VIRTUAL: Livable Cities – New York

Abstract

In cities, one of the important yet invisible aspects of life is the variety and opportunity found in the differently-mobile ranges of movement between the average walking speed and the lower speeds of automobiles below 40 km/m. The paper considers how we may collectively arrive at better integration of the various vectors of movement in the city today and reflect at the idea of succession in an urban context of movement. Globally attitudes and acceptance for this range of speed of human movement in cities, which I will collectively call the realm of ‘glidology’ is a paradoxical time and space; it speaks of innovations in technologies, such as the near-future visions of gyroscope enabled unicycle couriers and the growing wave of the ebike movement, these mobility choices exist yet are largely invisible because they don’t technically exist in many jurisdictions as accepted forms of movement. Occupying the grey zones of space in the city, the spaces of glidology occupy and reveal the many layers of space on the paved surfaces of the city.