Why so many people in Japan ride bicycles | Leo Martial | TEDxYNU
Leo Martial |
TEDxYNU
• November 2019
Léo told us a story about the bicycle culture in Japan using his own experience living here, in Yokohama, as a PhD student. Léo Martial was born in France in 1987. He graduated from the Ecole spéciale d’architecture in Paris in 2010 with a major in architecture. His interest in transportation, especially railway and bicycle, was born during his first contact with Japan when he was an exchange student at Tokai University in 2008. He freelanced as an architect in 2012 and mainly worked for the French railway company SNCF, where he designed and renovated several train stations around Paris for four years. Laureate of the Japanese government scholarship in 2017, he is now pursuing more research at Yokohama National University, studying the synergy of train and bicycle through comparative analysis between Japan and Europe.
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