Cycle Cities

What does a future without fossil fuels look like?

Design
Finlay Heanue
Curtis Kenwright
Matthew King

Illustration
Finlay Heanue

A busy road generates power through people riding bikes or walking.

Cycling and walking are the dominant forms of transportation.

Clean energy is generated from the bikes and pressure plates in the pavement.

A bike parking station. The energy generated on the bike ride is used to power the city.
A gym in a hospital, gyms are throughout the city. The exercise machines generate energy used to power the building.
Bikes have batteries to collect energy from moving.

Gyms are powered from the kinetic movement of exercise machines.

Children learn to ride bikes in schools.

Children riding bikes in school
Sketch of a busy intersection with bikes instead of cars
Sketch of a busy road with bikes instead of cars

“40% of cancer cases are preventable”(Frontier Economics, 2023)

Preventative health is “approaches and activities aimed at reducing the likelihood that a disease or disorder will affect an individual” (The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, 2023). For example, Exercise.

Walking and cycling are a sustainable alternative to cars.

Bicycles

We were inspired by Amsterdam. The safe cycle paths made parents more likely to teach their kids to cycle at a young age, meaning future generations are able to reap the benefits of cycling.

An Amsterdam canal with a bike

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