Putting the Brakes on Bike Theft: Design Exemplars for Secure Cycling

Two new exhibitions at New London Architecture will launch a free online design resource featuring over a hundred case studies of cycling facilities and schemes from around the world, aimed at helping architects to "get smart quick" about bike theft and design secure cycling infrastructure for our cities.

Putting the brakes on bike theft exhibits new bike parking designs that makes life easier for cyclists and harder for bike thieves.

Cyclised Cities shares concepts that foster the evolution of civilised cycling cities.

Over the last decade city cycling has increased year on year.

Increases in cycle use have meant increases in cycle theft, the greatest deterrent to cycling after fears about road safety.

However, in recent years a multi-agency address to this problem has helped catalyse a secure cycling revolution.

Figures from Transport for London for the period 2005 to 2008 show, in London, cycling increasing and cycle theft decreasing for the first time this century helping to make our cities safer, healthier, cleaner and quieter places to live.