ABSTRACT

There are rare neighborhoods, streets, and venues, where homosexual couples can walk hand-in-hand and not feel self-conscious. Streets provide access to building stock that was not created with bike transport in mind. This chapter presents design speculations, and illustrates examples that have been designed by students of architecture at the University of Tasmania. These designs highlight the possibilities for truly bike-friendly architecture that exist on large undeveloped parts of our cities. The problem from an urban design point of view is that gathering shops in select streets or malls robs other streets in a city of the passive surveillance that shopfronts provide. On brownfield redevelopment sites people can imagine housing stock that encourages bike trips the way taps and basins in houses encourage people to wash their hands after the toilet. Coiling row housing is a bold, and some might say a blunt proposition.