality of the cycling infrastructure, which is cited in several national surveys as the most urgent demand declared by cyclists (LABMOB UFRJ; TRANSPORTE ATIVO, 2018, 2022). In the study that generated the argument presented here, relations between urban form, topological accessibility and cycling infrastructure were investigated as fostering bikeability and traffic safety. The present infrastructure was verified to be insufficient in terms os extension, type and location, the last due to incompatibility with the locations of high volume traffic, where space is disputed and cyclists become vulnerable to collisions, concentrating, instead, in the most economically privileged urban areas, despite most cyclists having low incomes and living in the poor urban areas. |
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| Autores principais: | Knox Figueira, Agatha |
| Outros Autores: | Bezerra Faria Trigueiro, Edja |
| Assunto: | sintaxe do espaço ciclomobilidade morfologia urbana geoprocessamento space syntax cyclomobility urban morphology geoprocessing |
| Ano: | 2026 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | unknown |
| Instituição associada: | Portuguese-Language Network of Urban Morphology |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Revista de Morfologia Urbana |
| Resumo: | This paper is based upon findings from a master’s research on bikeability on the urban configuration of the city of Natal, Brazil. Bikeability is understood as a set of urban environmental qualities that are favourable to the use of bicycles as an efficient, low cost, non-pollutant and healthy transport mode. The increase in adhesion to this transport mode and the improval on the quality of their travels depends on the presence and quality of the cycling infrastructure, which is cited in several national surveys as the most urgent demand declared by cyclists (LABMOB UFRJ; TRANSPORTE ATIVO, 2018, 2022). In the study that generated the argument presented here, relations between urban form, topological accessibility and cycling infrastructure were investigated as fostering bikeability and traffic safety. The present infrastructure was verified to be insufficient in terms os extension, type and location, the last due to incompatibility with the locations of high volume traffic, where space is disputed and cyclists become vulnerable to collisions, concentrating, instead, in the most economically privileged urban areas, despite most cyclists having low incomes and living in the poor urban areas. |
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