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The Bicycle Made for Cities
If you lined up every bicycle ever built since the 1880s, the vast majority would look much like the one above. Easily 75%. It would probably be black, with three speeds, a chainguard and coaster...
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Massive Passenger Increase After Bikes Allowed Free on Trains
So what exactly happens when you're a major train operator and you suddenly make it free for passengers to take bikes on your trains? We know that some rail operators in various parts of the world...
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The Life-Sized City TV Series
While Copenhagenize Design Co. focuses on working with client cities around the world, our CEO, Mikael Colville-Andersen, is embarking on an exciting new project in parallel with his work in our...
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Hygge and the Firepit of Transport
The concept of "hygge" is, by all accounts, all the rage this year. A slough of books about “how to hygge” are on the market in the UK alone this year. The Guardian even endevoured to produce a good...
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Bike Helmets - Something Rotten in the State of Denmark
I took part in a radio debate last week. Four guests and a journalist. In that forty-five minutes, I experienced a number of things including, but not limited to, the anti-intellectualisation of our...
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Malmö's Bicycle House is Open - Cykelhuset OhBoy
Jennie Fasth is a cyclist, bicycle advocate and freelance writer based in Malmö, Sweden. She is currently a student at the University of Lund, studying geographic information systems. She is working...
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Berlin - A New Hope
This article is written by Copenhagenize Design Company's former urban planner, Leon Legeland. Originally from the least bicycle friendly city in Germany, Wiesbaden, he has lived, studied and worked in...
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Copenhagen's Fantastic & Stupid Bicycle Bridge Inderhavnsbro
Copenhagen's Inderhavnsbro - Inner Harbour Bridge - Photo: City of CopenhagenIt's no secret that Copenhagen continues to invest massively in bicycle infrastructure like no other city on the planet. The...
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Arrogance of Space - Copenhagen - Hans Christian Andersen Boulevard
The City of Copenhagen released its latest mode share data yesterday and the numbers look fantastic.62% of residents in the City ride a bicycle daily to work or education in the city. 21% take public...
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Egyptian Cycling History - Then and Now - Subversive Photo Series
In this latest installment of our "Subversive Cycling Photos" series, we travel to Egypt. The same utterings are heard here as most other places. About how "it's too hot to cycle" and "oh, but we never...
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Bicycle Superhighways in Copenhagen Capital Region
The Bicycle Superhighway Network in Copenhagen Capital Region. Orange: Built. Black: Planned and financed. Dotted: Planned but awaiting financing.The Capital Region of Denmark is continuing its...
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Arrange a Svajerløb Cargo Bike Race!
Last week in Barcelona, the inagural svajerløb cargo bike race was held on a sunny Sunday in the Poble Nou neighbourhood. It was event organised pro bono by Copenhagenize Design Co's office in...
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Traffic Safety Orgs Speak for Themselves - Not the Rest of Us
Classic traffic safety organisation narrative. "Stop cycling".By Stephanie PattersonWith Mikael Colville-AndersenIn the diverse world of traffic planning, advocacy and various movements for liveable...
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Cycling with Disabilities and Injuries
I haven't been on a bicycle for 7 days. The reason? A couple of cracked ribs. I've tried each and every day to cycle, but it hasn't been possible. When a simple cough is enough to bring tears to your...
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Meteoric Rise in Bicycle Traffic in Copenhagen
The news out of Copenhagen this week is good. Apart from an arsenal of over 20 permanent sensors dedicated to counting bicycle traffic, the City of Copenhagen also performs comprehensive bi-annual...
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The Car Empire Strikes Back - Complete Anthology
We've been compiling a list of examples of how the automobile industry, since the bicycle returned to the public consciousness around 2006-2007, have been striking back. Using their advertising...
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When a Public Space Doesn't Want You - Kvæsthusmolen
A late-summer evening in Copenhagen. Copenhagenize Design Company arranged for The Bicycle Chef - Cykelkokken to serve up a delicious snack for our guests from the City of Bordeaux, including Mayors...
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Electric Cars: Where Will the Energy Come From?
Copenhagenize Design Company Guest Author, Jason Henderson, is Professor of Geography & Environment at San Francisco State University, visiting Copenhagen this Fall on a research sabbatical...
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Copenhagenizing the City of Almetyevsk / Альме́тьевск
A freshly paved cycle track in Almetyevsk along the city's main street, Lenina.What a difference a year makes. In October 2015, Copenhagenize Design Company was hired by the City of Almetyevsk, in...
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Copenhagenize Slopes - Iconic Architectural Topography, Housing, and Public...
Copenhagenize Slopes 1,2,3. Reversing the Arrogance of Space on Hans Christian Andersen Boulevard in Copenhagen and re-demoractizing the space with 507 apartments of 50 m2, an urban park at street...
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From the Bicycle Snake to Chinese Vanity Project
Let's just get to it, shall we.Cyclists are not random boxes of corn flakes that you store up on a shelf, out of sight - out of mind.They are urban citizens contributing as much as the next - often...
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Bikes Beat Metro in Copenhagen
Originally published on April 4, 2014Like anyone interested in city life, we like to keep our eyes on the street life of our city. Currently however, the City of Copenhagen is planning to take some...
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7550 New Bike Parking Spots at Copenhagen Central Station
For all of Copenhagen's badassness as a bicycle city, there remains one thing that the City still completely sucks at. Bicycle parking at train stations. At Copenhagen Central Station there are only...
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The Bicycle Bridges of Copenhagen
By Mia Riefkohl / Copenhagenize Design CompanyThe City of Copenhagen minds the gaps. Over the past decade, we have witnessed radical changes in the connectivity of Copenhagen, a city bisected by a...
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Copenhagen Rolls out the Harbour Circle
By Mark Werner / Copenhagenize Design CompanyCopenhagen takes no time to rest when it comes to the bicycle, just months after officially kicking off Havneringen, the Harbour Circle project, the route...
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