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Edinburgh – An Aspiring Cycle City

Edinburgh, capital of Scotland, has a population roughly similar to Bremen. Like Bremen, it has an old port area, now de-industrialised and slowly being transformed into a residential area. But other than also having a football team that plays in green and white, the similarities end there. Edinburgh is built around seven hills. Together with the steep descent from the centre to the old port of Leith and the coast, this makes it a particularly hilly city, challenging for cyclists. Despite...

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Frightening the Horses

In 2014, as we began our research into Bremen’s cycling history,  we spent many hours in the Bremen State Archive. It was there that we met Florian Reiß, a historian who was working on a major exhibition about cycling for the Cloppenburg Open Air Museum. We quickly agreed to work together and share our work. A version of  this resulting film, which explores some aspects of the early years of cycling in Bremen with Florian and his colleague Frank Priesner, was screened at the museum as part of the cycling exhibition.

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The Time Is Ripe – Parking Must Cost

The New Bremen Politics of Parking The newly-elected Bremen coalition government has agreed ambitious changes to transport policy, and placed them at the forefront of the coalition agreement (Draft Agreement on Cooperation in a Government Coalition for Bremen, 2019-2023), hereafter referred to as the "Koa Treaty".  Meanwhile this draft has been approved internally by all parties of the coalition and it will thus be put into effect by the coalition parties in the near future. At the same...

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Politicians Moved to Address Sielwall

Sielwall - young men with overly-souped up cars race through it, and local politicians are finally seeing this as the danger that it is. Now the Sielwall and all four roads which lead to the so-called Sielwalleck are to be closed to car traffic up to 80 metres in each direction on weekend nights, thus eliminating through traffic. This is good. But instead of just closing short stretches of road temporarily, the Sielwalleck and the Sielwall need to be reconsidered and redesigned, for every...

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After Corona – The future of public space

The shock of Corona in recent history is only comparable to the attacks of September 11, 2001. In both cases new rules and state powers were established almost overnight. This time it is not a question of fighting terrorism, but of preventing epidemics. But this time, too, almost all areas of public and private life are affected. The Corona crisis will have a particular impact on the future design and use of public space. Because of the need to protect against infection, it is likely that...

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The Struggle for the Right to Mobility

What happens when the Highway Code clashes with fundamental individual rights as formulated by the UN or national constitutions? In Germany, federal legislators’ proposals to resolve the issue failed to get approval at the Federal Council on November 24th 2023. Here we explain some of the contradictions, and what should and could be done.

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