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For the first time since the pandemic, ITDP and MOBILIZE Program partners convened in-person in Bogotá, Colombia for multiple days of knowledge sharing, hands-on...
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This World Bicycle Day, it is important to share and explore lessons from a city that is making tangible efforts to make cycling safe,...
Creating A ‘Kingdom for Bicycles’ in Yichang, China
Over the past two decades, ITDP China has been working closely with major cities to advance a vision for urban cycling, and implement bicycle...
Bogotá, Colombia’s Approach to Safe, Sustainable, and Accessible Transport
As with many global cities, the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic has led Bogotá to rethink its approach to sustainable mobility, improve access and...
Exploring the Cycling Gender Gap in China’s Cities
We know that there persists a gender gap in cycling that prevents women and girls from choosing cycling as a primary transport mode in...
The Eight Elements of a Cycling City
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored long-standing inequity and unsustainability in how we move around our cities. As more and more urban dwellers chose cycling as...
Building Cycling Cities in Rio de Janeiro and Recife, Brazil
Brazil’s cities, like Rio de Janeiro and Recife, have long been faced with unequal patterns of urban development and sprawl that have made mobility...
The Dawn of India’s Walking and Cycling Revolution
The global pandemic redefined our relationship with our city streets and urban mobility. As COVID-19 brought many cities to a halt, people all over...
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