CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
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CCE is 16years old!
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It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
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Well that was the gist of JG's trailer for this - he mentioned 'designed for cars' (R4 9:00)
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Jonathan Glancey investigates the forces that shape the design of our everyday buildings, and how this could be improved.
In this episode, he finds out how we lost the art of designing beautiful places - and how it is being rediscovered.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03j9ypj
And later on iplayer
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@urbaneprofessor: If you're interested in the debate on urban design and architecture on @BBCRadio4 right now read my piece here:
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It was an excellent listen. Nice to hear the housebuilding and architecture industry laying the blame for dull housing culs-de-sac built around human unfriendly networks of distributor roads at the door of poor traffic planning in the 70s and 80s. Fascinating to hear that the requirement to turn a bin lorry in a cul-de-sac is one of the main reasons housing estates are planned like they are.
I'm not convinced that most recent design is as good as the presenter was making out - largely it still often feels designed around the car.
Part 3 about to start -
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