Frankfurt: a new era of urban mobility?
Let's close our eyes and imagine. It would be quite extraordinary when 18.000 cyclists would take over the Autobahn in the direction of Frankfurt am Main to protest the most important...
Leon van Keulen
Leon van Keulen is the creative father of The Suicide Cycle Tour. After having studied Social Sciences (Bsc) and Urban Studies (Msc) in Manchester, Hong Kong and Amsterdam, he tries to share his thoughts and ideas about the sustainable city in his blogs on urban mobility, socioeconomic dynamics and international migration. Leon is currently working as an urban planner in the Rhein-Main area in Germany.
Developing the Inclusive City Centre: Frankfurt am Main
We are off on another adventure in our Frankfurt Urban Development series. After discussing the cycling infrastructure, car centered streets...
Building Inclusive Streets: Reshaping the Schlossstrasse, Frankfurt
Streets exist in many forms. From large, straight and open, to small, winding and secluded. Streets have different meanings to...
The Suicide Cycling Tour: Frankfurt am Main
Every morning the same thing. I hop on my bike and surf the roads while having just one thought on...
Filming Cities: Domino Effect
Beach of Sukhumi (Photo by: Guy Degen) Domino Effect pictures a couple struggling in their search for a common goal,...
Expats in Global Cities: Reshaping the Local
Highly-skilled migrants – expats – entail an ever larger part of the urban society. In the current global economy, cities, regions,...
Filming Cities: TEDx Goes Urban
3 TEDx- talks on governance, slum development and the illness of suburbia. Cities and TEDx (Photo: TEDx) This time, three...
Cities of Social Inequality: A Process to Counter
Social inequality headlined Social inequality is rising around the world. Not only in national and regional terms this inequality is getting...
When Planning Goes Awry: The Case of the Goese Schans
Scaling the Housing Project Planning is a profession. When a new housing development has to be planned, urban planners need...
Dresden Victimised by Fury of UNESCO
Something terrible happened to the city of Dresden, something which is perhaps indescribable and unprecedented anywhere else in the world....
