Civic Street : Canal Cycle Route

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Bonner, James and Carballo, Mia and Joshi, Manish and Rowland, Lou (2026) Civic Street : Canal Cycle Route. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. (https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00096527)

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Abstract

The ‘Civic Street: Canal Cycle Route' is a playful and artistic map describing a cycle route from Civic Street to the north of Glasgow city centre encouraging riders to journey along the Forth and Clyde canal in the direction of Falkirk and Stirling, while giving attention to cafes, attractions and transport hubs along the way. The output is a guide, combining artistic interpretations and spatial mapping, and is intended to be utilised along with other forms of more 'exact' mapping (such as mobile phone maps). It seeks to orientate users within the city and utilises a place-based and living lab approach to design, understand and communicate the possibility of active travel (cycling, walking and wheeling) routes (roots) that focuses on Civic Street and Civic House as the hub. Building on emerging relationships with Agile City, who run the Civic House and Glue Factory sites, it draws attention to the rich cultural, historic and ecological assets it encounters that have emerged from the design process, and iterative and embedded relationship nurtured between the university and Agile City. Furthermore, by incorprating cafes, shops and water points on the map it responds to the everyday needs and requests by members of the public engaged with as part of the broader project. Launched in summer 2026, the maps nods to the 4 locations of the Commonwealth Games hosted in Glasgow in July 2026. It is one of a series of output as part of a collection of practices, conversations, walks, events and relationships developed in [IAA/COLIF project wording to be added] undertaken from autumn 2025 thorough to June 2026. It builds on creative mapping work undertaken by lead creator James Bonner, and forms an output as part of his emerging 'Hydro Cycles' project in which he is exploring links between his two main research fields of water and active mobility.

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Bonner, James ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0971-5227, Carballo, Mia, Joshi, Manish and Rowland, Lou;
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