Derlie Mateo-Babiano

Dynamics of bike sharing in Washington, DC and Brisbane, Australia: Implications for policy and planning

ABSTRACT The rapid growth in public bike-sharing programs (PBSPs) worldwide has left numerous research gaps, particularly related to environmental benefits, social benefits, and data from systems in cities with historically low bicycle ridership. We offer a battery of metrics and present results on their application to Washington, DC’s Capital Bikeshare and Brisbanes CityCycle. These metrics, which examine neighborhood performance and temporal and spatial ridership trends, initiate discussions on the policies and planning that make for a successful PBSP. We found that providing helmets, expanding hours of operation, and adding stations in suburbs with few or no stations leads to higher ridership.

The Evolution of a Masterplan: Brisbane's South Bank, 1991–2012

South Bank is now a well-established part of Brisbanes lifestyle and entertainment scene. From the preparation of Expo 88 as part of Australias bicentennial celebrations to the redevelopment of the site post-Expo, South Bank has been intensely masterplanned. This qualitative research is a longitudinal study of the evolution of the South Bank masterplan described by tracking the masterplanning responses to crises. The evolution of South Bank masterplanning is related through its leaders who participated in a semi-structured telephone interview. The interviews and archival masterplans chronologically illustrated the responses to crises and effects of masterplanning for certainty and uncertainty.

The Small World Of Stakeholder Groups:Cascading Concepts For Urban Change

This research seeks to understand why some stakeholder groups adopt novel urban design notions and others tend to lag in the uptake of these ideas. Key stakeholder groups participated in a semantic differential task of bipolar urban design qualities. A concept mapping task revealed those groups who aligned in their concept of good urban places and by implication, those that differed. The results showed that architects and planners are early adopters of urban design concepts, engineers, developers and the community are an early majority of adopters and landscape architects and councillors are the late majority. A small world metaphor offers a model for the spread of ideas between groups.