Urban spins
Sarajevo, like many cities in the Western Balkans, is a city where urban cycling has been developing at a fast pace in the last decade. The city has started buidling infrastructure but the real catalysts of this positive change have come from civil society organizations and also from the private sector, says Damir Margeta. So what are the challenges to the future development of urban cycling in Sarajevo? What kind of infrastructure is necessary and how can local govenment, civil society organizations and private investors engage and cooperate to improve the cycling experience and make important steps towards making city greener and smarter?
rising to 688,000 in the metropoli- tan area. Sarajevo is perhaps best known for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand which marked the start of the First World War and also as the
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arajevo is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with an urban population of 400,000,
Urban cycling is becoming
an important transportation subsystem in Sarajevo
Wilson’s Promenade by the Miljacka River is a major cycling corridor and venue of the Giro Bambino event
host city of the 16th Winter Olympic Games in 1984. More recently, it has become known due to the war in Bosnia during the early 1990s when the city suffered heavily in the long- est siege in the history of modern warfare. Geographically, it is sur- rounded by mountains and situated
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in the valley of the river Miljacka, where Sarajevo extends in an east- west direction for nearly 15 kilom- eters along the river flow. The specific geographical position
and shape, together with its turbu- lent history during which the city was ruled by the Ottomans, Austro
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