{"id":333,"date":"2016-09-22T23:34:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T15:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/?p=333"},"modified":"2016-10-05T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:22:20","slug":"defragment-bike-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/defragment-bike-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejuvenate Bike Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Harbourfront Cycleway was advocated on Hong Kong Island for 5 years as a pioneer of public initiative for injecting bike infrastructure into this city, while the advocates found difficulties to establish such system on <strong><em>Kowloon Peninsula<\/em><\/strong>. Streets and public spaces weave to form <em>inland networks<\/em> but district-crossing cyclists suffer from hilly terrains, dangerous highway and pedestrian traffic, distance from public transport access, and biasing urban development history.<\/p>\n<p>The thesis identifies topographical and infrastructural hurdles, investigates congested and mismanaged key black spots discouraging bike movement, and inverts these bike &#8220;voids&#8221; into bike transport hubs as re-connections to encourage bike-commuting populations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/bikemap_001s.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-611\" src=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/bikemap_001s-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"bikemap_001s\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/bikemap_001s-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/bikemap_001s-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/bikemap_001s-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/bikemap_001s-210x210.jpg 210w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/bikemap_001s.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BikeMaps. Accessed September 22, 2016. https:\/\/bikemaps.org\/@22.3124829,114.1888046,14z.<\/p>\n<p>Traces of Bike Movement in Kowloon Peninsula<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/621.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-638\" src=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/621-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"621\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/621-300x290.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/621-768x742.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/621-1024x990.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/621-210x203.jpg 210w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/621.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cykelslangen Cycle Bridge Copenhagen (Denmark), 2014. In <em>CCCB REVEALS BEST PROJECTS FOR THE EUROPEAN PRIZE FOR URBAN PUBLIC SPACE 2016<\/em>. July 4, 2016. Accessed September 22, 2016. http:\/\/cdnimd.worldarchitecture.org\/extuploadb\/621.jpg.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/sf_slope_big.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-334\" src=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/sf_slope_big-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"sf_slope_big\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/sf_slope_big-300x250.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/sf_slope_big-768x640.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/sf_slope_big-210x175.jpg 210w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/sf_slope_big.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Streets Colored by Slope in San Francisco, CA, USA.&#8221; Map. The Steeps Of San Francisco In Search Of The City&#8217;s Steepest Street. November 10, 2009. Accessed September 22, 2016. http:\/\/www.datapointed.net\/media\/2010\/08\/sf_slope_big.jpg.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harbourfront Cycleway was advocated on Hong Kong Island for 5 years as a pioneer of public initiative for injecting bike infrastructure into this city, while the advocates found difficulties to establish such system on Kowloon Peninsula. 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