UVA Amsterdam - Unraveling the Cycling City
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Unraveling the Cycling City at Coursera Overview
Duration | 23 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Unraveling the Cycling City at Coursera Highlights
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Unraveling the Cycling City at Coursera Course details
- 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.
Unraveling the Cycling City at Coursera Curriculum
Week 1: A Historical Perspective
Introduction by Marco te Brommelstroet
Week 1 Intro: A Historical Perspective - Is cycling in the Dutch genes?
How the Dutch got their cycle paths
Paper discussion with Marco te Brommelstroet
Why We Cycle: Egalitarian Society
Paper discussion with Marco te Brommelstroet
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: Thursdays & Saturdays
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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 Brommelstroet
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: 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: 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 Brommelstroet
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 Brommelstroet
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
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