Here is this week’s collection of news and views for urbanists. In honour of June being bike month, I’m focusing this edition on cycling related articles and posts.

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  Five Innovations Improving Cycling in Cities: As the bicycle becomes an increasing priority in cities, countless innovations have followed. (Part of This Big City’s Bike Week series of posts)

• Bicycling’s gender gap: It’s the economy, stupid: Why don’t more women in the U.S. ride bikes? Hint: it’s not just about fear and fashion. Elly Blue breaks down the bikenomics of the situation. (Grist)

• Danish Architect Jan Gehl on Good Cities for Bicycling: Bicyclists represent a different and somewhat rapid form of foot traffic, but in terms of sensory experiences, life and movement, they are part of the rest of city life. (SF.StreetsBlog)

• The City and Bikes: Rubber Meets Road: For every Spandexed obsessive tucked on a $3,000 carbon fiber frame you’ll see 100 people of every imaginable background just trying to get to work, do their job, have fun with their kids, safely spin from A to B. (Wall Street Journal)

• America’s Reviving Its Highway System for Cyclists: The United States has added new routes to its national bike system for the first time in 30 years. (GOOD)