In October STC co-founder Shannon Bufton travelled to Tokyo to present a paper to the UIA World Congress of Architects. The paper was co-authored by Shannon and STC's research guru Florian Lorenz.  Thanks to Friends of Nature for contributing funds to help us register for the event. The paper was entitled "Bicycle Lifestyles in Beijing and Their Relevance for a Benign Development of Futu...

Article by Li Muxin in the Chinese Publication - Women of China. Direct Link to the article is here - http://www.womenofchina.com.cn/html/node/1011-1.htm   The community group known as Smarter Than Cars (STC) is trying to show that living and moving around Beijing is better on two wheels. The members stress both the importance of keeping Beijing's bike culture alive and how the city can gro...

It's hard to imagine Beijing without cars as it seems so far away from the direction the city is traveling. For a few thousand Beijing actually had no cars and functioned pretty well. While I can't see that Beijing is going to remove cars anytime in the near future it is still worth thinking about how this city might be shaped in the future and hearing the opinion of the urban visionary Enrique...